$3,900
Rustic Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
An early 19th century rustic vernacular cricket table with red wash having a round top with three spoke shaved pole legs fixed to a hewn underside block and joined by a "T" stretcher...
Ash, Pine, Paint
$7,500
Welsh Elm Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
A small cricket table in vividly grained elm having a thick hand-hewn cheese wheel dish top on three turned and shaped legs joined by a turned T-stretcher. Lovely mellow color. Wal...
Elm
18th Century Welsh Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A superb late 18th century cricket table with a wonderfully weathered double thickness walnut top. The splayed legs in ash are united by a wonderful T-shaped stretcher. A well prop...
Walnut
$2,067 / item
Oak and Mahogany Cricket Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
An English reclaimed oak veneered and mahogany cricket table, the circular planked top with a raised edge, on three splayed tapering legs joined by a triangular undertier. Dimensi...
Wood
Welsh 19th Century Pine Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A simple early 19th-century cricket table of excellent form from Carmarthenshire. Circular pine plank top over a triangular tier base on three square tapering legs. Excellent colou...
Pine
18th Century Primitive Welsh Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A superb late 18th century cricket table with a wonderfully weathered Welsh Yew wood top. The splayed legs in oak are united by a wonderful T-shaped stretcher. A well proportioned ...
Oak, Yew
Fine "Cheese-top" Cricket Table in Sycamore
Located in Harrodsburg, KY
A rustic "cheese-top" cricket table, so named because of the top's resemblance to a wheel of cheese.
Sycamore
English 19th Century Pine Cricket Table with Circular Top and Triangular Shelf
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English rustic pine cricket table from the 19th century, with circular top and triangular shelf.
Pine
English Rustic Cricket Table of Pine
Located in Austin, TX
A fine English cricket table of pine, in the rustic style, featuring a finely patinated traditional round or circular top over a tripod base with ogee frieze, triangular bottom tier,...
Metal
Rustic Welsh Cricket/ Side Table
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Low rustic 19th Century Welsh bleached and scrubbed oak cricket/ side table. 1860
Oak
Antique 18th C Rustic Welsh Cricket Table
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique 18th C Rustic Welsh Cricket Table
Wood
19th Century Rustic Elm Cricket Table
Located in Houston, TX
19th century elm cricket table with T-stretcher base. Rustic in shape not in finish.
Elm
Rustic Elm Wood Cricket Table
Located in London, GB
England, circa 1910 An early 20th century elm wood cricket table, the top naturally shaped and with its bark edge, supported on a tripod base with inverted tapering legs. Heigh...
Wood, Elm
Antique English Country Rustic Pine Cricket Table
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique English Country Rustic Pine Cricket Table
Pine
English Rustic 1880s Pine Cricket Tables with Round Top and Bobbin Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English pine cricket table from the late 19th century, with bobbin legs and round top. Born in England during the last quarter of the 19th century, this charming cricket table fea...
Pine
Welsh Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A simply wonderful early 19th-century cricket table from a tavern in Anglesey. Circular plank top over triangular tier base on three square tapering legs. Great colour and form. W...
Pine
English Cricket Table of Oak
Located in Austin, TX
A fine English cricket table of oak featuring the traditional round or circular top over a tripod base with triangular under-tier shelf. Makes a nice occasional table or side tabl...
Wood, Oak
Welsh Pine Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A simple early 19th-century cricket table of good form with a cupid's bow frieze. Circular plank top made of teak over triangular tier base on three square tapering legs. Great col...
Pine
Welsh Pine Cricket Table
Located in Chireno, TX
Welsh pine cricket table circa 1840 with under-shelf. Naturally bleached with old repairs. Good sturdy condition.
Pine
English Oak Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A mid-19th century English cricket table in oak with a wonderfully weathered patinated top. Beneath a symmetrical waved frieze over a triangular tier base and raised on square secti...
Oak
18th Century Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A primitive late 18th-century pine cricket table of great proportions, once used in a Welsh dairy. From the beautifully weathered tabletop, we can assume that it once had an oil clo...
Pine
18th Century English Cricket Table
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking 18th century English pine cricket table with three tapered legs, a round top, and a wonderfully scrolled apron. Cricket tables were designed with three legs to be more acc...
Pine
Diminutive Scrubbed Elm Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good early 19th century scrubbed elm cricket table, the single board top with 'elm twist' surface and with banded edge, over three splayed legs joined by under tier stretcher base al...
Elm
18th Century English Cricket Table
Located in Chicago, IL
A simple 18th century English cricket table with clean lines, including three gently tapered legs pegged to a square apron, and a round top with a beautiful well-worn finish. Cricket...
Oak
Bleached Cricket Table, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
A bleached round cricket table, English, 19th Century. 16 inches wide by 22 ¼ inches tall; lower shelf clearance 12 ¼ inches; floor to bottom of shelf 8 ¼ inches
Wood
Victorian English Pine Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A superb mid 19th-century cricket table of excellent form. Circular pine plank top over a triangular tier base on three square tapering legs. Lovely colour to top and base in a won...
Pine
Highly Figured Welsh Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
A Welsh cricket table having round plank top over three legs with lovely mellow and highly figured pale elm three plank top over ash base. Great size next to a sofa for a table lamp....
Ash, Elm
19th Century English Pine Cricket Table
Located in Houston, TX
A charming 19th-century English Pine Cricket Table featuring a lower shelf. Its rustic appeal and sturdy construction evoke the simplicity and practicality of bygone eras, making it ...
Pine
19th Century English Oak Cricket Table
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming 19th century English oak cricket table with three legs, a round top, and a bead-board shelf on the bottom. Cricket tables were designed with three legs to be more accommod...
Oak
English Pine Cricket Table, circa 1900s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English pine cricket table. Round shaped top sits on a tripod base with a triangular shaped bottom shelf. Great worn and distressed finish.
Pine
Diminutive Sycamore Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Charming and diminutive Welsh cricket table, the lathe turned top fashioned from a single plank of sycamore over three splayed spoke shaved legs, the whole with good rich color.
Oak, Sycamore
19th Century English Octagonal Cricket Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Step back in time with this early 19th-century English cricket table, a true gem of craftsmanship and history. Its striking octagonal top, fashioned from a single solid plank of elm,...
Elm, Oak
18th Century Cricket Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
English elm wood cricket table. Great rustic look and feel, with original warm aged patina.
Elm
Welsh 19th Century Pine Cricket Table
Located in Faversham, GB
A superb mid 19th-century cricket table of excellent form. Circular pine plank top over a triangular tier base on three square tapering legs. The table has a wonderfully rich dark ...
Pine
Stretcher Base Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
An 18th century cricket table in oak with a round top over three legs joined by stretchers, retaining wonderful original dark surface and have a refined yet rustic feel.
Oak
English Cricket Table from the Georgian Era
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome English cricket table of patinated wood from the Georgian Era, featuring the traditional round or circular top over a tripod base with pegged joins and triangular under-ti...
Wood
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