Felt Game Tables

A late 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted mahogany, Kingwood and Satiné Parquetry card table By François Linke D-shaped hinged top with rope twist border opening u...

A fun and unusual 19th century Victorian English mahogany Bagatelle game board table with nicely aged patina. Featuring a rectangular folding portable game board with warm, rich mahogany wood case exterior, and a patinated brass hinged lid lift top that flips open to extend and reveal the baize (green felt like billiards material) lined gaming surface with semi-circular bentwood bumper at one end adorned with nine numbered holes, arranged with one in the center of the bentwood gallery and the rest surrounding it evenly in a ring. Framing the board, twenty-four contrasting inlay panels set with five holes run along either side of the board, originally used to keep score. circa 1890 The game board rests partially inset in a fitted mahogany stand base, raised on four straight square legs joined by ‘H’ stretcher. A wonderful piece of game board history, originally designed to sit on top of a dining table or games table, this piece features a fitted stand, making it the ideal size and proportions for use as a one-of-a-kind coffee table, chair side table, cocktail table, low console, or simply displayed as a distinctive decorative folk art piece. Dimensions (approx): 18" High, 31.25" Wide, 15.75" Deep Open: 60" Wide Good condition overall, especially considering age. Dark rich patina over the whole, enhanced by heavy buildup lustrous sheen and antique mahogany glow. No game pieces or accessories included. Age appropriate wear including various imperfections, with expected signs of use, including losses, checking, wear to finish and baize liner, staining, minor splitting to bent wood, all wear consistent with age and indicative of use. All of which adds to the elegant warmth, sophisticated antique character, and overall authenticity. Please refer to photography for complete condition. Delivered lightly cleaned, hand waxed, polished French patina finish, ready for immediate use as furniture. History: The origins of Bagatelle (or its many iterations) are even less clear than most games of a similar history, although we do know it has ties to French Kings, American President Abraham Lincoln, and developed into bar billiards, eventually leading to the development of pachinko and pinball. Bagatelle was a game involving sticks and balls that evolved from efforts to bring outdoor games like ground billiards, croquet, and bowling inside for play during inclement weather. Dating all the way back to the 15th century, the most recent version came about in the 18th century. In France, during the long 1643–1715 reign of Louis XIV, billiard tables were narrowed, with wooden pins or skittles at one end of the table, and players would shoot balls with a stick or cue from the other end, in a game inspired as much by bowling as billiards. Pins took too long to reset when knocked down, so they were eventually fixed to the table, and holes in the bed of the table became the targets. Players could ricochet balls off the pins to achieve the harder scorable holes. Quite a number of variations on this theme were developed. In 1777 a party was thrown in honour of Louis XVI and the queen at the Château de Bagatelle, recently erected at great expense by the king's brother, the Count of Artois. Bagatelle from Italian bagattella, signifies 'a trifle', 'a decorative thing'. The highlight of the party was a new table game featuring a slender table and cue sticks, which players used to shoot ivory balls up an inclined playfield. The game was dubbed bagatelle by the count and shortly after swept through France. From 1770 to 1850 Bagatelle was just as popular as Billiards throughout England and Britain. Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle tables...

Elegant oak and brass Golden West pool table made in Canoga Park, California as part of Golden West's "Designer Series". Good condition to wood with wear as shown. Brass band trim ar...

For Restoration. Provenance: Ganz estate, Tuxedo Park, NY. A handsome games table in triangular hinged form with ebonized detailed figured wood frame. French style with shaped and s...

Antique French Regence Style Flip-Top Game Table will make an elegant console or end table, and when someone in the family or guests want to engage in a game or cards, chess or other...

Pair of English mahogany foliage pedestal hinged game tables with flanking scrolled corners, gadrooned skirts, baize card playing surfaces, open interiors for storage, and resting bun feet with the original brass casters, Early 19th century. Pair of Game Tables...

A beautiful faux snakeskin leather game table with a removable top. The top is two sided and the bottom is covered in felt for card games. The top removes and underneath is a lovely ...

Tessellated stone mosaic design console table w/ reversible chess / checkers / backgammon brass inlaid game boards in ivory, light gray and pale rouge stone. Circa 1970's. Look at a...

English Queen Anne Carved Walnut Work/Games Table, 19th c., the gadrooned edge top opening to a leather inset gaming surface over a pull out backgammon board above a compartmented se...

A rare small scaled Queen Anne flip top concertina action game table in walnut and book matched and figured walnut veneers. The gaming surface is designed with lieu pockets, turreted...

Louis XV style with serpentine hinged banded top with diamond pattern parquet. With matching patterned brass edge apron panels and center leafy brass mount and matching shaped side p...

This mid-twentieth century French ebonized game table features bronze detailing and a palisander top that is reversible with a green felt top card playing surface on the opposite sid...

Step back into the 1940s with this sophisticated game table in chrome-plated metal, attributed to Jean-Boris LACROIX. The removable tubular base seamlessly tucks away beneath the ta...

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**Table available now is in Light Grey** The classic James de Wulf Concrete Billiards Table is a staple to any game room. The regulation sized table is constructed of concrete reinf...

A classic mahogany Luis Filipe rectangular game table with 4 turned legs and top that opens in two forming a square table and revealing a round green felt rug.

A French Antique Ormolu-Mounted mahogany envelope games card table, C. 1870, attributed to Henry Dasson. A very elegant and high quality, French Louis XVI style, mahogany and bro...

Decorate a game room or a den with this elegant folding card table. Crafted in France circa 1930 and built of mahogany wood, the square table stands on tapered legs, and dressed with...

Decorate a game room or a den with this elegant folding card table. Crafted in France circa 1930 and built of mahogany wood with marquetry bands throughout, the square table stands o...

An Italian walnut and mahogany game table from the 19th century with checkerboard marquetry sliding top and tapering legs. Behold a statement of Italian craftsmanship—this 19th-centu...

Rare and exceptional "Parsons Style Backgammon Table" in lacquered goatskin with brass trim, backgammon board with inset gray and ox blo...

20th c., French Provincial Louis XV style triangular corner games table with a hinged top opening to a green baize gaming surface. The table folds out to a square on four curved corn...

Decorate a game room or a den with this elegant folding card table. Crafted in France circa 1930 and built of mahogany wood with marquetry and inlay decor throughout, the rectangular...

Game table with chairs, leather, faux leather, coated steel, chrome-plated steel, felt, laminate, plastic, aluminum, Italy, 1970s This set, c...

Very rare gaming table, with a fascinatingly executed folding mechanism. This object was made in England, around 1920, in the Art Deco period. When unfolded, a playing surface appea...

Louis XVI style tulip wood, birch and king wood fold over games table, circa 1930's. The top with a central star inlay, aprons with tulip wood panels framed with birch string inlay s...

The classic James de Wulf concrete Billiards Table is a staple to any game room. The regulation sized table is constructed of concrete reinforced with ...

Renato Meneghetti, 'Cubo' game table, brass, felt, metal, wood, Italy, 1970s Designed by Renato Meneghetti circa 1970, this rare transforming 'Cubo' gaming table has great practical...

Amazing workmanship sidetable, also for unforgettable games of poker, bridge etc. If you are looking for a beautiful sidetable to grace your living space then this all handcrafted specimen from the earliest years of the 20th century could be flying your way soon. This remarkable table with its amazingly hand-carved details and superb claw feet is extra rare, because it is made in the Chippendale Style. And the craftsmanship that was put into creating this antique would make Thomas Chippendale himself proud. You will hardly ever find a Chippendale Style table (or any other antique table for that matter) with such stunningly hand-carved details and for them to be as good as new after one hundred years shows that former owners too understood the importance of and the respect that one should have for this quality made piece. Apart from some minor imperfections to the table top the entire exterior AND interior of this table could not be in better condition. Even the original, inlaid, green felt 'playing field' of this table is as close to perfect as possible. This rare antique is both elegant and stately at the same time and for it not to have a maker's name on it, is strange to say the least. Because of the design, the quality of the make and the beauty of the materials, we believe this piece can only have been made by one of the European top makers from that era. By first pulling the rear legs out and then folding the top, this Chippendale table can be turned into a beautiful games table with a fine felt surface. Have you also noticed the practical and mint condition, solid tiger oak compartment that appears when you pull out the hind legs? That is where you can keep your cards and chips and maybe some board games. When closed, this also is the perfect sidetable for displaying an antique clock...

A rare mid-century modern game table By Michel Arnoult for Forene S.A. Moveis do Nordeste, "Alagoas Collection" Brazil, 1978 Brazilian rosewood, with green felt to one side ...

Rinck - established in 1841 and directed by Maurice Rinck in the Art Deco / mid-century period. A fine game / tea table in elm with a reversible top (wood on one side and felt on the other) with four tapered legs and chrome cup...

Incredible midcentury round ebonized beech and brass game table with two glass shelves. This fantastic table is designed in the style of Gio Ponti and was produced in Italy during th...

This funky game table is a great way to add tons of character to any room without sacrificing too much space. Twisting the folded top clockwise will raise one of the envelope triangles with a simple mechanism on the interior of the fold. Once raised it is easy to open the rest of the table top to reveal a green felt playing surface and four counter wells. The felt is in good antique condition with minor wear. The apron houses a single drawer to easily store and access your cards, chips, or dominos. Rectangular, tapered legs support the whole. A very thin band...

A rare and unusual early 19th century richly patinated fruitwood turn over leaf card table in lovely original condition, finely hand carved with stunning detail throughout. The mould...

Stylish antique sidetable, also for unforgettable games of poker, bridge etc. If you are looking for a beautiful antique sidetable to grace your liv...

These exceptional Regency card tables were designed with dual purposes in mind. Crafted of rosewood, the tables serve as attractive console tables when closed. When opened, the table...

This is a quality William IV antique rosewood card/side table with a lovely figured rosewood crossbanded top that lifts up and swivels to reveal the original green baize interior, ro...

A 19th century French Empire Period mahogany gueridon, or game table, with Grey St. Anne marble top. A versatile table with removeable top, one side with green felt and the other wit...

An 18th century Louis XVI period French Mahogany Trictrac table with gilt brass trims throughout. This museum quality piece in the manner of Riesener (Marie Antoinette’s favorite ébé...

Early 20th century, similar to the Carambol billard table designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1903 for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium - see the enclosed image. ...

Italian game table for bridge, cards and poker by Pierluigi Molinari (Milan, 1938) for Pozzi Milano. Structure in lacquered ebony wood. The four cub...

Exclusive Louis XIV Italian Genoese corner card table realized in rosewood and bois de rose, this elegant antique fold over game table dat...

The square hinged handkerchief top rotating open to reveal a felt interior, the shaped frieze with one drawer, the whole with ormolu-mounts. Closed...

Game table in Cerused oak by Jacques Grange designed for Yves Saint Laurent's studio in Avenue de Breteuil. The table top has one side in felt and one side in Cerused oak. Original...

The classic James de Wulf Concrete Billiards Table is a staple to any game room. The regulation sized table is constructed of concrete reinforced with ...

A 19th century Chippendale style swivel fold-over card table that cleverly transforms from a narrow side table into a square, red felt-covered gaming surface. The slender and elegant...

Austrian/Vienna 1st half of 19th century Biedermeier walnut game flip flop top table, ca. 1840: A Biedermeier extending game table made of wal...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely sublime fully restored one of a kind Louis XVI circa 1780 period Tric Trac games table in Walnut, Hardwood and brown leather An image of Marie-Antoinette’s games room, the ‘Salon de la Paix’ at Versailles showing no fewer than four Tric Trac tables. Games tables were highly fashionable at Versailles and the queen organised gambling evenings several times a week losing huge amounts of money. She had to ask for the king’s financial support which he usually offered happily, despite the royal ban on gaming! The Salon de la Paix was was located on the first floor of the chateau next to the queens bedchamber. This is an exceptional piece of art furniture, dating to the late 18th century its French with a walnut frame, hardwood backgammon table, hand dyed brown leather chess board leather...

A wonderful late 19th century gilt bronze mounted parquetry envelope game table by François Linke François Linke – Index no. 523 The revolving top wi...

Pair of English Edwardian style painted satinwood, demilune shaped, console games tables, mid-20th century. Paint decorated with floral and musical trophies. Inside games surface is ...

French Louis XV period (18th century) "Tric Trac" or Backgammon table stamped by the maker, "P. Roussel," and the guild "JME" (Jurande des Menuisiers et Ebenistes --translated as the...

A 3-pieces set of game and/or dining tables by Italian manufacturer Sormani, carried out for a contract work in the USA in 1986. These three tables are an example of very functional ...

French Art Deco square mahogany and amboyna pedestal base flip top game table with felt side and an inlaid chess / checkerboard side (att: Selmerc...

English Regency figured kings wood hinged game table with interior baize, ebony string inlays, double supporting gate legs, and terminating on the original cast brass reeded casters,...

French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) demilune shaped double flip top console/game table with brass trim

This 18th century game table is made of fruitwood with an inlaid checker board on top. The table has storage space for game pieces beneath the top, and the top folds open to reveal a...

Vintage 19th century felted game table. In transitional style with stylistic elements of Louis XV and Louis XVI. Bow shaped scalloped apron with rectangular legs. Cream colored fel...

Wonderfully chic snow white, brass and glass pool table from the 1980s. Full length 9 foot table. Handmade by Murrey & Sons in Los Angeles. Nacre (Mot...