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 with Arab inscription” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:19 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 burner with Arab inscription
Artist not stated in the record

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

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 design of mountain retreat
Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) , Chojiyamachi workshop · 1712-ca. 1731

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

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

Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

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

Incense burner with dragon, phoenix, and sea creatures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

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

Incense Burner with the Eighteen Luohans
Artist not stated in the record · 1645

Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE

Incense burner with figures in landscape
Artist not stated in the record · 1707

Designs for Incense Burners and a Framed Picture
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

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

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

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

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

Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico
F. Celaya · 1823

Bronze thymiaterion (incense burner) with Marsyas
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

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

Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · cyclical dated listed in donor inscription, most probably 1635

Designs for Incense Burners and a Frame
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778
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. 48 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. 254387 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 04:19 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.