Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 21 shown for “Embalming Coffin” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Embalming Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–625 BCE

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

Coffin of Khnumnakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888 · 1851

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · 1862

Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881 · c. 1865

Embalmer's Bed
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881 · c. 1865

Outer coffin of the Child Myt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1865

Canopic Coffin in the Form of Imseti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Lucretia Mott
Unidentified Artist · 1872

Canopic Coffin in the Form of Duamutef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Nathaniel Coffin
Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · 1828

Canopic Coffin in the form of Hapy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, active 1865 - 1884 · c. 1860 (printed later)

Canopic Coffin in the form of Qebehsenuef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Coffin of the Chantress of Amun Ansenmes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–945 BCE

Brush
Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 26 matched · 24 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 550 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:46 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.