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. 15 shown for “Part of a cartonnage coffin” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Part of a cartonnage coffin
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Design for a Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Carte-de-visite portrait of Phebe M. Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · 1857

Footboard of Pakherenkhonsu's Cartonnage Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Lucretia Coffin Mott
Joseph Kyle, 1815 - 1863 · 1841

Footboard from a cartonnage coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–332 BCE

Inner Coffin of Nephthys
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Cartonnage fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 100–300 CE

Outer Coffin of Nephthys
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

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

Part of a coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–945 BCE

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

Footboard from the cartonnage case of Heresenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE
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. 144 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 3855819 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 11:38 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.