ANTIQUE GAMING TABLE, MAHOGANY OVAL PEMBROKE TABLE, WRITING AND WORK TABLE, ANTIQUE SERVING TABLE, REGENCY STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLES
A LARGE GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR GAMING TABLE
with a baize-lined interior with six square tapering legs,
4ft. 5in. wide (135cm.) circa 1780.
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR MAHOGANY CARD TABLES, the tops crossbanded in satinwood and each with a [...]

Mahogany Pembroke Table - Mahogany Writing Table - Regency Period Dining Table - Mahogany Library Table
A Thomas Sheraton mahogany Pembroke table, the top cross banded with herringbone bands of kingwood, with a rising ‘Harlequin’ section with a fall-front inlaid with ribboned festoons of flowers in scorched and green fruitwood, in the manner of Pierre Langlois, [...]

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 [...]

TABLES  sofa, vertical supports and stretchers
The sofa table is a variation which was evolved from the Pembroke table and gets its name from its intended application, namely, to stand against a sofa. It is therefore long and thin with flaps at the end, whereas the Pembroke is squarer in shape, and so popular did it [...]

TABLES  Pembroke
Named after the Countess of Pembroke, said to have been the first to order one. Antique Pembroke tables appeared about 1750 but really became popular around 1780. There are therefore some rare museum quality Pembroke tables in the Chippendale styles. They were considered to be a small useful table, with hinged wooden brackets to [...]

Pembroke table
This slender, elegant table was first made, so it is said, at the request of the Countess of Pembroke, around 1750. It was an all-purpose occasional table
Signs of authenticity
1. Legs always tapered from inside only: outside corners of legs form right angles with floor.
2. Tops of legs continuing up to form side-frame of drawer.
3. [...]

Sutherland table
These slim, practical folding tables were reputedly named after Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria during the early decades of her long reign. The combination of a cheval-type construction and gate-leg is far more successful and elegant than it sounds and they are among the few really successful designs [...]

Late XVIII Century Tables
18th Century tables, although not described as such in Chippendale’s Director, were a new type of table. During the first half of the 18th century, people tended to sit at small tables to eat, arranged in groups in a dedicated eating room.
Around the 1750s, people began to eat at longer tables. Quite [...]