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. 16 shown for “Tripod censer” — 48 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 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.
Tripod censer

Tripod censer

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Apparatus for Boiling Water, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for an Apparatus for Boiling Water

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archaistic tripod censer (ding)

Archaistic tripod censer (ding)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cassolettes, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Cassolettes

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod incense burner with archaistic patterns

Tripod incense burner with archaistic patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamented Gueridon Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Ornamented Gueridon Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod incense burner

Tripod incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 1486

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820-1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod incense burner

Tripod incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod incense burner

Tripod incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1346

Public domainThe Met
Two Censers, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Two Censers

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small incense burner, 'Ma Jun' or 'Soft Jun' ware, by Chinese

Small incense burner, 'Ma Jun' or 'Soft Jun' ware

Chinese · 13th–14th century (or later)

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1535 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:56 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.