Butchoff Antiques Game Tables

Ebonized Eastlake games table.

This is a game table made in England, circa 1870. The table is made of walnut and burr walnut. The top has a fabulous quality cut of the finest burr walnut. The 4 sides of the top ar...

19th C French Louis XV style card or game table, ca 1860. A green lacquered table with gold paint of the Rocaille motifs. The table is raised o...

This unique game table dates back to the early phase of the Biedermeier period. It comes from Southern Germany. The game table has a beautiful walnut root veneer on top and apron. ...

Mahogany George IV half round games table Opens into a circle to allow you to play the game of choice Elegant oval inlays at the top of the legs Sheraton style Legs Also ideal for us...

A wonderful card or games table by the French firm Moissonnier. Fully stamped with manufacturer mark, see images. The top is reversible, with a red leather top and also a black pai...

Stunning 18th century card table, South Germany, 1760. Cherry, elm and walnut veneer and marquetry. The outside of the top decorated with a chessboard. The opened table top is covere...

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...

A fine Regency mahogany occasional table attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, with tray top above frieze drawers and beaded border, on turned tapering legs with castors. Circa 1828 ...

19th century Marquetry card table, the rectangular top centered with an inlaid cartouche and musical instruments, within swept foliate inlay, the top opening to a baize lined playing...

A rare and elegant marquetry Russian game table. With central floral marquetry motif and gilt bronze-mounted. Opening to reveal inset green based playing surface with marquetry inl...

An unusual George IV specimen marble backgammon table attributed to Gillows. This rectangular table is strongly attributed to Gillows. It has a rectangular top inlaid with a central chess board flanked by two backgammon fields, all inlaid with a multitude of specimen marbles. One edge carved and gilded with the Latin motto ‘Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare’. The oak base has a drawer for cards and playing pieces, all raised on a square section support with four splayed legs and the original brass castors. English, circa 1830. Provenance: Geoffrey Bennison Ltd, London, November 1983 The Mermaid House Collection, St. John’s Wood, London Property of a gentleman Private American collection The form of the base of this table is related to several known Gillows commissions from the late Regency period and the quality of the cabinet work also suggests that firm attribution to the firm. Backgammon tables, rather than more general games tables, are unusual at this date and the use of inlaid specimen marbles in the top suggests a client of wealth. Additionally, the Latin text on the edge of the table provides further clues. The text, Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare, translates as “it is shameful to live in your homeland and not know it”. This phrase dates back to antiquity but rose to prominence once again in the mid-18th century when used by the botanist and key Enlightenment figure Carl Linnaeus in his work on the native flora of Sweden. The combination of this phrase and the use of native English timbers and marbles is promoting English raw materials and craftsmanship at a time when the noble and the wealthy were focussed on European pietra dura tables. Mermaid House in St John’s Wood was re-designed by Chester Jones...