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 cover” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:06 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 cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and cover

Bowl and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner with Domed Cover

Incense Burner with Domed Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Lidded food cauldron (ding) with painted decoration

Lidded food cauldron (ding) with painted decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner

Incense burner

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

Public domainThe Met
Incense burner (shan lu) with cover

Incense burner (shan lu) with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

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
Incense burner with cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

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 with cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Lampstand converted to incense burner

Lampstand converted to incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

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 cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

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 cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

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 cover

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

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

Incense burner with cover

Artist not stated in the record

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

Public domainThe Met
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 400 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. 263581 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 19:06 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.