Rare 19th Century Caribbean/West Indies Tilt Top Gaming Table with Specimen Top

This West Indies center table has an English influence. This piece is published in " West Indian Antique Furniture of the Lesser Antilles...

A 19th century mahogany Caribbean tilt-top center or dining table featuring a West Indies turned and carved pedestal and carved feet.

This British Colonial center table uses exotic wood veneers to create a spectacular spiral, fanning clockwise with contrasting exotic specimen woods ...

A tilt-top tea table from Barbados that sits on a urn-shaped pedestal with four, reeded sabre legs ending in brass claw toes, circa 1810.

An intriguing cedrela and rosewood tripod pedestal table from Tobago, circa 1885, featuring a specimen top with labeled exotic woods. The handwritten labels underneath catalog each o...

This extraordinary octagonal center table has a specimen marble chess table-top with Pietra Dura semi-precious stones. The late Regency specimen mar...

19th century late Regency English game table.

19th Napoleon III console marquetry game table with folding and rotating tabletop with inlaid foliage decoration of acanthus leaves, griffins, mascarons and snakes, ebonized legs and...

A 19th century English tilt-top game checkerboard or card table. This single pedestal flip top game table sits on a tri pod base and is fu...

A French Louis XVI style walnut bouillotte table from the 19th century with white marble top, brass accents, single drawer and fluted legs. Cre...

A very interesting late 19th century Italian gilt bronze specimen marble top game table The inlaid circular top with a chess board design and surrounded with a variety of marbles ...

Very nice game table on high legs style Louis XV from the Napoleon 3 period of the 19th century. The wood is finely inlaid with floral and vegetal motifs. The legs are curved, the tips of the legs are in metal, while metal decorations are present on the tops of the legs. The table opens to the depth and rotates to the length. The game board, once opened, is held in place by a drawer that opens on the right side (also serving as storage for the games). The table top measures 116cm (45.6 inch) x 58cm (22.8 inch) Very fine and sophisticated work, this table will give elegance to any type of interior decoration. The Louis XIV style is a furnishing style covering more or less the period of the reign of Louis XIV (1661 to 1715). This style is characterized by the majesty and richness of its furnishings. The Louis XIV style follows the Louis XIII style. The furniture is increasingly luxurious, but unlike previous styles, it is almost no longer inspired by architecture. There are two kinds of furniture: ceremonial furniture richly decorated with veneers and inlays (especially with André-Charles Boulle), solid giltwood and bourgeois furniture in solid wood. The style is characterized above all by its absolute symmetry and an important and ostentatious Dimension. The Louis XIV style is of Italian and ancient inspiration. The style emerged with the advent of the reign of Louis XIV in 1661 and lasted until the end of the 17th century. In 1690, on the death of Lebrun, decorator to the King, the style declined and was gradually replaced by the Regency style. The Palace of Versailles is obviously extremely and lastingly marked by the Louis XIV style. His long reign made it possible to impose the unique style of the Grand...