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 peacock and peony” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:31 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 peacock and peony

Incense burner with peacock and peony

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th 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

Incense burner

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

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

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1512

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 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
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 feline head, by Tiwanaku artist(s)

Incense burner with feline head

Tiwanaku artist(s) · 500–1000 CE

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
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-1st millennium BCE

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 · 12th 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 13th–early 14th 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

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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 · 8th century

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 with flowers, by Hu Wenming

Incense burner with flowers

Hu Wenming · early 17th century

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
Bronze incense burner

Bronze incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

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. 311 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. 1523578 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 2026-09-10 03:31 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.