These links show buckets used for a variety of purposes. It does not include situlas (buckets made to contain holy water) or washtubs. See the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Database for several finds relating to English buckets, especially iron hardware.

• Bucket from the Villa Boscoreale at Pompeii, 79 AD
• Bucket (oak staves with iron hoops) from the Roman fort at Newstead, c. 140-180
• Wood and iron fragments from a bucket from Flanders, 2nd-5th century
• The Breamore Byzantine bucket made in Antioch in the 6th century
• Bucket (yew wood with iron binding) from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, c. 625
• Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Buckets
• Viking-Age Buckets
• Two buckets from the Oseberg ship (detail), c. 834
• Copper-alloy bucket made in Egypt in the 11th century
• Bronze pail, made in Italy in the 12th century
• Medieval bucket (oak staves with iron handle) from Castell y Bere, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, 13th century
• Medieval noggin (I'd call it a piggin), found in the bog at Faill Mor in Co Kerry
• Men at a well, Digestium vetus (Canon. Misc. 493, fol. 153r), beginning of the 14th century
• Detail from The Crucifixion at Kloster Neuburg, c. 1330-1331
• A well in an enclosed garden (fol. 6r) Rebecca and Eleazar at the well (fol. 10r), Daniel in the lion's den (fol. 31r), Thamrys kills Cyrus (fol. 33r), construction of the Tower of Babel (fol. 36v), Elijah increases the widow's oil (fol. 37r), Speculum humanae salvationis (ÖNB 2612), c. 1330-1340
• Elijah and the widow of Sarepta (fol. 46v) and Christ and the Samaritan (fol. 54v), Concordantiae caritatis (Lilienfeld Stiftsbibliothek 151), c. 1349-1351
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, Chronicles of Heinrich von München (ÖNB 2768, fol. 44v), c. 1375-1400)
• Ewe's milk (fol. 56v), fermented milk (fol. 57), various meats (fol. 65), rain (fol. 95v), spring-water (fol. 96), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF NAL 1673), c. 1390-1400
• Bath-maid, an astronomical text (ÖNB 2352, fol. 34v), c. 1392-1394
• Bath-maid (ÖNB 2789, fol. 1r), c. 1395-1400
• Bath-maids in details at left and right, commentaries on Ptolemy (ÖNB 2271, fol. 1r), c. 1395-1405
• Well-bucket (oak staves with iron bands) from the early 15th century, found at the bottom of a well at Coppergate in York
• Fermented milk (fol. 57v), pork (fol. 72v), brains (fol. 75), and verjuice (fol. 83),Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• A well in April, and grape-harvesters in October, frescoes at the Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
• A man carries two buckets with a yoke, Grandes Heures of Jean de Berry (BNF Latin 919, fol. 25), 1409
• Rebecca and Eleazar at the well (fol. 9r) and the Ark of the Covenant (fol. 10v), Speculum humanae salvationis (BNE B. 19 (Vit 25-7)), c. 1420-1440
• Christ and the Samaritan (fol. 21r) and Mary with the Arma Christi (fol. 75v), The Life of Christ (ÖNB 485), c. 1425-1435
• Several examples in the Mendel Hausbuch, especially Albrecht Pütner (c. 1425) and Hanns Gebenpach (1485)
• Calandrino and Niccolosa, Decameron (BNF Fr. 239, fol. 253v), second quarter of the 15th century
• A marital argument, Der Renner (ÖNB 3086, fol. 87r), 1426
• Detail from The Birth of Mary, c. 1438-1440
• Detail from The Death of Mary, c. 1438-1440
• Daniel is fed by Habakkuk, a fresco from St. Daniel am Kiechelberg, c. 1444-1448
• Pyrrhos kills Polyxena, The Trojan War (ÖNB 2773, fol. 212v), c. 1445-1450
• Rebecca and Eleazar at the well (fol. 18r) and construction (fol. 110v), Speculum humanae salvationis (ÖNB 12823), c. 1445-1455
• St. Florian on fols. 134r and 269v of the Prayerbook of Barbara von Cilly (ÖNB 1767, fol. 134r), 1448
• The fire at Tarse, History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 47, fol. 44v), second half of the 15th century
• Construction of the Temple, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 55, fol. 70), second half of the 15th century
• The servant of St. Honorat at the fountain (fol. 10) and the miracle of the fish of St. Honorat (fol. 10), Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 58), second half of the 15th century
• St. Florian, the prayerbook of Albrecht VI (ÖNB 1846, fol. 37v), c. 1455-1463
• St. Florian from the altarpiece at St. Johann in Ahrn, c. 1455-1465
• St. Florian by Hans Multscher, c. 1456-1458
• Miracle of St. Gregory of Tours, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 450v), 1463
• A physician, Schachzabelbuch (ÖNB 2801, fol. 40v), 1464
• Construction work, Doctrinale of Alexander of Villedieu (ÖNB 2289, fol. 37v), c. 1465-1470
• The plague of locusts, c. 1465-1475
• Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, 1469
• Ruben mourns for Jacob by Leonhard von Brixen-Umkreis, c. 1470-1480
• Detail: a well from St. Catherine at the Wheel by Hans Egkel, c. 1470-1480
• Christ and the Samaritan, c. 1475-1485
• St. Florian, c. 1475-1485
• A wife at a well, Der Renner (PML M.763, fol. 150v), last quarter of the 15th century
• Campagna, Secrets of Natural History (BMF Fr. 22971, fol. 11), c. 1480-1485
• Detail from St. Elizabeth of Thuringia bathing the lepers, c. 1480-1500
• Detail from the Kefermarkter Altar, c. 1490-1500
• St. Florian, Church of St. Margaret in Mlynica, c. 1500-1510
• Christ washing the disciples' feet (ÖNB 2752, fol. 71v), c. 1500-1525
• Job and his Wife by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1502-1504
• Detail: A smelting-furnace, Roznava Altarpiece, 1513
• St. Florian, Church of St. George at Spisska Sobota, 1516
• Detail from The Last Rest of Christ, 1518
• A leather bucket from the Mary Rose, 1545 (see also reconstructed leather bucket and handle detail, and A Mary Rose Leather Bucket); also, a wooden bucket
• Ecce Homo by the Brunswick Monogrammist, c. 1545
• Study of a woman holding a bucket by Alessandro Allori