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. 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

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.
Part of a cartonnage coffin

Part of a cartonnage coffin

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Reliquary

Design for a Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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
Carte-de-visite portrait of Phebe M. Coffin

Carte-de-visite portrait of Phebe M. Coffin

Artist not stated in the record · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footboard of Pakherenkhonsu's Cartonnage Case

Footboard of Pakherenkhonsu's Cartonnage Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Joseph Kyle, 1815 - 1863

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Joseph Kyle, 1815 - 1863 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footboard from a cartonnage coffin

Footboard from a cartonnage coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inner Coffin of Nephthys

Inner Coffin of Nephthys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cartonnage fragment

Cartonnage fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 100–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Outer Coffin of Nephthys

Outer Coffin of Nephthys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

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

Public domainThe Met
Coffin of Khnumhotep

Coffin of Khnumhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Part of a coffin

Part of a coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Footboard from the cartonnage case of Heresenes

Footboard from the cartonnage case of Heresenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

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. 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.