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. 12 shown for “Spittoon or Incense Burner” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Spittoon or Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Incense burner with feline head
Tiwanaku artist(s) · 500–1000 CE

Incense burner (brûle-parfum)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775
Incense Burner in Three Parts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th century

Bird-Shaped Incence Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

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

Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Incense Burner (Kōro) in the Shape of a Courtier’s Hat with Scrolling Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1750

Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
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. 154 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:28 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.