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 “Fontana workshops” — 63 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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.
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
Plate with the Contest between the Muses and the Pierides, by Urbino Workshop

Plate with the Contest between the Muses and the Pierides

Urbino Workshop · ca. 1540-1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Fontana workshops

Dish

Fontana workshops · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Project: A pulpit shown in profile

Project: A pulpit shown in profile

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with The Discovery of Achilles, by Fontana workshops

Dish with The Discovery of Achilles

Fontana workshops · ca. 1555–60

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Jacob's Dream, by Orazio Fontana

Dish with Jacob's Dream

Orazio Fontana · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana var. alpicola Paris

Philonotis fontana var. alpicola Paris

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cistern, by Orazio Fontana

Cistern

Orazio Fontana · ca. 1545

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large plate (grande piatto): An episode from the Sack of Rome, 1527: the assault on the Borgo (?), by workshop of Guido Durantino

Large plate (grande piatto): An episode from the Sack of Rome, 1527: the assault on the Borgo (?)

workshop of Guido Durantino · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim bottle, by Orazio Fontana

Pilgrim bottle

Orazio Fontana · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim bottle, by Orazio Fontana

Pilgrim bottle

Orazio Fontana · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval basin or dish with subject from Amadis of Gaul, by Orazio Fontana

Oval basin or dish with subject from Amadis of Gaul

Orazio Fontana · ca. 1559–64

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval basin or dish with subject from Amadis of Gaul, by Orazio Fontana

Oval basin or dish with subject from Amadis of Gaul

Orazio Fontana · ca. 1559–64

Public domainThe Met
Bartramia fontana (Hedw.) Turner

Bartramia fontana (Hedw.) Turner

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Festival Float or Barge, by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

Design for a Festival Float or Barge

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Triton, by Giambologna

Triton

Giambologna · 1590s

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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 1 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. 2201 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 02:28 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.