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Antique Mahogany Sofa Table, Walnut Centre Table, Rosewood Card and Games Table

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Antique Mahogany Sofa Table, Walnut Centre Table, Rosewood Card and Games Table - 18th-19th Antique Furniture
A ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE, early 19th century and later.
With a tooled leather-lined top and two frieze drawers with dummy drawers to the reverse, on fluted column standard end supports and splayed and needed feet.
A PAIR OF WALNUT AND FEATHER-BANDED CENTRE [...]

Sheraton Games and Tea Tables

Monday, October 26th, 2009

TABLESĀ  games and tea, Sheraton
As we have seen, the half-round (or demi-lune’) table, opening to a circular form, has a very early provenance, which continued in the early Georgian period and lent itself to taper- or turned-leg form as fashion progressed. It is commercially important that there is no warping of the top.
The form is [...]

Antique Tilt Top Tables

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Tilt top table
The predecessor of the Victorian tilt-top is the eighteenth-century tripod table and its contemporary cousin, the breakfast or supper table, also known as a ’snap-top’ table. In its original form, like all dining-room furniture, the snap-top was made in solid, well-grained mahogany with little embellishment except for cross-cut veneered bands of contrasting inlay. [...]