Tripod Table of Mid-Eighteenth Century - A Georgian Mahogany Dumb Waiter - A Papier-Mache Tea Table - Early Nineteenth Century Tripod Table
The tripod table is not strictly speaking derived from the candle stand in our illustration above, but it is possible to trace the influences derived from it. This stand, c.1670, is of walnut, [...]

A Mahogany Gate-Leg Drop-Flap Table - A Mahogany Dining Table - A Regency Period Rosewood Circular Table - A Mahogany Late Victorian Dining Table
A mahogany gate-leg drop-flap table of c.1770. The ‘Chippendale’influence has produced the square section legs chamfered down the back edge. The wood is still a rather heavy Cuban mahogany with good figure, [...]

Oak Table of Refectory Type - Late Seventeenth Century Oak Gate-Leg Table - George I Period Mahogany Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Dining Table
An early oak table of refectory type, c.1600. The large turned legs are connected almost at floor level with heavy stretchers. The main under frame is tenoned into the square tops of the legs [...]

A Chippendale mahogany card table - A George III satinwood and marquetry card table - A Sheraton period mahogany serpentine fronted side table
A ‘Chippendale’ folding card or tea table in mahogany with reeded square legs, serpentine front and elegantly shaped frieze. Of c. 176070 date. Tables of this kind are always higher in value if [...]

Georgian side table - George I mahogany card table - George III mahogany gate-leg table
A George I mahogany card table, showing the candle stands and cups for counters similar to the walnut tables of an earlier period. The bold cabriole legs end in ball and claw feet and the shaped frieze has an echo [...]

Mid-17th Century Oak Table with Column Turned Legs - Oak Side Table with Two Drawers
The earliest form of table for dining use was a simple trestle type, usually make of oak, with top of elm. Later, more solid constructions appeared, developing into the draw and refectory tables of the 16th century. The early forms of [...]

TABLES  smallish tripod and quadripod, 1800-1850
At first antique tripod tables followed the same form as the larger single tables but, with the inventiveness of the Regency period, individual designs emerged. The Victorians produced small Victorian tripod tables with four small legs which strictly speaking do not belong in the same section but which, for the [...]

TABLES  side, pad feet and square leg lowboys
In this section there are a lot of country or provincial pieces with the result that assessment of quality and hence value become more subjective than in the previous section. One may find a feature enormously attractive which to another collector has a glaring design fault. This is, [...]

TABLES  tripods and candlestands to 1770
These evolved from candlestands which came to Britain at the Restoration. They were extremely useful and the design was adapted over the years to provide support for a wide range of objects from wine to books.
A walnut spiral turned example with baluster form at the top. The rectangular sectioned S [...]

TABLES  work, with bags beneath
The work table fitted out with receptaces for needlework and embroidery implements as used by the ladies of the household, did not appear until the later part of the eighteenth century. Chippendale did not illustrate
them, but Sheraton, true to form, showed a variety of ingenious designs. They must have been very [...]