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 with Two Dolphins” — 64 records examined, 1 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.
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain with Two Dolphins

Project for a Fountain with Two Dolphins

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Fountain

Garden Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain with Arms of Jacopo de' Pazzi, by Giuliano da Maiano

Fountain with Arms of Jacopo de' Pazzi

Giuliano da Maiano · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain Supported by Dolphins and Two Dogs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Fountain Supported by Dolphins and Two Dogs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1690s

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

Fountain and basin

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain

Project for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass beaker

Glass beaker

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

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Fountain Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Rocaille Fountain Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Dolphin Fountain Ornament Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Dolphin Fountain Ornament Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Vertical Panels, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Designs for Two Vertical Panels

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd–early 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a fountain, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a fountain

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787–88

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
Three Designs for Decorative Paneling, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Designs for Decorative Paneling

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

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
Etude d’une Fontaine Publique en perspective Inventé par feu Mr. Gille D’oppenort, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Etude d’une Fontaine Publique en perspective Inventé par feu Mr. Gille D’oppenort

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

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
Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna, by Unknown

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna

Unknown · 1650–75

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
Fountain Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Fountain Designs

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

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. 1369 matched · 24 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. 2598784 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.