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. 22 shown for “Samuel Kirk” — 58 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cann
Samuel Kirk · 1830
Tureen with Terrapin Lid
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1880–90
Salver
Samuel Kirk · ca. 1830
Lid and Two-Part Spout of Hot Water Kettle
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · ca. 1845
Knife
Samuel Kirk · ca. 1837–46
Sugar Bowl
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Creamer
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1832
Beaker
Samuel Kirk · 1815–35
Hot Water Urn
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Sugar Bowl
Samuel Kirk and Son · 1846
Floral Repoussé Decoration
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · ca. 1875
Salt Spoon
Samuel Kirk and Son · 1846
Teapot
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Trade token
Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942 and Kirk Brothers
Salt
Samuel Kirk and Son · 1846
Trade token
Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942
Salt
Samuel Kirk and Son · 1846
Gingidia enysii (Kirk) J.W. Dawson
Artist not stated in the record
Creamer
Samuel Kirk and Son · ca. 1850
Haloragis uniflora Kirk
Artist not stated in the record
Page from a sketchbook
Samuel Palmer · ca. 1848 (?)
Lagenophora purpurea Kirk
Artist not stated in the record
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 28589 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 21:08 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.