Louis XV Style Marquetry Games Table, circa 1870

A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry inlaid envelope card table. French, circa 1890. This fine card table has a swivel top, with four 'envelope' panels inlaid with m...

A fine pair of Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted marquetry inlaid card tables. French, circa 1880. Each table has a serpentine-shaped fold over top finely inlaid with marquetry de...

A fine pair of gilt-bronze mounted Marquetry inlaid card tables with Sèvres-style porcelain plaques. English, circa 1870. Each table has a rec...

A rare and highly important Russian imperial period gilt-bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid, triple turn-over games table. St. Petersburg, circa 1820. This rare and elegant marquetry games table, or Lomberian, is representative of the golden age of Russian craftsmanship of the early nineteenth century. The table, in keeping with courtly pursuits of the day, has a triple turn-over top, opening successively to reveal a chess board and a leather playing surface for cards. The upper surface is veneered with exceptional marquetry inlay in stained sycamore, holly, boxwood, and Russian native timbers. It is centred by an oval roundel with a decorative and highly unusual still-life tableau of playing cards and dice. The distinctive form of the decorative marquetry inlay and the use of rich indigenous timbers confirm the Russian origin of this table. The flowering tendrils being a distinctive feature of the work of a small group of St Petersburg cabinet makers such as Nikifor Vasilyev and Matvei Veretennikov. Both of these master cabinet makers were serfs, Veretennikov belonging to Count Alexander Vasilievich Soltikov and Vassilyev belonging to the Sheremetev estate. It is interesting to note, that of the small number of known masterpieces by these makers, two of them are elaborately inlaid gaming tables, confirming its importance as a furniture type amongst the Upper Classes of the period. A late 18th century marquetry...

A Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted marquetry salon table by Mercier Frères. French, circa 1900. This fine petite salon table has a shaped gilt-bronze banded top inlaid with ...

A Fine and Rare Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Occasional Table. By Emmanuel Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley. Paris. France, Circa 1885. The top with marquetry of precious fruitwoods and rare timbers depicting a central cartouche of two monkeys standing in a classical landscape, dressed as men playing a drum and a tambourine. The surrounding marquetry composed of rocaille framed trellis parquetry panels with musical attributes. The shaped top surrounded by a three-quarter gilt-bronze gallery. The top slides back and the drawer opens to reveal a writing tray. The serpentine sides with cartouches with flower-filled marquetry. On cabriole legs headed by gilt-bronze rocaille clasps. Beautifully rendered by Beurdeley this ‘table Singeries’ is ennobled with the fullest frivolity of the rococo. The marquetry scene on the top derives from engravings published in Paris in the mid-eighteenth century entitled ‘Le Tambour de Basque’ and 'Le Tambourin’ by J. Guelard after designs by Christophe Huet (died 1759) from a series entitled ‘Singeries ou Différentes Actions de la Vie Humaine Representées par des Singes’. The present writing table is almost identical to an 18th century table in the James A. de Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor (inv. 3472) which was purchased by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild at the legendary auction of Prince Demidov’s Florentine Palazzo San Donato in 1880 (Lot 1554 — Très jolie table...

Louis XV-style fruitwood games table an inset gilt-tooled leather surface, above a conforming frieze with a small drawer to each side, raised on cabriole legs headed by ormolu mounts...

Louis XV Style Ebonized games table, or table a jeux, rectangular, the burl and fruitwood veneered top with checkerboard above a single drawer, the molded...

Square top with tooled brown leather over a shaped apron with four drawers, raised on cabriole legs. Provenance; Sophie H. Gimbel.

A unique scale French mid 19th century Louis XV st. tulipwood and kingwood marquetry games table. The table is raised on canriole legs with pierced ormolu sabots. At the scalloped fr...

Louis XV grey painted games / card table with black leather playing surface with embossed / tooled center decoration and border, four (4) small drawers, one (1) on each side for each...

2 drawers and 2 pullout leathered extentions. With tapered legs and bronze feet.