OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Embalming Coffin

Embalming Coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–625 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Unidentified Artist

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Khnumnakht

Coffin of Khnumnakht

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

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Lucretia Coffin Mott

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881

Lucretia Coffin Mott

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embalmer's Bed

Embalmer's Bed

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881

Lucretia Coffin Mott

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outer coffin of the Child Myt

Outer coffin of the Child Myt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Lucretia Coffin Mott

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Coffin in the Form of Imseti

Canopic Coffin in the Form of Imseti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Mott, by Unidentified Artist

Lucretia Mott

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Coffin in the Form of Duamutef

Canopic Coffin in the Form of Duamutef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nathaniel Coffin, by Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

Nathaniel Coffin

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Coffin in the form of Hapy

Canopic Coffin in the form of Hapy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, active 1865 - 1884

Lucretia Coffin Mott

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Coffin in the form of Qebehsenuef

Canopic Coffin in the form of Qebehsenuef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin of the Chantress of Amun Ansenmes

Coffin of the Chantress of Amun Ansenmes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brush

Brush

Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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.