English Toleware Terrier Portrait Tray on Stand

Elegant pair of English tole or toleware tray tables featuring later faux bamboo brass bases. Gorgeous hand-painted trays with scalloped edges. Sup...

A handsome English end table or side table of oak, each featuring a removable serving or butler's tray, with a fitted stretcher base. Great for display next to upholstered furniture!

Pheromonal antique tomato red chinoiserie tray on a later painted tray.

A Good Quality Regency Period Oblong Papier Mache Tray With Very Attractive Hand Painted And Gilded Decoration Raised On Elegant Later Faux Bamboo Design Stand.  What better way t...

English scalloped paper mache tray on stand with hand painted floral decoration. Stand was made for tray at later date. Dealers please call...

A good quality George III period mahogany oval butlers tray of panelled construction, having original brass hinges and pierced handles to folding sides, housed on later square leg mahogany stand. During the 18th and 19th centuries a coffee table was not what we regard as a coffee table in the 21st century. Coffee tables back then were always full height, effectively side tables. The modern, low, coffee table is really something which began to be seen during the early 20th century onwards. Based on the above there is a variety of different methods to incorporate a coffee table into an interior for people who wish to furnish their properties with genuine antique furniture, whilst still allowing for the practicalities and function which is required in modern times. Therefore as is now normal with by far the majority of these butlers trays which we see, due to the fact they make absolutely perfect coffee tables, this has been removed from its original, tall, folding stand at some point and fitted onto a lower, more practical and sturdy stand constructed from old antique wood. It's worth noting that generally this means an old broken table...