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. 22 shown for “Model of Wellhead with Bucket” — 52 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:45 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.
Model of Wellhead with Bucket

Model of Wellhead with Bucket

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Doble Water Wheel, Patent Model

Doble Water Wheel, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wellhead with Bucket

Wellhead with Bucket

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Life Raft, Patent Model

Life Raft, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer of Zenobius

Ewer of Zenobius

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Tramp bucket

Tramp bucket

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Renaissance-style mortar, by Vincenzo Grandi

Renaissance-style mortar

Vincenzo Grandi · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fire Bucket, "Franklin Fire Company of Charlestown, MA", by unknown

Fire Bucket, "Franklin Fire Company of Charlestown, MA"

unknown · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Situla with Design of Boats

Situla with Design of Boats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Shucking Bucket

Shucking Bucket

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a well head and bucket

Model of a well head and bucket

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Fire Bucket, "Friendly Society", by unknown

Fire Bucket, "Friendly Society"

unknown · ca 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Farmyard Scene], by V. Dijon

[Farmyard Scene]

V. Dijon · 1850–54

Public domainThe Met
Fire Bucket, "5", by unknown

Fire Bucket, "5"

unknown · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fenggan, Hanshan, and Shide, by Reisai

Fenggan, Hanshan, and Shide

Reisai · first half of the 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Figure with Buckets, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Figure with Buckets

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass Bowl

Glass Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Figural Group of Cupids Fishing Representing Water, from a Group Called "The Elements" (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Figural Group of Cupids Fishing Representing Water, from a Group Called "The Elements" (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1790–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bucket used in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Bucket used in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man with Buckets, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man with Buckets

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coal scuttle owned by members of the Ellis family, by Unidentified

Coal scuttle owned by members of the Ellis family

Unidentified · late 19th-early 20th century

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2893991 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-31 06:45 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.