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. 12 shown for “Fontana family” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 23:38 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.

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.

Wine cooler with A Pageant Battle with Elephants, by Fontana family

Wine cooler with A Pageant Battle with Elephants

Fontana family · ca. 1562–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Façade of Santi Faustino e Giovita, Rome, by Carlo Fontana

Design for the Façade of Santi Faustino e Giovita, Rome

Carlo Fontana · 1652–1725

Public domainThe Met
Fontana di Mercurio nel Giardino del Gran Duca di Toscana (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 3, 'Le Fontane ne' Palazzi di Roma' (plate 9), by Giovanni Francesco Venturini

Fontana di Mercurio nel Giardino del Gran Duca di Toscana (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 3, 'Le Fontane ne' Palazzi di Roma' (plate 9)

Giovanni Francesco Venturini · 1691 or after

Public domainThe Met
Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation, by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation

Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400

Public domainThe Met
Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
View of the palace of the illustrious Barberini family on the Quirinal Hill, designed by Cavaliere Bernini, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the palace of the illustrious Barberini family on the Quirinal Hill, designed by Cavaliere Bernini, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · ca. 1750–1759

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of a bearded Hercules

Marble statue of a bearded Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · 68–98 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Curb Bit

Curb Bit

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-30 23:38 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.