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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Project for a Fountain with Two Dolphins
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Garden Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Fountain with Arms of Jacopo de' Pazzi
Giuliano da Maiano · ca. 1470

Design for a Fountain Supported by Dolphins and Two Dogs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1690s

Fountain and basin
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32

Project for a Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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

Rocaille Fountain Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1736

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Dolphin Fountain Ornament Design
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Designs for Two Vertical Panels
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

Glass bottle with dolphin handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd–early 4th century CE

Design for a fountain
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787–88

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Three Designs for Decorative Paneling
François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Etude d’une Fontaine Publique en perspective Inventé par feu Mr. Gille D’oppenort
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Triton Fountain after Giambologna
Unknown · 1650–75

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

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