Victorian Pedestal Dining Tables
TABLES dining, Victorian pedestal
As might be expected the range of pedestal tables was large and the following selection shows the range. Value is affected by decorative potential as well as quality of workmanship.
Superb quality in exotic woods, these saloon tables’ were very much in the grand manner. They were made by firms like Holland & Sons and advertised in Warings catalogue, 1862. When stamped or provenance can be established the value can be appropriately high. c. 1870
Again a bulbous stem, not visible, but this time in walnut with a most attractive walnut top with subtle marquetry inset round the sides and on top. c. 1860
Highly flamboyant in yew wood of the type associated with Muckross Abbey School in Ireland. The pedestal table which is not shown is bulbous and covered in bits and pieces of marquetry. c. 1860
The heavily carved scroll feet, which are set at this angle, but above all the bulbous turning of the mahogany pedestal tables, all suggest the date when this form was popular. Note that if a marquetry top in exotic woods is by a known maker and invoices, etc. are available, then the price can go up considerably. c. 1850s
Although this type of outward curving foot and the straight three-sided column were first used around the early 1830s, the typical Victorian marquetry top suggests a later date.
Smee shows almost this type of foot in 1850. Note the crudeness of the marquetry compared with 785, both now being reproduced with an unabashed newness of finish. c. 1840
More marquetry of good quality. Note the height of the knee on the cabrioles. This example in C. & R. Light’s Catalogue of 1881 shows this characteristic. The faceted pedestal is also found in some later furniture. c.1870
The four pedestal straight leg type table which was popular from the 1870s onwards. It first came in about 1850s when needless to say the entire structure was curved. Plenty of inlay in ivory with turned centre finial.
An altogether heavier and coarser design. The finial is gadrooned and the supports are similarly shaped. Along the lines of C. & R. Light. c.1880
Tags: 1830s, 1850s, 1870s, mahogany pedestal, marquetry, pedestal tables, straight leg, walnut top