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. 15 shown for “Vignette, Baptism” — 43 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:16 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.
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Vignette, Baptism

Vignette, Baptism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist, by Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco)

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Public domainThe Met
Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes

Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes

Artist not stated in the record · 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child

Gerard David · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Baptism

Baptism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler and baptismal record

Sampler and baptismal record

Artist not stated in the record · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fraktur: Baptismal Certificate of Maria Schaeffer, by P. Otto

Fraktur: Baptismal Certificate of Maria Schaeffer

P. Otto · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of St. Martin

Baptism of St. Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Baptism of Christ

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1731 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-08 06:16 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.