Antique Mahogany Tripod Table - Tripod Tea Table - Regency Rosewood Library  Table
The principle role of tripod tables has been as wine or occasional tables for social use. As a piece of furniture a tripod table of small size is decorative and useful in this respect but easilyknocked over and liable to damage. Many 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  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  reading, writing and artists
Architects’ tables were large and solid; others were of lighter construction and designed to fit in with furnishings in the fine reception rooms. The best are to be counted among the most elegant furniture. Even the inelegant are loved  collectors love pieces that do things.
A much more simple reading table with [...]

TABLES  dining, mahogany multi-pedestal
A two pedestal table with column supports and curving legs having a dark inlaid stringing line. The centre leaf is supported by strong metal catches. Note that the tripods are not evenly spaced so that when the flap is taken out they can come together without clashing. c.1790
Similar to the first example [...]

Tripod table
1. Made of heavy, dense mahogany.
2. Carving, dishing, piecrust or scalloping integral with table top, standing proud of the surface.
3. Grain of stem running from top to bottom without a break.
4. Proportions correct: when tilt top is vertical the sweep of the curve should not cut into the baluster, carving or decoration, or leave [...]

Pillar-and-claw table
1. Matching tops and pillar-andclaw supports – reeded edges to all pieces of table top including leaves, with reeded feet, legs and pillars.
2. Plain edges to table tops and leaves, with plain pillars, sometimes octagonal or polygonal, plain legs and feet.
3. Squared cast-brass shoes, plain swivelling castors with horizontal sockets more common on period [...]

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. [...]