OpenTwo 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 “Samuel Flower” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jamb stove
Samuel Flower · 1756
Samuel Bowden
Unidentified · late 18th to early 20th century
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625
Samuel Lewis Southard
E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company, active c. 1842 - 1867 · 1844
Cream jug
Samuel Meriton · 1754–55
Cardinal Flower
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · ca. 1880
Candlestick
Samuel Siervent · 1762–63
Antelao, From Cortina, with Studies of Flowers
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · July 9, 1904
Embroidered Picture
Elizabeth Folwell's School · ca. 1800
Photographic print of funeral floral arrangements for Samuel M. Jackson Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · September 1928
Brown Oribe Flower Holder (Hanaire) with Handles
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Gardiner Howland and Samuel Howland
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1840
Flower Pot
Eiraku Hozen · 19th century
Japanese Lily, East Hampton
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · August 23, 1880
Flower Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Samuel Gompers, James Duncan and Frank Morrison
Keystone View Company, active 1892 - 1963 · c. 1910
Flower Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Ethel Barrymore
Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1901
Pedestal vase and bulb pot (piédestal en gaine) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1760
Azaleas
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1876
Pedestal vase and bulb pot (piédestal en gaine) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1759–60
Sketch of Hop Vine
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1880
Potpourri vase with candleholders (pot-pourri à bobêche) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1760
Buttercups, Mt. Desert
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · July 9, 1877
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. 588 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 43545 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 23:43 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.