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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Limestone incense burner on four legs
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

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

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

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

Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Four Incense Burners, a Bracket and an Ornemental Motif
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

Bronze incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico
F. Celaya · 1823

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

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

Incense burner with figures in landscape
Artist not stated in the record · 1707

Title page
Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792 · 1764

Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

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

Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

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

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

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

Emperor Xiaowen and his entourage worshipping the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 522–23

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

Pair of candlestands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

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

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

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