Antique Loo Table, Antique Coffee Table, Burr Walnut, Scotland, B920

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Antique Loo Table, Antique Coffee Table, Burr Walnut, Scotland, B920

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Antique Loo Table, Antique Coffee Table, Inlaid Victorian Table, Loo Table, Burr Walnut, Scotland 1870, Antique Furniture, B920 Scotland, 1870 Walnut and Walnut Veneers Original Finish Reduced to Coffee Table Height Oval Shaped Top is Magnificently Quarter Veneered in Highly Figured Burr Walnut Moulded Edge around the top Sits on a Carved Central Column Four Carved Legs ending on White Castors $1850 B920 57"w x 42"d x 18.5"h Shipping $375 by Freight THE LOO TABLE The Loo table or tilt top table is a type of table from the 18th and 19th centuries. They were originally designed for the card game loo, which was also known as lanterloo. The name of the game is from the French lenturlu, a meaningless refrain used in lullabies, equivalent to ‘lullay, lulloo’. antique tilt top table Lanterloo was a trivial and somewhat disreputable trick-taking game for five or more players. It was equally popular as a gambling game, when it could get quite vicious, or as a mild domestic pastime, such as it appears in the novels of Jane Austen. The game’s twofold personality extends equally to its form, there being two closely related games of the same name, one being played with three cards and the other with five. Both reached England from France probably with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. antique tilt top table The basic idea in both games is that a pool is formed and each player is dealt three (or five) cards. Having seen their hand, they can either abandon it free of charge, or elect to play, thereby undertaking to win at least one trick for one third (or one fifth) of the pool. Any player failing to do so is ‘looed’ and adds an amount to the pool, which is carried forward and further increased. In Limited Loo this amount is small and fixed. In Unlimited Loo it is the amount currently in the pool, which enables it to reach astronomic proportions in a short space of time, often resulting in the sort of spectacular ruins that gave the game such a bad reputation in the 18th and 19th centuries.antique tilt top table The typical tilt top table or loo table has an oval or round top, and a hinged mechanism fitted to a pedestal base, enabling the table to be easily stored when not in use. Sometimes, antique dealers call any table with a folding mechanism a “loo table”, even if the table top is square or rectangular but a tilt top table is typically oval. A loo-table stands in the hall at Midnight Place in the children’s fiction book Midnight is a Place by Joan Aiken.

Dimensions:
Height: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)Width: 57 in (144.78 cm)Depth: 42 in (106.68 cm)
Style:
Victorian (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Walnut,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
Scotland
Period:
1870-1879
Date of Manufacture:
1870
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Vancouver, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: B9201stDibs: LU91139660411