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 burner in the shape of an archaic tripod (ding)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:18 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 burner in the shape of an archaic tripod (ding)

Incense burner in the shape of an archaic tripod (ding)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Incense burner

Incense burner

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

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Michel, French, active 18th century

Arabesque Design

Michel, French, active 18th century · 1780-1784

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze rod tripod stand

Bronze rod tripod stand

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Incense Burners and a Frame, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Incense Burners and a Frame

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

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
Tomb tripod vessel

Tomb tripod vessel

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archaistic tripod censer (ding)

Archaistic tripod censer (ding)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Title Page and Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi, by Ja`far ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Incense Burners and a Cartel Clock Case, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Two Incense Burners and a Cartel Clock Case

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod incense burner with archaistic patterns

Tripod incense burner with archaistic patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

Ornamental Vase Design

Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos in the form of a flying Eros

Terracotta lekythos in the form of a flying Eros

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spittoon or Incense Burner

Spittoon or Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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
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. 116 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. 7484467 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 09:18 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.