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. 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

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 incense burner with dragon amid flowers

Tripod incense burner with dragon amid flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1512

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Incense Burners and a Frame, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Incense Burners and a Frame

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod table stand (Athénienne), by Joseph Chinard

Tripod table stand (Athénienne)

Joseph Chinard · probably ca. 1793

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Incense Burners and a Cartel Clock Case, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Two Incense Burners and a Cartel Clock Case

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

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

Tripod incense burner with makara

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Title Page and Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with Sun Symbol

Tray with Sun Symbol

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ollio pot with cover and stand, by Vienna

Ollio pot with cover and stand

Vienna · ca. 1725

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, by Charles Le Brun

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Charles Le Brun · 1647

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
Small covered wine pot or teapot, by Chinese

Small covered wine pot or teapot

Chinese · 1662–1722

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
Song of the Stone Drums, by Xianyu Shu

Song of the Stone Drums

Xianyu Shu · dated 1301

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
Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

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

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

Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

Ornamental Vase Design

Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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. 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.