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 “Design for a Censer” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Censer
Artist not stated in the record · before 1477

Design for a Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

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

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Censer and Candelabrum Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 525–343 BCE

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

The Censer
Martin Schongauer · 1470–1491

Cassolettes
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

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

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Putto Frieze of a Plate
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Overdoor Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
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. 22313 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2092386 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 2026-09-03 02:31 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.