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. 22 shown for “Tripod incense burner with dragon amid flowers” — 50 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tripod incense burner with dragon amid flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1512

Designs for Incense Burners and a Frame
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778

Tripod table stand (Athénienne)
Joseph Chinard · probably ca. 1793

Designs for Two Incense Burners and a Cartel Clock Case
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

Tripod incense burner with makara
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Title Page and Arabesque Panel Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

Tray with Sun Symbol
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

Ollio pot with cover and stand
Vienna · ca. 1725

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun · 1647

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

Small covered wine pot or teapot
Chinese · 1662–1722

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

Song of the Stone Drums
Xianyu Shu · dated 1301

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

Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late13th century

Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

Ornamental Vase Design
Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

Designs for Andirons, Oval Medallions, and an Incense Burner or Plinth
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 307783 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 18:29 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.