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. 12 shown for “Incense Burner in the Shape of a Melon with Autumn Flowers and Grasses” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Incense Burner in the Shape of a Melon with Autumn Flowers and Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530–40

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu 狩野光信 · late 16th century

Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi
Ja`far ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali · dated 577 AH/1181–82 CE

Incense burner with feline head
Tiwanaku artist(s) · 500–1000 CE

Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1512

Incense Burner in Shape of Lion (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century
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. 290 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 02:49 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.