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 “Project for a Fountain at a Wall” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:20 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.
Wall fountain, by Simone Mosca

Wall fountain

Simone Mosca · 1527–34

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain at a Wall

Project for a Fountain at a Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Wall Fountain, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Wall Fountain

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1760–70

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
Design for a Fountain, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Fountain

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a wall fountain, by Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964

Design for a wall fountain

Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964 · ca. 1907–1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Fountain and Buffet, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Fountain and Buffet

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Colonnade with Fountain, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Colonnade with Fountain

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Wall Fountain

Design for a Wall Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Wall Niche with Fountain, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall Niche with Fountain

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Five Women at a Fountain, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Five Women at a Fountain

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain in Niche

Design for Fountain in Niche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain

Project for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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. 5290 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2633987 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 2026-09-02 01:20 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.