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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Model of Wellhead with Bucket
Artist not stated in the record

Doble Water Wheel, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Wellhead with Bucket
Artist not stated in the record

Life Raft, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Ewer of Zenobius
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Tramp bucket
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895

Renaissance-style mortar
Vincenzo Grandi · 19th century

Fire Bucket, "Franklin Fire Company of Charlestown, MA"
unknown · 1830

Situla with Design of Boats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Shucking Bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Model of a well head and bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Fire Bucket, "Friendly Society"
unknown · ca 1830
![[Farmyard Scene], by V. Dijon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT1156.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Farmyard Scene]
V. Dijon · 1850–54

Fire Bucket, "5"
unknown · 19th century

Fenggan, Hanshan, and Shide
Reisai · first half of the 15th century

Figure with Buckets
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

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

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

Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–7th century BCE
Bucket used in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Artist not stated in the record

Man with Buckets
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

Coal scuttle owned by members of the Ellis family
Unidentified · late 19th-early 20th century
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.