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 “Censer with Animal and Scroll Motifs” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:34 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.
Censer with Animal and Scroll Motifs

Censer with Animal and Scroll Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Lampadaire, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Lampadaire

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

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
Censer

Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Censer, by Martin Schongauer

The Censer

Martin Schongauer · 1470–1491

Public domainThe Met
Suspensoir, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Suspensoir

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

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 Vertical Panel of Ornament, by Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795

Design for a Vertical Panel of Ornament

Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vertical Panel of Ornament, by Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795

Design for a Vertical Panel of Ornament

Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Censer

Elevation of a Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer Frame with Inhabited Vine Scroll

Censer Frame with Inhabited Vine Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier Pascal, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

Chandelier Pascal

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scroll

Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Censer

Design for a Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer, by Chinese

Censer

Chinese · 19th to early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with Pierced Geometric Motifs

Censer with Pierced Geometric Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament and Panel Designs, by Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711

Ornament and Panel Designs

Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711 · ca.1670–ca.1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with birds and animals

Beaker with birds and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ecclesiastical Utensils

Design for Ecclesiastical Utensils

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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. 1779 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. 2615837 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-30 05:34 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.