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. 21 shown for “Orazio Fontana” — 49 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cistern
Orazio Fontana · ca. 1545

Plate with the Contest between the Muses and the Pierides
Urbino Workshop · ca. 1540-1550

Dish with Jacob's Dream
Orazio Fontana · ca. 1550

Amorino
Artist not stated in the record · possibly ca. 1600

Dish
Orazio Fontana · first half 16th century

Plan and Elevation for the Chapel of Orazio Lancellotti at San Giovanni Archbasilica
Giovanni Battista De Rossi, Italian, ca. 1601 - 1678 · ca. 1675

Pilgrim bottle
Orazio Fontana · ca. 1550

The Annunciation, Study after Orazio Samacchini, Forli
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

Pilgrim bottle
Orazio Fontana · ca. 1550

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

Oval basin or dish with subject from Amadis of Gaul
Orazio Fontana · ca. 1559–64

Philonotis fontana var. alpicola Paris
Artist not stated in the record

Oval basin or dish with subject from Amadis of Gaul
Orazio Fontana · ca. 1559–64

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record

Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record

Dish
Willem Jansz. Verstraeten · 1650–60

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record
Bartramia fontana (Hedw.) Turner
Artist not stated in the record
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1247 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 04:00 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.