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George IV Ebony-Inlaid Mahogany Tilt-Top Centre Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A George IV ebony-inlaid mahogany tilt-top centre table, the circular top with a flame-veneered cross-banded border above a moulded frieze with ebony stringing and four small rectang...
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1820s English George IV Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Ebony, Mahogany
Burr Walnut and Ormolu-Mounted Centre Table with Superb Quartered Veneered Top
By Holland & Sons
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An exhibition quality burr walnut and ormolu-mounted centre table with superb quartered veneered top. Attributed to Holland and Sons or Gillows.
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Mid-19th Century British Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Marquetry Centre Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and marquetry centre table.
This impressive centre table is beautifully enriched with cuivre doré mounts. The top has a lozenge pattern parquetry gro...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Ormolu
Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Parquetry Circular Centre Table
Located in London, GB
Louis XV style gilt bronze and parquetry circular centre table
French, 19th Century,
Height 77cm, Diameter 85cm
Made in France in the 19th century, this excellent table is in the ri...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Ormolu
Antique Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Table by L'Escalier de Cristal
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in London, GB
This superb piece is an antique ormolu mounted Louis XV style table, masterfully crafted with kingwood, tulipwood, and parquetry, by the famed Parisian firm L'Escalier de Cristal. Th...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble
19th Century Chinoiserie Lacquer Occasional Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative early 19th century French Chinoiserie lacquer, ormolu mounted side table, having a three quarter brass gallery around the lacquer top, depicting a classical Chinese scene of a pagoda house...
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19th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Lacquer
Mahogany, sycamore, and silk marquetry inlay centre table
Located in London, GB
Mahogany, sycamore, and silk marquetry inlay centre table
English and French, 19th century
84cm wide x 63cm deep x 72.5cm high
This nineteenth cent...
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Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Silk, Mahogany, Sycamore
Antique Ormolu Mounted Centre Table by Zwiener Jansen Successeur
By Zwiener Jansen Successeur
Located in London, GB
This fine, antique table is by celebrated French cabinetmaker Zwiener Jansen Successeur, part of the celebrated furniture and interior design house Maison Jansen which was founded in...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Gilt-Bronze Mounted Guéridon, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style mahogany gilt bronze mounted Guéridon.
This fine gilt bronze mounted mahogany Guéridon has a green marble top inset within a gilt bronze frame, above a frie...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
English 19th Century Walnut Occasional Table with Watercolor Top
Located in London, GB
Constructed in walnut; rising from a quadripartite base, the cabriole and hipped legs with scrolled toes, and a central carved oblate pendant finial; the tapering and turned column, ...
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19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Glass, Paint, Walnut
Early Victorian Walnut Marquetry Centre Table
By Edward Holmes Baldock
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An early Victorian walnut marquetry centre table, attributed to Edward Holmes Baldock, of circular form with a superb quarter veneered burr waln...
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1840s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Walnut
A Rare Belle Epoque Parquetry Inlaid Centre Table, By François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare Belle Epoque Gilt-Bronze Mounted Parquetry Inlaid Centre Table, By François Linke. The Mounts Designed by Léon Messagé.
Signed 'F. Linke'.
This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within a gilt-bronze moulded surround signed 'F. Linke'. The curved frieze centred to each side by a shell shaped mount. The front fitted with a central drawer. The apron mounted with swept acanthus and trailing hibiscus. The corners with female busts with ribbon-tied bodices. On cabriole legs.
France, Circa 1900.
Linke, François
François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Wood
English Satinwood and Marquetry Centre Table by James Plucknett of Warwick
Located in London, GB
A fine Marquetry centre table by James Plucknett of Warwick
Of rectangular bow ended form, constructed in satinwood, and inlaid with specimen wood marquetry work on the platform; rising from toupie feet, the four finely carved caryatid female supports have a conjoined stylised 'X' form stretcher with a dished bowl at the centre; the apron housing a series of foliate carved entablatures, and the platform extensively inlaid with neoclassical designs of trophies, and floral arabesques. Bearing a label underneath the platform with the makers' name,
circa 1890.
James Plucknett, having had various partners in his company, operated as a sole trader from 1886-1905, the year of his death. He advertised his work as 'manufacturers of rich carved furniture', trading as 'James Plucknett & Co Art Furniture Manufacturers'. His commissions included The Royal Pavilion for the Royal Warwick...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Wood, Satinwood
Louis XV Walnut Table with Galleried Top, circa 1780
Located in valatie, NY
Louis XV walnut table with galleried top, circa 1780. The table has a scalloped apron, a scalloped drawer on each side, and cabriolet legs that e...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Walnut
Flemish Baroque Marquetry Decorated Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine 19th century Flemish ebony center or writing table having floral marquetry inlay inlaid bone insects on a walnut, ebony and faux tortoise backg...
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1860s Belgian Baroque Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell, Ebony
$12,500 Sale Price
48% Off
Mid 19th Century Bird's-Eye Maple Centre Table on Bun Feet
Located in London, GB
A fine mid-19th century bird's-eye maple centre table by Taprell and Holland & Sons, having circular rosewood scrolled crossbanded top, above shaped ba...
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19th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Rosewood
Regency Burl Elm And Giltwood Center Table
Located in Essex, MA
With a circular hinged top with wonderful caramel color burl and conforming apron raised on an acanthus carved baluster support joining a quadripartit...
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1810s English Regency Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Elm, Giltwood
Leather Top Octagonal Center Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
A substantial Arts & Crafts center table with a leather covered octagonal top with studded edges, standing on four tapered square legs joined by X-s...
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Early 1900s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Leather, Oak
Centre Table Attributed to Holland and Sons Related to a Table in Clarence House
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A centre table attributed to Holland and Sons related to a table in Clarence House, this exceptional table has a circular top decorated with six radiating amboyna veneers with a border of concentric marquetry rings. The decoration comprising kingwood bands within boxwood stringing, a continuous boxwood laurel wreath with ivory berries on a satinwood ground and further amboyna borders. The frieze has amboyna crossbanding and applied ormolu sunburst medallions. The support is composed of purpleheart columns inlaid with kingwood, terminating in low splayed feet, which encircle a classical urn on a plinth. The superb ormolu mounts include acanthus leaves, classical masks and patera. English, circa 1860.
A table with a similar base and particularly fine ormolu mounts was exhibited by Holland and Sons in the International Exhibition in 1862 and illustrated as plate 40 in J. B. Waring’s book (see pages 100-103 for further references to this exhibition). A further closely related piece was in the collection of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and is shown in the Morning Room in Clarence House in the Daily Mail’s article ‘Inside the private world of Prince Charles’, November 2018. Originally founded by Stephen Taprell and William Holland...
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1860s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Boxwood, Kingwood, Satinwood, Amboyna
19th Century Chinese Hardwood Centre Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality early 19th century Chinese hardwood centre table. Having an inset rouge marble top with brass inlay to the cr...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Mid-Century Faux Tusk Centre Table
Located in Kent, Dover
A French mid-century faux tusk centre table. On an acrylic triangular base with brass feet, the three life like tusks, supporting a circular clear plate gl...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Brass
Flame Mahogany Gueridon with a Reversible Baise Lined Top, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine gilt-bronze mounted flame mahogany and Satine Gueridon with a reversible baise lined top.
French, circa 1890.
This fine gueridon has a circular top veneered in flame ma...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
Flemish Baroque Tavern Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good 17th century Flemish oak oval hunt or tavern table having unusual hook ends over turned legs joined by shoe feet, the whole possessing mellow silvery brown patina.
Width listed...
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1680s Belgian Baroque Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Iron
19th Century French Mahogany Gueridon Table
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century French mahogany gueridon table having circular moulded grey marble top raised on reeded turned tapering column and scrolled leaf-carved tripod base ending on bo...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Late Regency Center Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
English Regency Rosewood center table with well grained top over octagonal center column having downswept legs ending in original...
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1830s English Regency Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Brass
$10,900
19th Century Arts and Crafts Oak Table by James Shoolbred
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A very attractive blonde oak centre table by James Shoolbred. The table is raised on turned and fluted legs, united by an X-framed stretcher with bobbin turned decoration, the table edge is also carved. The underside of the table has a plaque with Shoolbred’s London trade details, ‘James Shoolbred & Co. Tottenham House, Tottenham Court Road, London’.
James Shoolbred & Co were established in the 1820s and started out as a draper and later became a department store in Tottenham Court Road. Shoolbred expanded into the stores either side and by the 1870s they were designing, manufacturing and selling high quality furniture, until 1931 when the company ceased trading.
James Shoolbred was one of many who specialised in furniture of the Aesthetic Movement, although they also used fashionable trends of the time like Japanese...
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1870s English Arts and Crafts Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Oak
Louis XIV Marquetry and Ebonized Writing / Center Table
Located in Essex, MA
A very fine table with exquisite floral marquetry top with central urn of flowers surrounded by flowers and birds all within scrolling arabesques. Carved giltwood edge.Containing a f...
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1690s French Baroque Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Boxwood
English William IV Mahogany Occasional Table
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
K071 Fine quality mahogany lamp or occasional table, having tooled leather circular top raised on slander turned and carved column terminating in circular moulded base and 3 shaped f...
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1830s English William IV Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Leather, Mahogany
$1,289 Sale Price
37% Off
Early Victorian Rosewood, Burl Walnut and Elm Center Table
Located in Essex, MA
Twelve sided dodecagon hinged top with elaborate sunburst central inlay with outer band sunburst with elm outer banding, conforming apron with carved details, on a inverted vase supp...
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1840s English Early Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Birch, Boxwood, Elm, Mahogany, Rosewood, Burl
French Center Table in the Manner of Andre-Charles Boulle
By Charles-Guillaume Diehl
Located in London, GB
A Centre Table in the Manner of Andre-Charles Boulle
By Charles-Guillaume Diehl
Of rectangular form, constructed in Bois Noirci and cut brass, using complex arabesque designs in the manner of Jean Berain; rising from square tapering collared legs conjoined by a stylised stretcher of ‘X’ form issuing from a central tablet; having three drawers to the frieze.
French, Circa 1860
Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811–1885).
Diehl was a German born cabinetmaker that worked and ran workshops in France from circa 1840 until 1885, specialising in small decorative cabinets...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Three-Tier Dumb Waiter, Mahogany, 18th Century
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Georgian three-tier mahogany dumb waiter. The round revolving graduating shelves are supported on a turned tapering central column that unites on a tripod base with down-swept curved...
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1790s English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Mahogany
Swedish Empire Center Table
Located in Essex, MA
Circular top with wood edge surrounding a geometric mosaic of hard stones raised on a triangular tapered column and tripartite base with gilded scroll feet. From the estate of Willia...
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1820s Swedish Empire Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Walnut Center Table
Located in Cheshire, GB
Walnut library table, the large rectangular top with rounded ends and crossbanded border. Raised up on twin pillar ends with circular reeded columns terminating in outswept legs and ...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Walnut
$2,451
Italian Baroque Walnut Trestle Table
Located in Hudson, NY
It has a wonderful old feeling. The wood is beautifully patinated and worn.
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Nutwood
Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Two-Tier Pastry Table
By Adam Weisweiler
Located in Long Island City, NY
An interesting late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted two-tier pastry table
Round marble-top table centered with an upper tier with a p...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Superb Quality 19th Century Walnut and Inlaid Centre Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
A superb quality 19th Century walnut and inlaid centre table, the shaped top profusely inlaid with various decorative patterns, having an oval panel at the centre with a lovely figur...
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1860s British Early Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Walnut
Regency Period Center Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality Regency period breakfast table, raised on a square section pedestal, platform base with carved scrolling feet.
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19th Century English Regency Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Mahogany
Antique French Marquetry and Gilt Bronze Centre Table
Located in London, GB
This table is an exquisite piece of French antique furniture. The table is covered with beautiful marquetry work and finely-cast gilt bronze (ormolu) mounts.
The table features a...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Ormolu, Bronze
French walnut centre table
Located in Cheshire, GB
French walnut centre table of cartouche outline, the ebonised top inlaid with musical instruments and garlands flanked by cherubs and birds, with decorative gilt metal mounts to the ...
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Early 20th Century French Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Walnut
Satinwood Inlaid Centre Table
Located in Cheshire, GB
Edwardian satinwood inlaid centre table, the circular cross banded top centered by a boxwood and hardwood flower head motif, within a harebell swag...
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Early 20th Century British Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Satinwood
Rare 19th Century Sorrento Inlaid Table by Almerico Gargiulo
By Luigi Gargiulo
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A rare and fine quality 19th century Sorrento inlaid centre table,
signed; Almerico Gargiulo.
The central inlaid and painted panel depicting lovers dan...
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19th Century Italian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Fruitwood
Walnut Center Table
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century walnut writing table the shaped top with inset leather enclosed by a walnut banding. To the frieze fitted with gilt metal decoration...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Walnut
$3,222
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Gilt Bronze Centre Table by Paul Sormani, circa 1890
By Paul Sormani, Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style mahogany gilt bronze centre table after The Model by Jean-Henri Riesener by Paul Sormani.
French, circa 1890.
Stamped 'Paul Sormani 10 rue Charlot à Paris'.
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Bronze
Kingwood and Ormolu Antique French Parquetry Centre Table
Located in London, GB
This elegant Louis XVI style antique round table features parquetry decoration on its top, in starburst form. The top is bordered with ormolu banding, above rosewood skirting. Below ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Ormolu
Antique Regency Period Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Breakfast or Centre Table
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century Regency Period rosewood breakfast or centre table having brass inlaid crossbanded circular top raised of triangular stem ending on brass line inlaid concave tri...
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1810s English Regency Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Rosewood
William IV Colonial Padouk Round Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A William IV Colonial padouk five-foot round table, the solid circular top with a pierced frieze of paired volute scrolls, with blind fretwork and e...
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1830s Indian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Padouk
Russian Neoclassic Mahogany and Brass Mounted Table
Located in Essex, MA
Oval top with pressed brass edge over a frieze with a drawer raised on trestle lyre form legs, pierced oval stretcher and scroll feet. Provenance; Belosselsky-Belozersky.
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1830s English Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Other
Provençal Walnut and Scagliola Centre Table
Located in London, GB
A fine southern French (Provençal) walnut and scagliola centre table, circa 1850.
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1850s Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Scagliola, Walnut
Early 19th Century Mahogany Gueridon Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
Early 19th century mahogany French gueridon / center table with a grey marble top with a moulded edge, nice figured frieze below with a beaded edge, shaped tri-form base supported on...
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1820s French Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Mahogany
19th Century Rosewood Breakfast Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
19th century rosewood tilt top breakfast / centre table, with a beautifully figured top with frieze below, supported on a turned tulip shaped column with three carved cabriole legs t...
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1830s British Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Rare 19th Century Peters of Genoa Satinwood & Rosewood Centre Table
By Henry Thomas Peters
Located in Benington, Herts
A rare and finely constructed circular satinwood centre table most probably by Henry Thomas Peters of Genoa.
Italy Circa 1830.
The circular tilt top having a finely chosen cuts of book-matched West Indian satinwood veneer with a rosewood banded and moulded edge over a splayed in-curved quatroform base, terminating on four acanthus carved scrolled rosewood lions paw feet raised on brass castors.
A very fine table with wide cuts of satinwood which would have been extremely expensive in the early 19th Century. Inspired by the French Empire design as viewed through the lens of English Regency, in particular the designs of Thomas Hope of 1807, along with the construction all point to Henry Thomas Peters being the maker, active in Genova around 1820 to 1850, being one of the leading cabinet makers of the period obtaining the title of ‘cabinetmaker of his Majesty’.
Henry Thomas Peters’ English antecedents remain obscure although he probably began his career in England. However, he is not listed in Beard and Gilbert’s Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840. He arrived in Genoa in circa 1817, and by 1824 had established a workshop in Via Balbi, a neighbourhood in which the Royal Palace and other noble residences were located; today some of his works are preserved in the Palazzo Rosso, Genoa and were probably bequests from the various aristocratic families for whom he worked, including the Brignole Sale family.
Peters was appointed by the Court of Savoy and produced furniture for their palaces in Turin, Genoa and Racconigi including the Palazzo Reale. Notably, in 1841, furniture for the wedding of Prince Vittorio Emanuele. In 1846, Peters and his extensive workshop won the silver medal at the Esposizione dei Prodotti e delle Manifatture Nazionali. As pointed out Peters was famed for producing furniture with the technical accuracy typical of English but adapted to the late Italian Empire style.
A set of six Italian Giltwood...
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19th Century Italian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
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Rosewood, Satinwood
Mid 20th Century Brass Mounted Root Coffee Table With Oval Glass Top
Located in Benington, Herts
An unusual Mid 20th Century brass mounted root wood coffee table with oval glass top.
French circa 1970
A well designed root coffee table with an unusual shaped brass hammered ...
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20th Century French Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Brass
Victorian Mahogany Drum Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality Victorian period Mahogany drum table, having an inset leather top, four oak lined frieze drawers and four dummy, each with tur...
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19th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Mahogany Center Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
Early 20th century mahogany center table in the Chippendale style of serpentine form, on square legs with blind fret and pierced fret corner brackets terminating with block feet, the...
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1910s English Edwardian Vintage Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Gilt Bronze Mounted Centre Table with Marble Top
Located in London, GB
This elegant table was created in France during the Bourbon restoration, following the fall of Napoleon I in 1814. The table is designed in a refined Neoclassical style, which was po...
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Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Indian Red Lacquer Table
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
An unusually large Indian red lacquer table; the octagonal top is decorated with prancing elephants surrounded by a frieze of figures and the base ha...
Category
1890s Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Wood
$2,732
Centre Table in the Manner of Ince and Mayhew
By Mayhew & Ince
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A fine and rare George III centre table in the manner of Ince & Mayhew. In harewood with fine marquetry inlay. The shape is similar to some of the serpentine commodes of the 18th cen...
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1770s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Harewood
19th Century Coromandel and Inlaid Table Attributed to Jackson & Graham
By Jackson & Graham
Located in London, GB
A magnificent library table
Attributed to Jackson & Graham
Of free standing rectangular form, constructed in coromandel, with inlays in thuya, ebony, boxwood, and honeysuckle; the fluted legs rising from square brass castor-shod feet; the frieze housing two lockable drawers fitted with rare ‘tamper proof’ Chubb locks and having quadrant moulded cedar lined interiors; the platform having a central panel of beautifully chosen matched coromandel veneers, with an outer guard border of a running pattern of stylised anthemions; the ebony edges having a thumb nail moulding,
circa 1865
The firm of Jackson & Graham established in 1836 by Thomas Jackson and Peter Graham at 37 Oxford Street London, and for the next fifty years produced predominately high quality furniture and represented Britain at many of the international exhibitions. Their clients included Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, the Grand Khedive of Cairo and the royal palace in Siam. They were particularly noted for their fine marquetry work, the use of Wedgwood plaques, rare woods, and fine casting of bronze mounts. They engaged the leading designers of the period, inter alia, Owen Jones, Bruce Talbert, Alfred Lorimer and Eugene Prignot. In the mid-1850s the workforce was recorded as 250, and by 1875, the company was employing 600 workers. They were feted exhibitors at many of the Great Exhibitions of the 19th century, and frequent prize winners. At the Paris International Exhibition of 1878, the furniture jury noted of them ‘ the workmanship is so perfect that even with the aid of a magnifying glass scarcely the slightest imperfection is to be found’. In 1885 the company was absorbed by Collinson and Lock, who continued their standard of excellence.
Charles Chubb was apprenticed as a blacksmith before starting business as a ships’ ironmonger in Winchester. Jeremiah soon joined the business, and by 1818 the brothers had branched out into lockmaking, founding the famous Chubb Company.
The business really got started when Jeremiah Chubb patented his new ‘detector lock’ in 1818. The lock was constructed so that if someone tried to pick it or open it with the wrong key it became inoperable. To make the lock work again the owner had to use a special key supplied with the lock. The aim of the detector lock was to prevent burglaries, and to warn the owner that someone had tried to break into their property.
The lock soon became popular, and sales of the Chubbs’ products increased even more when they won a government competition to design a lock that could only be opened using its own key. After the invention of the detector lock, the Chubbs decided to move to Wolverhampton, which already had an established lock making industry. By 1838 they were making 28,000 locks a year at their Wolverhampton factory. Another product was added to the Chubb range in 1835 when a patent was taken out for a burglar resistant safe, and in 1837 the Chubb safe...
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19th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Brass
Elizabeth I Oak Table
Located in London, GB
AN ELIZABETH I OAK TABLE, CIRCA 1580.
With gadrooned frieze and massive baluster legs with ionic capitals. Previously a draw-leaf able, lacking extend...
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16th Century Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Oak
$29,423
Napoleon III Algerian Onyx-Marble Centre Table, by Maison Marnyhac
By Maison Marnyhac 1
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Napoleon III gilt-bronze and onyx centre table, By Maison Marnyhac, Paris.
Signed to the edge of the stretcher 'MAISON MARNYHAC 1. RUE DE LA PAIX PARIS'.
This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within stiff-leaf cast gilt-bronze border and guilloche patterned frieze. The legs modelled as female terms with arms crossed and holding atop their heads flower filled baskets. The lower part of the legs are formed as tapering pilasterrs joined by an elaborate loop stretcher with central platform.
France, Circa 1865
This table is exemplary of the finest luxury furniture made during the opulent Second Empire period. The use of Algerian onyx-marble is especially indicative of this period as it was not until the 1840s that the quarries near Constantine in Algeria, then under French rule, which had been abandoned since antiquity, were rediscovered. Alphonse Pallu et Cie presented the stone at the Exhibition of Algerian Products in Paris in 1860 and established the Compagnie des Marbres Onyx...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Antiques Associations Members Center Tables
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
