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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Incense Box in the Shape of a Book
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Incense box in the shape of a tanuki
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Incense box in the shape of a turtle
Attributed to Hon'ami Koho (1601-1682) · mid 17th century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1700

Design for an Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Box
Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Ohi ware incense burner in shape of a bronze vessel
Ohi VI Chozaemon (1815-1856) · mid 19th century

Box
Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

Box
Lucien Falize · ca. 1875

Ornamental Vase Design
L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1762

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Piedestal en Balustre. Cassolette. Imposte et Archivolte composés.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Box
John Thurston · 1660–85

Piedestal en Balustre. Cassolette. Imposte et Archivolte composés.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Incense burner in the shape of a goose
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Knife with Jasperware Handle
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1805–15

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

Four Incense Burners, a Bracket and an Ornemental Motif
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99
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.