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. 12 shown for “Lid of Coffin” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Lid of Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Lid
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Lid
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Coffin of Ameny
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Coffin of Wah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Outer coffin of Hapiankhtifi
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

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

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Rishi coffin of Puhorsenbu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter
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. 3458 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 2859961 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 08:39 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.