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. 14 shown for “Box and utensils for incense ceremony set” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Box and utensils for incense ceremony set
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Japanese Tea Set Motif
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century

Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Design for Ecclesiastical Utensils
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Covered box from an incense set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-1st millennium BCE

Saber with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

Vase from an incense set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Incense burner with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit
Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Screen and Utensils for the Incense Ceremony
Kubo Shunman · 19th century

Ten-round incense game set with arabesque foliage and family crests
Artist not stated in the record · 1856

Set of Utensils for the Tea Ceremony
Kubo Shunman 窪俊満 · 1810s

Traveling set
I.F. · ca. 1760
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. 96 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1522051 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:21 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.