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. 24 shown for “Angels Swinging Censers” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:26 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.
Angels Swinging Censers

Angels Swinging Censers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Public domainThe Met
Figure of Asia

Figure of Asia

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp or Censer

Lamp or Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Censer

Design for a Censer

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Censer

Design for a Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xantil (deity censer), by Eastern Nahua artist(s)

Xantil (deity censer)

Eastern Nahua artist(s) · 1200–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Vignette with Angels and Instruments of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1670–1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer

Censer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1720

Public domainThe Met
Frame for a small devotional picture, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Frame for a small devotional picture

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1773-1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse of Champagnat

Chasse of Champagnat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Carved Trophies, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Designs for Carved Trophies

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Censing Angels

Plaque with Censing Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–80

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel with censer

Angel with censer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles, by Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953

Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles

Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953 · November 24, 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel

Angel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 138 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 42138 matched · 40 examined · 27 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:26 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.