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 “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

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

Censer

Artist not stated in the record · before 1477

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Censer

Design for a Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer

Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th 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
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

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
Censer

Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 525–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

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

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

The Censer

Martin Schongauer · 1470–1491

Public domainThe Met
Cassolettes, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Cassolettes

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

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
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

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
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

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 seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

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
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Putto Frieze of a Plate, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Putto Frieze of a Plate

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Overdoor Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Overdoor Designs

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. 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.