Victorian and Art Deco Occasional Tripod and Centre Tables. Sutherland Tables
TABLES occasional, centre
A walnut centre table inlaid with a marquetry panel and with ormolu mounts. Very similar to the writing table 582 and, again, made in a French Louis XVth style of perennial popularity. Not as high quality as 582 but
nevertheless still a well-made and very decorative piece. 1860-1890
A centre table of Reformed Gothic character from Blackmoor House, c.1872 (see British Furniture, 1880-1915 by Pauline Agius, pl. 74). Possibly designed by the Manchester architect, Alfred Waterhouse, a friend of Norman Shaw. Waterhouse designed for Blackmoor, starting in 1869 and imitated Shaw’s ‘Old English’ style as used at Leyswood, which still had Gothic features such as the gate tower. The table is interesting in its construction of Reformed Gothic style and structure but incorporating half-and full suns of Japanese character and the spindled gallery. The move from Gothic to Anglo-Japanese can be perceived.
An interesting ebonised centre table with a turned spindled gallery connecting the end supports which are pierced and carved with stylised flowers and leaves. Of Reformed Gothic character but with later developments in the carving.
A mahogany centre table of rather Continental design on spun brass cup feet of a type associated with W.A.S. Benson, a designer for Morris & Co. who specialised in metalwork. The same feet are used on furniture
attributed to the firm of J.S. Henry (see British Furniture, 1880-1915, by Pauline Agius, p.94, pl. 112).
An occasional centre table of octagonal shape, in rosewood, with eight turned legs and a centre column joined by stretchers radiating from the centre. An arcaded apron also joins the legs. Possibly by Collinson & Lock. c. 1880 18kt gold earrings with natural
Another spider-like centre table with a moulded top edge, by Morris & Co. Made in mahogany. The firm produced several similar designs, available in mahogany or fumed oak. C. 1900
A six-legged mahogany centre table by a commercial firm of general furnishers. Clearly the type was popular up to 1914. Also available with only four legs.
A ‘Chippendale’ version of the octagonal mahogany centre table on eight legs. This time the radiating stretchers are pierced and fretted with scrolled work. The top edge is gadrooned. 1910-1920
An oval ‘Sheraton’ style centre table on four tapering square section legs ending in castors and connected by curved stretchers emanating from a central finial. The top is inlaid and crossbanded; there is satinwood white gold natural diamond ring
banding and boxwood stringing around all the normally approved edges.
Two small occasional tables of the type ideal for coffee or tea drinking in the sitting room. On the left, a scalloped top with dished edge and chinoiserie decoration, mounted on carved cabriole legs ending in hoof feet.
On the right, a segmented feather-veneered mahogany top with cross-banding, mounted on cabriole legs ending in hoof feet, with a lion mask carved at the top and a frieze also carved in bas-relief with scrolls and old gold diamonds earrings natural
shells. Nothing, of course, like these two tables was made in the periods from whose styles they have borrowed. The 20th century had advanced both comfort and practicality in arriving at the dimensions, then it has imposed the most marketable styles associated with high quality on to the design. 1920-1940
TABLES occasional, tripod
The tripod table is an 18th century invention, probably developed from candle stands. It is still one of the most popular occasional tables and has been much reproduced. gold ring king charles aa365
A Victorian version of the tripod table, in walnut, with a scalloped edge in emulation of the 18th century ‘pie crust’ edge. The shaping of the column is unmistakably mid-19th century and the use of the finial below the
column is also characteristic of mid- to late Victorian furniture. The shaping of the legs is also not that associated with Georgian tripods. c.1870 jewelry diamond ring miluna lid1823
A mahogany tripod table with a brass gallery rail around the circular top and decorative scrolled supports in addition to the centre column. 1900-1920 beautiful earrings 18kt yellow gold
Mahogany tripod tables with moulded rims, fluted columns, reeded vases spiral to the left, straight to the right and elegant legs carved with acanthus leaf decoration. Essentially straight reproductions of 18th century tripod tables but looking shorter in proportion and the tops of a greater diameter than the period originals would probably have had. Good quality pieces, though. 1900-1920 baraka mens rubber bracelet gold
TABLES Sutherland
A walnut drop-leaf gateleg table of a type known in the trade as a Sutherland table (for some obscure reason). Made in mahogany or walnut (i.e. veneered in figured or burr walnut), these tables can be supported on a single turned column at each end, as shown above, or on a double column with spiral or other turning. There is an extra, thin, turned leg on a gate at each side which swings out to support the flap when open. They can be seen clearly above. The Victorians do not seem to have minded this rather unhappy lack of cohesion in leg design; the gatelegs often look like a pair of poles or walking sticks that someone has leant in random fashion against the frame under the flaps. The merit of the design is, of course, that the table, when folded, is very slim in end elevation and the whole is mounted on castors so that it can be tucked away neatly. The spiral grooving turned into the legs of the above example is often found on these tables. steel and 18k gold bracelet
An ebonised Sutherland table which shows very clearly how undesirable ebonised furniture looks when dusty and in poor condition. c. 1890
A similar design of Sutherland table in mahogany, with the same form of end columns and mounted on white castors. 1860-1890 first gold and diamonds ring
A rectangular Sutherland table with spirally-turned double end supports on a simple arched foot design. The thumb-nail top edge moulding appears on almost all the tables at the time.
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