Posts Tagged ‘Tables’

ANTIQUE GAMING TABLE, MAHOGANY OVAL PEMBROKE TABLE, WRITING AND WORK TABLE, ANTIQUE SERVING TABLE, REGENCY STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLES

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

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 [...]

A Queen Anne period dressing table - A George III mahogany dressing table - country dressing table in walnut and fruitwood

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

A Queen Anne period dressing table - A George III mahogany dressing table - country dressing table in walnut and fruitwood
Towards the end of the seventeenth century the small tables in walnut and oak or country woods specifically designed as dressing tables made their appearance. Before that it seems to have been the practice to [...]

Antique Work Table - A Regency Work Table in Mahogany - A Victorian Walnut Work Table

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Antique Work Table - A Regency Work Table in Mahogany - A Victorian Walnut Work Table
Work tables for use by ladies, with space for needlework materials in a well below were a later 18th century phenomenon and were made in a variety of forms. We have illustrated some typical examples and have
included a number without [...]

Mahogany Pembroke Table - Mahogany Writing Table - Regency Period Dining Table - Mahogany Library Table

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

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

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]

Victorian and 1900-1930`s Art Deco Dining tables and Games Tables

Friday, November 20th, 2009

TABLES  dining, oak reproductions
A really heavy oak reproduction refectory table with primitive lion-mask carving, on six enormous carved bulbous legs. The sheer quantity of oak involved would make such a table enormously expensive to produce
today, let alone the question of the carved decoration. 1890-1920
A simpler oak ‘draw-leaf’ table on four bulbous carved legs. The stretchers [...]

Victorian and Art Deco Occasional Tripod and Centre Tables. Sutherland Tables

Friday, November 20th, 2009

TABLES  occasional, centre
A walnut centre table inlaid with a marquetry panel and with ormolu mounts. Very similar to the writing table 582 and, again, made in a French Louis XVth style of perennial popularity. Not as high quality as 582 but
nevertheless still a well-made and very decorative piece. 1860-1890
A centre table of Reformed Gothic character [...]

Victorian and Art Deco Writing Tables

Friday, November 20th, 2009

TABLES  writing
A satinwood ‘Carlton House’ writing table with oval panels in the upper doors. The type appears in Gillow’s cost books for 1796 and is also illustrated in the ‘Cabinet Maker’s Book of Prices’ of 1788. Carlton House was the residence of the Prince Regent. Gillows simply describe the piece as ‘A Ladies’ Drawing and [...]

Victorian, Art Deco and Edwardian Gateleg Tables

Friday, November 20th, 2009

TABLES  gateleg
The gateleg table was a great favourite of the 17th and 18th centuries. It did not die out in the 19th century but continued in other forms, like the Sutherland (q.v.) table.
During the last quarter of the 19th century, however, it was back to the Good Old Days for gatelegs, as with so many [...]