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Card Tables and Tea Tables For Sale
Style: Georgian
Style: Hepplewhite
18th Century Irish Georgian Mahogany Games Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century Irish Georgian mahogany games table featuring lift-off rectangular top. The reversible rectangular dished top with baise playing surface and sunk counter wells sits abov...
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18th Century Irish Georgian 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.
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Early 1800s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Irish Mahogany Tea Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good 18th century Cuban mahogany tilt-top tea table, the single plank top with rich graining, over cannon barrel turned shaft, over acanth...
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1760s Irish Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$6,800
18th Century Mahogany Concertina Action Card Table, Irish Circa 1750
Located in Central England, GB
18th Century Mahogany Concertina Action card table, Circa 1750
A very good Irish concertina action card table standing on bold carved l...
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18th Century Irish George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Pair Irish Mahogany Card Tables
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century pair Irish mahogany fold-over card tables with green baize interiors. The pair with central carved scallop shell detail are flanked on...
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18th Century Irish Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$39,017 / set
18th Century Antique Mahogany Drop Leaf Table
Located in Devon, GB
Mid 18th century solid mahogany drop leaf table with four tapering legs and pad feet.
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Wood
19th Century George III Inlaid & Hand Painted Satinwood Card Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century George III inlaid and hand painted satinwood card table with bell-drop flower decorations to the tapering front legs, folate and garlands to the apron, and a classical c...
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Early 19th Century Irish George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Satinwood
Sheraton Period Mahogany Breakfront Card Table
Located in London, GB
A fine quality late 18th century Sheraton period breakfront mahogany card table, having flame figured satinwood & tulipwood crossbanded top, above fiddleback mahogany frieze supporte...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique English 18th Century George II Mahogany Two Tier Card Table
Located in Devon, GB
A fine and most elegant George II period two tier mahogany card table. The rounded rectangular top opens to reveal a baize, lined interior with guinea wells and places for candlestic...
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique fine quality Georgian revival burr walnut folding card or tea table
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique Fine Quality Georgian Revival Burr Walnut Folding Card or Tea Table, dating from around 1920 with a beautiful colour and patina.
This rare and high-quality table is in very ...
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1920s Georgian Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
$1,945 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Irish George II Style Games Table
Located in Dublin, IE
An exceptional 19th century Irish George II style mahogany games and tea table of eared rectangular form, the first hinged top on solid mahogany, the second hinged top enclosing a ba...
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19th Century Irish George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
George III Mahogany Bookmatched Pedestal Quadfeet Tea Table
Located in Germantown, MD
George III Mahogany Bookmatched Pedestal Quad snake feet Tea Table. Measures 24" in with, 24" in depth and 25.5"
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Mid-20th Century American George III Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Irish George II Mahogany Card Table
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
George II Irish Mahogany card table with carved scalloped shell on frieze, raised on shell carved cabriole legs on pad feet. The table opens to reveal a green baize lined playing sur...
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1740s European George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Georgian Irish Mahogany Demi Lune Games Card or Tea Table George III
Located in Dublin, Ireland
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...
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Late 18th Century Irish George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Ebony, Mahogany, Walnut
Period 1820s Irish Card / Tea Tables Solid Mahogany with Later Carvings
Located in Manhasset, NY
Period pair of Irish card or tea tables solid mahogany with later carvings. These wonderfully carved card tables have cabriole legs and ball and claw feet. Each having a center drawe...
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Early 19th Century Northern Irish Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Majolica, Mahogany
Restored Antique Kidney Shaped Occasional Table with Drawers Brown Leather Top
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely unique fully restored occasional writing table with twin drawers and brown leather top
A good looking well made and desirable writing o...
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1860s Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
$2,061 Sale Price
20% Off
George II Mahogany Harlequin Table
Located in Dallas, TX
A George II mahogany pier/tea/games bureau-table. The mahogany top is supported on a hinged back leg when opened. The top when opened conceals the game table and a harlequin pop-up c...
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique George III Quality Mahogany Fold over Tea/Side Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality mahogany fold over tea/side table having a quality mahogany fold over top opening to reveal a polished interior, mahogany shaped frieze, standing on four e...
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Early 1800s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pr Tilt Top Tables from the Sir Humphrey Wakefield Collection for Baker C 1980's
Located in New York, NY
Spectacular pair of tilt top tea tables both marked Baker Sir Humphrey Wakefield Collection. These tables are in very good, clean ready to use condition, from the top end series for ...
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1980s American Georgian Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century George III Carved Mahogany Serpentine Concertina Action Card Table
By William Vile
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A bold and impressive George III carved mahogany serpentine concertina action card table, circa 1760.
In the manner of William Vile & John Cobb, St Ma...
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18th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
Museum Grade George I Cocus Wood Card Table, Circa 1725. England
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Museum Grade George I Cocus Wood Card Table (Partridge). -
English Circa 1725. The folding top with outset rounded corners and banded in quarter veneered parquetry top above a shape...
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18th Century English George I Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Ebony
Mid-18th Century George III Mahogany Folding Card Table
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A George III mahogany folding card table, circa 1760, the moulded top opening to a baize lined interior, the blind fretwork decorated friez...
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Mid-18th Century British George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Baize, Mahogany
$4,402 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Mahogany Fold-Over Tea Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century mahogany fold-over tea table with shaped top. Unusual for this type of piece, it sits on four matching cabriole legs with scallop and scroll decoration to the knees and ...
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18th Century Irish Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Early 19th Century George III Mahogany Card Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th century George III mahogany fold-over card table, the shaped and moulded top raised over frieze with carved gadroon motif supported on cabriole leg with foliate motif on k...
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Early 19th Century Irish George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Irish Mahogany Folding Games Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century Irish mahogany games table with breakfront foldover top, cabriole legs terminating in trefoil feet & felt-lined surface on the interior. To the rear is gateleg that pull...
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18th Century Irish Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Georgian George II Inlaid Mahogany Folding Card or Tea Table - C1750
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique Georgian II Inlaid Mahogany Folding Card or Tea Table C1750 (Possibly Irish)
This exquisite Georgian II inlaid mahogany folding card or tea table, dating from around 1750, is...
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1750s George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
$3,408 Sale Price
30% Off
George III Inlaid Satinwood Card Table
By Mayhew & Ince
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine George III inlaid satinwood card table attributed to Mayhew and Ince, the top profusely inlaid with central shell, urns, swags, honeysuckle a...
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1780s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Kingwood, Satinwood, Tulipwood
Pair of Small 18th Century George II Mahogany Card Tables
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Irish George II Mahogany Card Tables
Of unusually small size, the eighteenth-century folding card tables of rich and dark timber, on elegantly drawn shell-carved cabriole legs terminating in lion's paw feet; the shaped apron with a central carved shell; a gate-leg action allowing the tops to fold open, revealing a lined playing surface with rounded corners to support candle trays...
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18th Century Irish George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Original Rare Gillows Lancaster circa 1789-95 Hardwood Fold Over Game Card Table
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare circa 1789-1795 Gillows Lancaster mahogany games card fold over table
A very rare and well made pi...
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1780s English Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Hardwood
$5,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Very Fine Pair of George III Mahogany Concertina Action Card Tables
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A very fine pair of George III mahogany and plum pudding mahogany concertina action card tables, each with square cut corners and recessed...
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1780s British George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
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
Matching Pair of Benjamin Ferber Mahogany Card Tables
Located in Bradenton, FL
A very nice matching pair of Mahogany inlay Hepplewhite style card tables signed by Benjamin Ferber. Very good original condition with minor surface imperfections mainly on the insid...
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Mid-20th Century American Hepplewhite Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Style Mahogany Carved Galleried Tilt Top Tea Table
Located in Germantown, MD
A Georgian Style Mahogany Carved hardwood Galleried Tilt Top Tea Table I'm great vintage condition. Measures 29.5" in width, 29.5" in depth and 29.5" in height flat and 44" in height...
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Mid-19th Century Unknown Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$1,116 Sale Price
30% Off
Superb Quality Antique George III Irish Carved Mahogany Card/Side Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Superb quality antique George III Irish carved mahogany card/side table having a superb quality mahogany serpentine shape fold over top opening to reveal the original baize interior,...
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Early 19th Century Irish George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Other
Antique Original Hepplewhite Outstanding Quality Carved Mahogany Card Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III original Hepplewhite outstanding quality carved mahogany card table having a lovely figured mahogany serpentine shaped hinged top opening to reveal a green baize i...
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18th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Other
George I Demilune Red Walnut Games Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George I demilune red walnut card table, the folding solid top over two triangular drawers bearing original batwing hardware and standing on shaped cabriole legs and standing on...
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Early 18th Century Irish George I Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
A Very Rare Georgian Hand Painted Inlaid Turn Over Leaf Card Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A very rare Georgian rosewood and satinwood turn over leaf gateleg action card table. This exceptional piece is finely hand carved with beautifully rich patination, fine grain, inla...
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Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique English Hepplewhite Flame Mahogany Inlaid & Banded Game Table 19th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
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Antique English Hepplewhite Flame Mahogany Inlaid & Banded Game Table with Flip-Top 19th C
Measures...
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19th Century Hepplewhite Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century English Georgian Mahogany Demi Lune Game / Tea Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
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...
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18th Century English Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
George III Style Mahogany Galleried and Glass Top Inset Tea Table / Silver Table
Located in Germantown, MD
A George III Style Mahogany Galleried and Glass Top Tea Table or Silver Table in great vintage condition. Measures 20" in width, 28" in depth and 2...
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Mid-20th Century American George III Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
$1,396 Sale Price
30% Off
George II Period Flip-Top Tea Table with Fretwork, England ca. 1760
Located in Atlanta, GA
18th century English George II period flip-top tea table with fretwork.
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
English Mahogany Demilune Ebony Inlaid Hinged Card Table, Circa 1790
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany demilune hinged card table with interior baize, ebonized string and diamond shaped inlay, supporting double gate legs, and terminati...
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1790s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
English Mahogany One Board Tilt-Top Pedestal Tea Table, Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany one board tilt top tea table with the original banjo locking mechanism, turned ringed spiral pedestal, and terminating on tripod legs with slipper pad feet, Late 18t...
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1770s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
20th Century Tripod Pedestal Mahogany Tea Table Side Table on Wheels
Located in Germantown, MD
A beautiful 20th Century Tripod Pedestal mahogany tea table side table on Wheels with beaded top edge. Very good condition.
Measures 24 inches in diameter and stand 26.5 inches tall.
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Late 20th Century American George III Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Fine Georgian revival walnut & carved Irish card table, circa 1900
Located in Dereham, GB
Fine Georgian Revival Walnut & carved Irish card table,
Burr walnut top with cross-banding,
good carved moulding decoration around top edge,
good carved shell & leaf decoration on f...
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Early 20th Century Irish George II Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Georgian Elm Demi Lune Tea Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
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 ...
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Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Elm
Pair Antique 19th Century Dutch Walnut Marquetry Card Game Console Tables 1820
Located in Portland, OR
An exceptional & rare pair of antique early 19th century Dutch marquetry walnut card or game tables, circa 1820.
Each table is of reverse serpentine...
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Early 19th Century Dutch George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Fruitwood, Satinwood, Walnut
1940s Georgian Mahogany Glass Tray Top Pedestal Table
Located in Germantown, MD
Georgian style vintage mahogany tray top pedestal table. Loose tray top.
Clean vintage condition of the 1940s. Measures 26.5W x 19.25D x 19H. Fo...
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Mid-20th Century American Georgian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
$612 Sale Price
47% Off
Rare 18th Century Walnut Tea & Silver Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An extremely rare mid 18th century George II period walnut
tea table having well figured foldover top enclosing
divisions to well raised on elegant turned legs with
carved lappet ...
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
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
A Small Proportioned George II Period Mahogany Tea Table
Located in London, GB
An unusually small, mahogany tea table of extraordinary colour and patina.
The hinged top leaf opens up to a rich mahogany surface, with a lockable second leaf revealing a mahogany ...
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Mid-18th Century British George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
English George III Hand Carved Walnut Tripod Tilt-Top Supper/Tea Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
a wonderful period English George III hand-carved tilt-top supper/tea table with shell and leaf carved top with circular reserves, over a turned baluster support issuing three downswept legs terminating in ball and claw pad feet; the English supper table...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
George III Chippendale Mahogany Card Table
Located in London, by appointment only
A fine mid-18th-century rich mahogany George III card table raised on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet, scallop shells carved in high relief on all four legs with swags, support...
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Mid-18th Century European George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Georgian Mahogany Tea Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
A George II 18th century Mahogany tea table featuring dish top, single drawer in frieze with cock beading boarding the drawer and with brass...
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18th Century English Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
English Mahogany Satinwood and Ebony Inlaid Hinged Game Table, Circa 1800
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany hinged game table with book matched cross banded satinwood inlays, ebony sting inlays, turned ringed pedestal columns, and resting on the original saber legs with fo...
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Early 1800s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
$10,800 Sale Price
40% Off
Hand Painted Tea Table with Faux Grain Marble Top
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is a hand painted tea table that can be used in a variety of places in ones home. Beautifully painted with a faux grain marble top.
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20th Century Unknown Georgian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of George III Marquetry Inlaid Card Tables
By John Cobb
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A fine pair of 18th century George III Hepplewhite period floral marquetry inlaid demi-lune card tables attributed to John Cobb.
The semi-elliptical sabico and floral marquetry top is bordered and framed with a half moon of satin birch and box wood banding and crossbanded with an outer banding of tulipwood. The bouquet of flowers is most striking and displays some of the finest floral marquetry; the quality is exceptional and the detail and use of various exotic woods is exemplary.
The sabico frieze is shallow and crossbanded with tulipwood and flanked with inlaid satinwood flutes raised on crossbanded and tapered legs that stand on elegant block feet.
In excellent original condition and has achieved a warm and lightly sun kissed colour and patina to the premium grade figured mahogany.
Circa 1775 - 1785
John Cobb (c.1710–1778) was an English cabinetmaker and upholsterer. His work was once overshadowed by that of Thomas Chippendale but he is now regarded as being among England’s greatest furniture makers.
He is thought to come from Ashby, Norfolk and was the son of John Cobb and Mary Holmes.
It is believed that John Cobb was apprenticed in 1729 to Timothy Money (fl 1724–59), a Norwich upholsterer.
In 1755 he married Sukey, a daughter of the cabinetmaker Giles Grendey and is said to have acquired a ‘singularly haughty character’, strutting ‘in full dress of the most superb and costly kind...through his workshops giving orders to his men’, and on one occasion earning a rebuke from George III.
He worked with William Vile from 1750 until 1765 in premises at 72, the corner house of St Martin’s Lane and Long Acre. In the early 1750s, William Hallett, another cabinetmaker of the time, formed a working syndicate with Vile and Cobb. Vile and Cobb supplied furniture to the leading patrons of the day including George III and Queen Charlotte, the 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, the 4th Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth and the 4th Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.
Vile and Cobb held the Royal Warrant from 1761 until April 1764 when Vile retired. While Vile created works in an Anglicised Rococo style, Cobb’s furniture of the 1770s was executed in an elegant Neoclassical style. Cobb was well known for his haughty disposition which did not always endear him to his customers, so it was no surprise that the Royal Warrant was awarded to two of their employees William France and John Bradburne instead of Cobb himself. Some of Cobb's work is in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace.
Following Vile's retirement in 1764, Cobb carried on in business with the assistance of his foreman, Samuel Reynolds (fl 1751–85). He made furniture to very high standards and earned a reputation for exquisite marquetry: Hester Thrale, the writer and friend of Dr Johnson, compared the inlaid floors at Sceaux, France, to ‘the most high prized Cabinet which Mr Cobb can produce to captivate the Eyes of his Customers’. Inlay in tropical woods, particularly satinwood, was an important element of Neo-classical furniture.
In 1772-4 Cobb produced an ‘Extra neat Inlaid Commode’ and two stands en suite for Paul Methuen at Corsham Court, Wilts, which survive in situ. In 1772 he was implicated in the smuggling of furniture from France. His most extensive work was for the 6th Earl of Coventry at Croome Court, Worcs, between 1765 and 1773. This included a large mahogany...
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1780s English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood, Sycamore, Tulipwood
Table Game English 18th Century Mahogany England
Located in New York, NY
Table Game English 18th Century Mahogany England. An English game table from the end of 18th Century. Squared and channeled legs with two folding out for when the table is open to it...
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18th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$2,000 Sale Price
55% Off
Carved Mahogany Pie Crust Claw Foot Tea Table
Located in West Hartford, CT
Elegant mahogany pie crust table with hand carved raised gallery and leather top. Resting on a carved center baluster with tripod claw and bal...
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20th Century Georgian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
George II Mahogany Card / Tea Table with Concertina Action
Located in Dallas, TX
George II mahogany games / tea table with elegant hand-carved cabriole legs with beautiful carved knees and ball and claw feet (front legs), hinged back legs (more plain with pad fee...
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
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.