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 three legs” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 21:09 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 three legs

Limestone incense burner on three legs

Artist not stated in the record · 330 BCE–CE 300

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and cover

Bowl and cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone incense burner on three legs

Limestone incense burner on three legs

Artist not stated in the record · 330 BCE–CE 300

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
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 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
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
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
Bronze incense burner

Bronze incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

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
Incense burner (brûle-parfum)

Incense burner (brûle-parfum)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

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

Table Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

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 Domed Cover

Incense Burner with Domed Cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

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
Table Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Table Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Bes

Limestone Bes

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Designs for Cartel Clock Cases, Trophy, and Console Table, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Title Page and Designs for Cartel Clock Cases, Trophy, and Console Table

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Geryon

Limestone Geryon

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

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
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. 112 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. 1003392 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-30 21:09 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.