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 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

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 with Arab inscription

Incense burner with Arab inscription

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

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
Incense burner with design of mountain retreat, by Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) , Chojiyamachi workshop

Incense burner with design of mountain retreat

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

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

Public domainThe Met
Ciboire. Encensoir., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Ciboire. Encensoir.

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes

Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Ciboire. Encensoir., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Ciboire. Encensoir.

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with dragon, phoenix, and sea creatures

Incense burner with dragon, phoenix, and sea creatures

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–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 the Eighteen Luohans

Incense Burner with the Eighteen Luohans

Artist not stated in the record · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes

Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with figures in landscape

Incense burner with figures in landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 1707

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

Designs for Incense Burners and a Framed Picture

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes

Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 11th 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
Pierced Globe

Pierced Globe

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

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

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner or Plinth

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, by F. Celaya

Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico

F. Celaya · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze thymiaterion (incense burner) with Marsyas

Bronze thymiaterion (incense burner) with Marsyas

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

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
Incense burner

Incense burner

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

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
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. 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.