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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Vignette, Baptism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes
Artist not stated in the record · 1940

Virgin and Child
Gerard David · ca. 1520

Baptism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Sampler and baptismal record
Artist not stated in the record · 1773

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Design for the Elevation of a Metal Baptismal Bowl
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · ca. 1928

Design for Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Fraktur: Baptismal Certificate of Maria Schaeffer
P. Otto · 1820

Baptism of St. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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