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 “Design for a Billiard Table” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 11:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Design for a Billiard Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Table
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Détail du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Table
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century, second quarter

Détail du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Library Table
Herter Brothers · 1879–82

Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Console table
Richard de Lalonde · 1780–90

Coupes du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Side table
Charles Lebrun · ca. 1685

Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Coupes du Billard
Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

Center Table
Anthony G. Quervelle · ca. 1830

Détails d’une salle de Billiard Chinois construite à Belle Ville pour Mr. Cochin, Inspecteur general des ports de Mer par Mandar, Architecte et Ing…en Chef des ponts et Chaussées
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812
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. 940 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. 2096871 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-10 11:42 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.