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 “Incense Box in the Shape of a Book” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:39 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.
Incense Box in the Shape of a Book

Incense Box in the Shape of a Book

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense box in the shape of a tanuki

Incense box in the shape of a tanuki

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Incense box in the shape of a turtle, by Attributed to Hon'ami Koho (1601-1682)

Incense box in the shape of a turtle

Attributed to Hon'ami Koho (1601-1682) · mid 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Incense Burner

Design for an Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Johann Christian Sick

Box

Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Ohi ware incense burner in shape of a bronze vessel, by Ohi VI Chozaemon (1815-1856)

Ohi ware incense burner in shape of a bronze vessel

Ohi VI Chozaemon (1815-1856) · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Johann Christian Sick

Box

Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Lucien Falize

Box

Lucien Falize · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Public domainThe Met
Piedestal en Balustre. Cassolette. Imposte et Archivolte composés., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Piedestal en Balustre. Cassolette. Imposte et Archivolte composés.

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by John Thurston

Box

John Thurston · 1660–85

Public domainThe Met
Piedestal en Balustre. Cassolette. Imposte et Archivolte composés., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Piedestal en Balustre. Cassolette. Imposte et Archivolte composés.

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner in the shape of a goose

Incense burner in the shape of a goose

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Jasperware Handle, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Knife with Jasperware Handle

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1805–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense box

Incense box

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Incense Burners, a Bracket and an Ornemental Motif, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Four Incense Burners, a Bracket and an Ornemental Motif

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

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. 2490 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. 7483536 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 20:39 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.