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. 23 shown for “Magnolia grandiflora L.” — 54 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:17 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.
Magnolia Vase

Magnolia Vase

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magnolia and Mynahs, by Wang Li

Magnolia and Mynahs

Wang Li

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 10/10/88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Drawing, by Tiffany & Co.

Design Drawing

Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1893

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Drawing, by Tiffany & Co.

Design Drawing

Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1893

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream

Autumn Trees and Grasses by a Stream

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Taddeo Gaddi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Taddeo Gaddi · ca. 1340, updated ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · 185

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Julian, by Taddeo Gaddi

Saint Julian

Taddeo Gaddi · 1340s

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Poppies on Gold Ground, by Ogata Kōrin

White Poppies on Gold Ground

Ogata Kōrin

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nine Songs, by Zhao Mengfu

Nine Songs

Zhao Mengfu · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magnolia grandiflora L.

Magnolia grandiflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1885

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1299750 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-01 11:17 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.