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 “Limestone incense burner on four legs” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:49 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.
Limestone incense burner on four legs

Limestone incense burner on four legs

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

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 · ca. 1530–40

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 · 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
Bronze incense burner

Bronze incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

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
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

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 figures in landscape

Incense burner with figures in landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 1707

Public domainThe Met
Title page, by Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792

Title page

Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

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
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emperor Xiaowen and his entourage worshipping the Buddha

Emperor Xiaowen and his entourage worshipping the Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 522–23

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlestands

Pair of candlestands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Cartouche Designs, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Four Cartouche Designs

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca. 1690

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. 91 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. 1002285 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 20:49 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.