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 “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

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.
Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes

Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

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
Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner

Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Classical Scene, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Classical Scene

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout

Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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
Ewer

Ewer

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Decoration, Tomb in Wood

Design for Decoration, Tomb in Wood

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Disillusioned Medea, by Paulus Bor

The Disillusioned Medea

Paulus Bor · ca. 1640

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
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

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
Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout

Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Ornamental Vase Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th 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
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun, by 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun

'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

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
Cup with a Poem on Wine, by Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi

Cup with a Poem on Wine

Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi · second half 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Michel, French, active 18th century

Arabesque Design

Michel, French, active 18th century · 1780-1784

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. 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.