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 “Pair of pier tables” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Design for a Pier Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1790

Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880 · 1864

Pair of pier tables
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Designs for Pier Glasses of the Great Room and Side Board Table in Dining Room, plate VIII, in Works of Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Vol. I, 1st Edition
Robert Adam, British, 1728–1792 · 1778
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Design for a Pier Glass with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Bedside table (table de nuit)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1750–56

Plate 3, Developement d'un Trumeau de glace fait pour le Portugal (Design for a Pier Glass with Varation for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

Small oval writing table (one of a pair)
Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1775

Pier table
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1815-20

Pier Table
Duncan Phyfe · 1835–40

Design for Six-Legged Rectangular Dining Table
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Pier Table
Joseph Meeks & Sons · 1829–35

Design for Six-Legged Round Dining Table
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Design for a Six-Legged Rectangular Table with a Fower Vase
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Pier table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Plate 2, Projet d'un Trumeau de glace pour un grand cabinet fait pour le Portugal (Project for a Pier Glass for a Large Cabinet Made for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740–48

Pier table
Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Design for Rolling Serving Table with Three Trays
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Pier Table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Design for Rolling Serving Table with Two Trays
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05
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. 533 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. 2862839 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 23:16 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.