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 “Design for a Fantastic Fountain” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 21:40 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.
Garden Fountain

Garden Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fantastic Fountain

Design for a Fantastic Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Landscape, by Francesco Guardi

Fantastic Landscape

Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Fountain Design, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Rocaille Fountain Design

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Landscape, by Francesco Guardi

Fantastic Landscape

Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Fountain Design, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Rocaille Fountain Design

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Ornament Design, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Rocaille Ornament Design

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Fantastic Garden, by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715

Fantastic Garden

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain and basin, by Meissen Manufactory

Fountain and basin

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32

Public domainThe Met
Le Rendez-vous, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Le Rendez-vous

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monkey fountain figure, by Caspar Gras

Monkey fountain figure

Caspar Gras · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Patch-Box, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Design for a Patch-Box

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tarquin and Lucretia, by Hubert Gerhard

Tarquin and Lucretia

Hubert Gerhard · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trellised Targe for the Tilt

Trellised Targe for the Tilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design (Left Plate), by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Panel Design (Left Plate)

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85

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. 513 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2093215 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-09 21:40 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.