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 “Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes” — 62 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Design for an Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th–early 13th century

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century

Classical Scene
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Designs for Incense Burners and a Framed Picture
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Design for Decoration, Tomb in Wood
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Disillusioned Medea
Paulus Bor · ca. 1640

Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner or Plinth
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

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

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

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

Cup with a Poem on Wine
Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi · second half 10th–11th century

Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Arabesque Design
Michel, French, active 18th century · 1780-1784
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. 22 matched · 22 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. 7483511 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-27 16:21 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.