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Card Tables and Tea Tables For Sale
A Very Rare Early 19th Century Irish Turn Over Leaf Games Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A very rare early 19th Century Irish well figured mahogany turn over leaf gateleg action card Table. This exceptional piece is finely hand carved with beautifully rich patination an...
Category
19th Century Irish Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
James de Wulf Concrete Triangular Locking Table, 45"
Located in Paia, HI
This is where we gather for tea. The triangular locking table features two pieces of concrete: triangular tabletop and base, which lock together by gravity alone. Equal in art and ut...
Category
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Concrete
$7,552 / item
H Batley, Attributed Collinson & Lock, an Anglo-Japanese Fold Over Card Table
Located in London, GB
H W Batley, attributed Collinson & Lock. A fine quality Anglo-Japanese rosewood fold over card table opening to reveal the original gold baize with embossed...
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1870s English Anglo-Japanese Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
English Queen Anne Cuban Mahogany Acanthus Foliage Games Table w/ Pad Feet, 1750
Located in Charleston, SC
English Queen Anne Cuban mahogany one board hinged games table with flanking carved outset corners, supporting rear gate leg, flanking carved acanthus foliage knees, and resting on t...
Category
1750s English Queen Anne Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Bauhaus Rectangular Tubular Steel Table, Chromed Metal, Lacquered Wood, C. 1935
Located in Berlin, DE
Bauhaus rectangular table model Tn 132, manufactured by Mücke-Melder, circa. 1935. Chrome plated tubular steel, black lacquered wood.
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1930s Czech Bauhaus Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Metal, Chrome
American Classical Style Solid Pine and Brass Pedestal Center Table
Located in Germantown, MD
American Classical style solid pine and brass pedestal quad feet center table. Top will come off for easy handling or storage.
Measuring 36 i...
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Late 20th Century American American Classical Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
1920-1950 Play Table Mahjong China and Its Four Stools Palissandre
Located in Paris, FR
Table has at the middle height with its four stools which can skip below and serve also as side tables,
Rosewood, size of stools: 39 x 34 H 46 cm, good condition, circa 1920-1950.
Category
1920s Chinese Chinese Chippendale Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Baker Furniture French Regency Louis XVI Cherry and Burl Wood Tea Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Regency Louis XVI style tea table or occasional side table
By Baker Furniture
USA, Circa 1960s
Carved cherry wood, with burl wood banding and original bras...
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Mid-20th Century American Louis XVI Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
A Very Fine C19th Ormolu Mounted Envelope Card Table
Located in London, GB
A Very Fine Kingwood ormolu Mounted Envelope Table
This Table Dates C1870s
Had A very Gentle Repolish
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Kingwood
$7,990 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Edwardian Quality Mahogany Hand Painted Card/Side Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Edwardian quality mahogany hand painted card/side table having a quality shaped mahogany and a stunning hand painted swizzle top opening to reveal the original green baize...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Other
Vintage Pie Crust Tilt Top Table
Located in Acton, MA
Vintage Mahogany Pie Crust Tilt Top Tea Table. This beautiful old table has a solid figured/crotch mahogany top, nicely carved acanthus leafs on the urn portion of the shaft as wel...
Category
1930s American Chippendale Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
21st Century "Circensi" Inlaid Tea Table by Gum Design & Hebanon, Made in Italy
Located in Nocera Superiore, Campania
"We are constantly living in a dynamic balance... like circus people on a tightrope".
This reflection led to the Circensi collection, three inlaid tea tables in striped Ash and Rio...
Category
2010s Italian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Ash, Rosewood
$4,762 Sale Price
20% Off
Majorelle, Clematis Tea Table, Art Nouveau, Late 19th-early 20th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Tea table with 2 trays, in marquetry of different wood species: the trays are decorated with flowers (clematis) and leaves, the upper tray is signed L Majorelle.
It is also decorate...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Baker Furniture French Louis XV Walnut Tea Table or Occasional Side Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful French Louis XV style tea table or occasional side table
By Baker Furniture
USA, Circa 1960s
Gorgeous figured walnut, with original brass hardware.
Measures: ...
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Mid-20th Century American Louis XV Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
English Chippendale Mahogany Tea Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Chippendale-style (18/19th Century) mahogany pedestal base tilt top tea table with square filigree gallery top.
Category
Early 19th Century British Chippendale Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Mid-Century Brass and Smoked Glass Bar Cart
By Morex
Located in Redding, CT
Mid-Century brass and smoked glass bar table/cart on wheels. Sleek and sexy Italian styling most likely attributed to Morex. This size cart is bigger than most bar carts and very stu...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
$1,800 Sale Price
35% Off
Early 20th Century Carved French Games Table with Leather Top
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th century carved French games table with leather top, circa 1920
Beautiful games table with a leather top, four corner folding cup holders and a single drawer on each sid...
Category
Early 20th Century French Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
21st Century Ludovica+Roberto Palomba Uma Round 50 Table
Located in Brembate di Sopra (BG), IT
UMA Round 50 is the smallest low table from the collection of the same name designed by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba for P + C Edizioni in spring 2022.
Featu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Fabric, Resin
19th Century Rosewood Pair of Card Tables
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A good quality and very attractive pair of mid 19th
Century french rosewood card tables of serpentine
Form having well figured fold over tops with moulded
Edge enclosing baized interiors raised on elegant moulded
Cabriole legs to front and back with carved decoration
Raised on scrolling feet with original wooden castors
(This elegant pair of card tables...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Antique Georgian Mahogany Demilune Tea Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A good quality late 18th century mahogany demilune shaped tea table of
Excellent color and patina with inlaid and banded decoration raised on
Elegant square tapered legs.
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Børge Mogensen Folding Table
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Børge Mogensen coffee table or folding table.
Made in beech.
Model 4500, made by Fritz Hansen.
Designed for Børge Mogensens Tremmesofa.
Measures: Width 60/120.
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Beech
$943 Sale Price
20% Off
English 19th Century tea table, ca 1880
Located in Delft, NL
English 19th Century tea table, ca 1880
An English mahogany tea table, raised on two legs on a base with a drawer. The legs at the side of the...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Antique Fold Over Card Table, English Walnut, Games, Georgian Revival, Edwardian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique fold-over card table. An English, burr walnut games table in Georgian revival taste, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910.
Graceful side table, folding ou...
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Early 20th Century British Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Baker Furniture Regency Burled Walnut Tea Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Regency or Queen Anne style single drawer nightstand, tea table, or occasional side table
By Baker Furniture
USA, Circa 1980s
Book-matched walnut top, carved soli...
Category
Late 20th Century American Regency Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Superb Quality Antique Regency Mahogany Card/Side Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Superb quality antique regency mahogany card/side table having a superb quality mahogany swizzle crossbanded top opening to reveal the original green baize, interior figured mahogany...
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Other
Regency 19th Century Kingwood Card Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Rare Early 19th Century Regency Period Kingwood Rectangular Card Games Table, Having Superbly Figured Foldover, Swivel, Top With Attractive Yew Wood Crossbanded Decoration, Enclosi...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Kingwood
Baker Furniture Queen Anne Walnut and Burl Wood Tea Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Queen Anne style occasional side table or nightstand
By Baker Furniture
USA, Late 20th Century
Walnut, with burl wood drawer front and original brass hardware.
...
Category
Late 20th Century American Queen Anne Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Bevan. Marsh Jones & Cribb. An Aesthetic Movement walnut ebonized card table
Located in London, GB
Charles Bevan, made by Marsh Jones and Cribb. An Aesthetic Movement Walnut ebonized card table with fold over top retaining the original red baize on turned legs united by a double w...
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1860s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th French Louis XV Kingwood and Gilt Bronze Side Table attributed to F Linke
Located in Dallas, TX
Late 19th century to turn of the 20th century French Louis XVI tray table. Kingwood and fine gilt bronze detail. Attributed to F. Linke .
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Bronze
T. Simpson & Son English Victorian Relief Carved Mahogany Tilt-top Table
Located in Forney, TX
An antique English Victorian finely hand carved mahogany gateleg side table by Thomas Simpson and Son.
Born in England in the late 19th century, ha...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of George III Mahogany Games Tables
Located in Essex, MA
One of a later date. Each with a rectangular hinged top opening to a playing surface over a drawer raised on square tapered legs. Brass bail handles on the drawers.
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Italian modern coffee table brass glass by Luciano Frigerio for Frigerio, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern coffee table brass glass by Luciano Frigerio for Frigerio, 1980s
Coffee table with round glass top. In the center of the top there is a brass circle, just below the to...
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1980s Italian Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Victorian Mahogany & Inlaid Card Games Table 19th Century
Located in London, GB
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...
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1860s English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
19th Century Napoleon III Mahogany Console / Game Table
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 19th Century mahogany wood beautifully proportioned console or game table with a flip top leather details when open resting on a slightly curved cabriole legs. The table is in ...
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1820s French Napoleon III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Baker Furniture Chippendale Carved Mahogany Pembroke Tea Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful Chippendale or Georgian style carved mahogany pembroke drop-leaf occasional side table or tea table
By Baker Furniture, "Historic Charleston" Collection
USA, circa ...
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1980s American Chippendale Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th century Chippendale Mahogany Tilt-Top Table
Located in Savannah, GA
Mahogany tilt-top English tea table featuring an unusual octagon shaped tray with turned baluster gallery supported on a tripod base with slightly flared legs. Carved with leaf decor...
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1780s English Chippendale Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$3,495 Sale Price
22% Off
Irish Chippendale Mahogany Dish Top Tea Table. Circa 1760
Located in Charleston, SC
Irish Chippendale mahogany dish top tea table with carved foliage knee and terminating on stylized slipper feet. Mid-18th Century
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18th Century and Earlier Irish Chippendale Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Italian mid-century modern coffee table with marble top, 1950s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern coffee table with marble top, 1950s
Coffee table with rectangular marble top with rounded corners. The structure is made of metal. The structure is in blac...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Marble, Metal
French Serving Bar Cart with Bottle Holder in Enameled Iron, Mategot, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Lovely serving bar cart in perforated enameled iron with a removable top bottle holder. This gorgeous piece was realized in France in the 1970s, clearly in the style of Mathieu Matég...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Metal, Iron
American Federal Center Pedestal Games Table, circa 1815
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
An exceptionally handsome and very well crafted classical Philadelphia Federal games table in premium mahogany with turned and finely carved pedes...
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Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Napoleon III Painted Round Tilt-Top Table, Late 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The tilt-top painted with faux marble design in the center surrounded by a vine and leaf pattern.
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Paint
Dining Table, 8 Seat, Custom, Walnut, Modern, Rift Hardwood, Semigood Design
Located in Issaquah, WA
The lead time provided is an estimate and may extend up to 12 months. If you require delivery by a specific date, we kindly recommend inquiring prior to purchase to ensure availability.
A versatile hardwood table that can be used as a card table, breakfast or apartment sized dining...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Hardwood
Midcentury Coffee Table Egyptian Motifs Tiles on Rosewood Support, Steel & Glass
Located in Miami, FL
Midcentury coffee table in glass, steel and tiles with Egyptian motifs.
Refined pieces mixing cleverly a modern and contemporary design for the structure and archaïque references wi...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Metal
1930s Regency Style Mahogany Tiered Tea Table with Ball Claw Feet
Located in Germantown, MD
A 1930s Regency Style Mahogany Tiered Tea Table with Ball Claw Feet and a combination of bobbing, rope twisted and reedled legs. Measures 27" in width,...
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Early 20th Century American Regency Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
1800s Georgian Solid Mahogany Accent Table
Located in Germantown, MD
Antique solid mahogany occasional table with waved legs and unique top shape.
We noticed that a leg has been repaired at some point, but apparently not noticeable to our opinion.
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Mid-19th Century American British Colonial Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Victorian Aesthetic Movement Bamboo Tiered Dessert Server Tea Table
Located in Forney, TX
A rare, charming, and most unusual three tier bamboo dessert server or tea table.
Dating to the late 19th to early 20th century, likely English, execu...
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Early 20th Century European Aesthetic Movement Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Bamboo, Lacquer, Wood, Bentwood
Tria Coffee Table 80x80
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Tria Coffee Table 80x80
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Marble
$12,629
Baker Furniture Modern Art Deco Four-Tier Maple Tea Table or Side Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Modern Art Deco style four-tier maple tea table or occasional side table on casters
By Baker Furniture
USA, Late 20th Century
Measures: 24"W x 18"D x 32"H.
Ver...
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Late 20th Century American Art Deco Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Maple
The Cartografico Card Table by David Duncan Studio
By David Duncan
Located in New York, NY
A round card table with a brass frame and printed top featuring a custom map of the US Virgin Islands, inspired by archival images. Featuring a brass compass suspended in the center,...
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2010s American Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Georgian Octagonal Mahogany Stand
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine 18th century mahogany octagonal tripod stand, the single board top with vivid grain and good color on turned and ebonized shaft with balustrade and ring turnings, standing on we...
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18th Century Irish George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French Arts & Craft Carved, Gilt and Inlaid Louis Seize Style Walnut Table
Located in Lisse, NL
Elegant design and top quality carved multi purpose antique table.
The top of this beautifully designed and very well executed table is inlaid with a diamond in the center which grows into a larger, but more organic diamond as it moves outward. The edges of this table with the differences in height also make this table extra impressive. What probably is most striking are the incredibly detailed carvings on all four sides and on all four legs. The sharp details and the depth of the flowers and branches are of a level of craftsmanship seldom seen.
Apart from some minor dents and scratches and some fading of the gilding this table is in excellent condition and it is structurally as sound as can be. It even comes with the Original, antique coasters...
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Early 20th Century European Louis XVI Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Nutwood
Tavolino da caffe rotondo vintage french in marmo e ottone
Located in Cantù, IT
Tavolino da caffe rotondo vintage french in marmo e ottone Private Collection Mice di Domenico Rugiano
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1970s French Other Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
Antique Continental Paint Decorated Octagonal Tilt Top Tavern Table, Dated, 1706
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fascinating and early Painted Table with great form and good color. The octagonal top made in four planks. The fully carved base and supports with foliate scrolls. The tripod base ...
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18th Century European Jacobean Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Mahogany and Marble Center Table or Zoom Table by Ron Puckett, 1991, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful and finely made center table (or tea table) by Ron Puckett (Ronald C. Puckett), crafted of Mahogany, Maple and Marble in the Art Deco style, signed and dated Ronald C. Pucket 2/91. Beautiful green marble with exotic white contrasting grain. Perfect size for an easy to relocate table - consider using as a laptop computer table for zoom meetings making it easy to move from inside to outside on nice sunny days.
This tea, center or card table, Zoom table...
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1990s American Art Deco Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Marble
$2,700 Sale Price
30% Off
English Chippendale Mahogany Spider Leg Tea Table with Scalloped Skirts, C. 1750
Located in Charleston, SC
English Chippendale mahogany delicate tea table with flanking scalloped skirts and resting on turned ringed spider legs with the original connecting stre...
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1750s English Chippendale Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Burr Walnut Card Table
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
A late 19th century card table. Burr walnut veneered with a single mahogany lined drawer and red felt lined card table. Pad foot cabriole leg.
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Late 19th Century English Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Octagon Shaped Metal Side Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Industrial rustic French iron tables with beautiful patina on the metal. Table exhibits rustic charm and beauty. Can be used indoors as side tables or outdoors as garden table. Table...
Category
20th Century French Industrial Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Iron
Brazilian Modernist Tea Table Card in Solid Hardwood
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
This tea table cart, a product of mid-20th-century design, encapsulates the essence of the era with its functional form and use of both traditional and modern materials. The designer...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Formica, Hardwood
Vintage Baker Furniture Federal Style Inlaid Tea Side Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Baker Furniture Federal Style
Inlaid Tea Side Table
Circa End 20th Century
Dimensions
H 30"
W 38"
D 24"
Category
20th Century Unknown Federal Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Chippendale Flame Mahogany Ball & Claw Tea Table with Pierced Gallery
By Councill
Located in Germantown, MD
Chippendale Flame Mahogany tea table with Pierced Gallery, carved cabriole legs terminating with ball and claw feet. Attributed to Councill Cr...
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Late 20th Century American Chippendale Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Hardwood, Mahogany
Antique and Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Today, the phrase “card tables” might evoke the image of common plastic tables covered in felt, but historically these tables were statement pieces that invited merriment and were made of mahogany, walnut or other fine woods. Today, antique and vintage card tables and tea tables can enliven a space and encourage spirited competition in your home.
Card tables originated in England in the late 17th century, and during this time, as well as the 18th century, game tables in general became quite popular. We refer to early versions of card tables as antique Regency card tables because the Prince of Wales ruled England during the period and his official title was Regent. Back then, these furnishings were typically small, rectangular tables outfitted with hinged tops so that they could be opened to reveal a playing surface. Ornamental flourishes of the era might have included an integration of fine velvet or needlepoint as lining for the table’s surface. For furniture makers, wide adoption of a dense woven green material called baize for table covering — similar to felt but stronger — occurred during the early 1700s.
Tea became widely affordable during the early 1800s in England, and tea time exploded in popularity and involved large tea sets — especially during the Victorian era — as well as small, well-crafted tea tables. Your beverage was paired with petite baked goods, and the tea table would be home to teacups, saucers, a milk pot and other items. While tea tables are similar in design to card tables, the focus is more on presentation. Georgian card tables and tea tables — furniture made during the reign of England’s three Georges — were especially ornate. Some featured intricately carved design elements on each side and stood on elegantly curved legs. After all, tea time became a sacred ritual that society women dressed up for. It was a time to pause, reflect and sip a comforting beverage.
When no guests were visiting to enjoy tea or play games, owners could fold down both card tables and tea tables to their smaller size and tuck them away into a corner of the room.
Antique and vintage card tables and tea tables can make a lovely addition to any living room, entertainment room or game room. Find yours on 1stDibs.
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