A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables provide an elevated flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is
A carom table in a cafè with overhead lamps, Paris, France
Billiard Table Manufactory, J. M. Brunswick & Bro., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 ad
A cue ball and the 1 ball close to a WPA-style pocket. (The balls are the same size; the cue ball looks large due to foreshortening.)
Russian pyramid ball at a corner pocket. The relative size of the ball and the pocket makes the game very challenging.
Danish billiards or keglebillard, sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional cue sport of Denmark, and the game remains predominantly played in that country. It makes use of a 5 ×
Danish pin billiards
Billiard room at the Marienborg.