19th Century Georgian Mahogany Inlaid Demi Lune Card Table

A fine pair of late 18th century Irish George III card tables, constructed in mahogany with crossbanded in satinwood, shaped in demilune outline with moulded frieze and fluted and ri...

A exquisite 19th Century American Federal Hepplewhite Mahogany Demi-Lune Flip-Top Console table or Card Table in very good antique conditi...

An 18th century Georgian period Demi Lune mahogany game / tea table with two small drawers. The top folds over and opens to a round table top supported on a swing out leg. England, 1...

A superb example of an Early Irish Mahogany Georgian Demi-lune Fold-over Games Table of outstanding museum quality. Made in Ireland during the last quart...

19th century sheraton revival inlaid mahogany card table, circa 1880. Shaped carved victorian carved card table in the sheraton revival style. Inlaid with a fan and florals in satin...

A charming late 18th century elm tea table having superbly figured fold over top retaining excellent warm colour and patina raised on square tapering legs.  This beautiful little ...

This is a fabulous antique Victorian mahogany, satinwood and marquetry games table in the manner of Edwards & Roberts, circa 1860 in date. It is made of beautiful flame mahogany and satinwood with elegant satinwood inlaid and penwork floral and foliate decoration of ribbons, bellfowers and garlands.. The shaped hinged top opens to reveal a fabulous green baize lined gaming interior for playing cards, above a frieze fitted with a drawer and decorated by a beautiful classical urn. The table is raised on elegant square tapering legs terminating in spade feet. It is an elegant piece which will enhance a special room in your home. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THAT THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY RESTRICTED MATERIALS. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and polished in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 74 x Width 89 x Depth 48 Dimensions in inches: Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 2 foot, 11 inches x Depth 1 foot, 7 inches Marquetry is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers. The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique. Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs. Edwards & Roberts The firm Edwards & Roberts was one of the best English antique furniture cabinet makers of the second half of the eighteenth century. The company was founded in 1845 and by 1854 was trading as ‘Edwards & Roberts’, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet...

A fine quality late 19th Century French Louis XVI style parquetry inlaid envelope card table. Having wonderful gilded ormolu mouldings, monopodia and claw foot mounts. The quartered ...

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MAHOGANY DEMI-LUNE CARD TABLE, CIRCA 1790. Inlaid with fustic, kingwood and amaranth. The folding top lined with green baize.

Antique Victorian quality mahogany Demi lune shaped card table having a quality mahogany Demi lune shaped top opening to reveal the original green baize interior, mahogany frieze sta...