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. 24 shown for “Model of a well head and bucket” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 09:03 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 a well head and bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

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

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Patent Model, Endless Chain Propeller
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Silver Bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 600s

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

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Plate XLIV from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum
Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91
Bucket used in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Artist not stated in the record

Vase on a column stand
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles · after 1771–72, mounts ca. 1780

lock, well bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Minerva
Clodion (Claude Michel) · 1766

Cottle Windmill, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Fire Bucket, "W.P. Goodhue"
unknown · mid 19th century

Saint Matthew
Antonio Susini · 1596

Plate XLIII from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum
Artist not stated in the record · 1582

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Fire Bucket, "Protection in Danger"
unknown · ca 1800

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Life Raft, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1871
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. 4351 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4070861 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 09:03 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.