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. 19 shown for “Silver Bucket” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Silver Bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 600s

Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1730

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

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

The Avar Treasure
Artist not stated in the record · 600s (bucket)–700s

Untitled
Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940 · ca. 1935

Case (Inrō) with Design of Autumn Flowers
Shiomi Masanari 塩見政誠 · early 18th century

Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages
J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784 · 1762

Silver Drinking Bowl with Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages
J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784 · 1762

Inrō with Scattered Musical Instruments, Theatrical Implements, and Flowers
Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Photograph of a wooden house
Artist not stated in the record · 1925

Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

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

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Bronze attachment with silver studs
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Bronze situla (bucket) with swinging handles
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Goblet and Cover (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 700s
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 96897 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:09 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.