A ‘Chippendale’ Folding Card or Tea Table in Mahogany - A Sheraton Period Satinwood Card Table - Regency Card Table
A ‘Chippendale’ folding card or tea table in mahogany with moulded square legs, serpentine front and elegantly shaped frieze, c.1760-70. Tables of this kind are always higher in value if of the ‘tea’ type, i.e. with [...]

17th century oak gate-leg table -  William and Mary period side table - Walnut side table - William and Mary period carved wood table
One of the chief innovations of the Stuart and Commonwealth period (1603-60) was the gate-leg table. It appeared in Jacobean times but was perhaps not fully developed until after 1650. The turned [...]

TABLES  centre pedestal
Not all the tables in this section started out life as dining tables by any means. Many were intended as centre tables or for occasional use, but the modern collector, with more modest space and size of household, is
happy to adopt them for dining. Indeed, many of the large extending tables used in [...]

TABLES  dressing
The most successful form of dressing table seems to have been one with drawers in pedestals on either side. Indeed, the walnut reproduction desk shown in the Desk Section (No. 326) is, in fact, a copy of a kneehole
dressing table of c.1700 (but see the Price Guide to Antique Furniture for all about that). [...]

TABLES  side and card
An ebonised card table decorated with inlaid boxwood stringing and marquetry. The canted edges of the folding top are banded with burr walnut. The four-pillar support and curved feet with arched cross-stretchered design topped by a vase-shaped finial is typical of mid-Victorian popular designs dating from 1860 onwards to the 1880s. C. [...]

TABLES  Sutherland
The Sutherland table is a 19th Century English Victorian form of gateleg table with a particularly narrow centre section. It has the virtue that when the flaps are down the piece fits into a very small space. It is thus a useful occasional table. The earliest designs are by W. Smee & Son, from [...]

TABLES  writing and library, late 18th and 19th century
The long writing tables, often referred to as library tables, of the late Georgian, Regency and Victorian period have a marked design similarity to sofa tables of the early part of the period, except that they do not have
end flaps. Perhaps designers produced one drawing which the [...]

TABLES  work, without bags
Not all work tables had bags beneath. The selection shown here is of a type in which the drawers, fitted into a small table, were sufficient for needlework implements and materials.
A Regency rosewood table with the lyre form built into its supports and brass inlays  enough to give any dealer a rush [...]

TABLES  sofa, pillar supports
The final group of sofa tables is the one in which there is a central pedestal. These pieces are therefore linked with pedestal dining tables, for the same type of base was often used.
In mahogany and remarkably similar to a design in zebrawood which can be dated exactly to 1810. The pillars [...]

TABLES  side, early, single drawer
We have separated out lowboys or dressing tables and have defined them as having three or four drawers, while side tables are defined as having one or at most two drawers.
The types are clearly related but side or centre tables are found well back into the early seventeenth century. However, for [...]