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 floral pattern” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:15 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 floral patterns

Incense burner with floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th 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 floral patterns

Incense burner with floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th 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 floral pattern

Incense burner with floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th 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
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
Man with a Perfume Burner, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man with a Perfume Burner

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Arabesque Ornament Design

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner (koro)

Incense burner (koro)

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

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
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner (brûle-parfum)

Incense burner (brûle-parfum)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Arabesque Ornament Design, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Title Page: Arabesque Ornament Design

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with flowers, by Hu Wenming

Incense burner with flowers

Hu Wenming · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Title Page

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Console Table Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Console Table Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner (Kōro) in the Shape of a Courtier’s Hat with Scrolling Peonies

Incense Burner (Kōro) in the Shape of a Courtier’s Hat with Scrolling Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1750

Public domainThe Met
Console Table Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Console Table Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Title Page

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th 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. 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. 255181 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 04:15 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.