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Card Tables and Tea Tables For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
Rare and Unusual Early 19th Century Turn over Leaf Card Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A rare and unusual early 19th century richly patinated fruitwood turn over leaf card table in lovely original condition, finely hand carved with stunning detail throughout. The mould...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Swedish 19th Century Occasional Table
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a very rustic small occasional table that was most likely used in the kitchen back in the 19th Century. It's condition is consistent with it's age and use.
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19th Century Swedish Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Pine
19th Century French Provincial Walnut Folding Wine Table - Antique Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A small, round antique French Provincial wine folding table made of hand crafted Walnut, in good condition. The Vigneron tables are used in France as oc...
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Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Aesthetic Tilt Top Center or Gaming Table with Molded Leather Lined Pedestal
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Aesthetic Period tilt top square center table in its original dark finish, with inlaid border top, carved corner decorations, supported by a molded leather...
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19th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
19th C French Louis XV Style Card or Game Table, Ca 1860
Located in Delft, NL
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...
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19th Century French Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Fruitwood
Inlaid and Carved Walnut Coffee Table, 1840 Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique small table, for coffee or living room, inlaid by hand and carved in precious solid walnut wood, hand-built in 1840 for an elegant living r...
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19th Century Italian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
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
Chinese Square Burlwood Table, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This square center table dates to the mid-19th century and wonderfully exemplifies Qing-dynasty furniture design. Found at the center of social activity, Chinese square tables such a...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood, Burl
Liberty & Co. an Anglo-Moorish Arts & Crafts Walnut Fold over Card & Games Table
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co. an Anglo-Moorish Arts & Crafts fold over card and games table in Walnut with green baize interior when open. Turned details to the upper and arched apron with turned an...
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1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Russian 19th Century Marquetry Game Table, 1820
Located in Rome, IT
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...
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1820s Russian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Baker Furniture English Barley Twist Oak, Burl, and Cane Tea Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Jacobean style English barley twist tea table or occasional side table
By Baker Furniture
USA, Circa 1970s
Carved oak, with caned lower shelf and original brass ...
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1970s American Jacobean Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Restored Antique Kidney Shaped Occasional Table with Drawers Brown Leather Top
Located in GB
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
Lovely Antique Victrian circa 1880 Chess Games Table with Fold over Card Baize
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this very nice antique Victorian English oak chess table with fold over card table top
A good looking and well made piece, as you can see the main top is...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Oak
1970's Italian Brass & Smoked Glass Nesting Tables
Located in Praha, CZ
Set of 3 coffee tables made of brass and smokey glass.
All parts are original in very good vintage condition (see photo).
Made in Italy in the 1970's.
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1970s Italian Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Regency Mahogany Loo Breakfast Centre Table Tilt Top
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique fine quality Regency 1825 mahogany tilt top loo, centre or breakfast table.
Solid, heavy and with no loose joints. Beautiful gun barrel pedestal base.
No loose joints o...
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1820s Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Coffee Table Bar Cart in Brass, Smoked Glass and Mirror, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Vintage bar cart / coffee table in smoked glass, smoked mirror and brass details.
It also features two closable and three open boxes which could be used to storage bottles, magaz...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
19th Century Thomas Chippendale Fret Work Carved Silver Tea Occasional Table
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare Thomas Chippendale style, Fret work carved, occasional silver tea table in Mahogany
This table is stunning, I would say mid to la...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Hardwood
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 THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION.
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
Biedermeier Card Table, South German 1820, Walnut
Located in Belmont, MA
Biedermeier card or console table, South German 1820. The table has beautiful walnut veneer on top, sides and legs. The top can be folded out and turned and then rests on the base of...
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1810s German Biedermeier Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Rosewood William IV Tea Table, circa 1840
Located in Lincoln, GB
An extremely fine well figured Rosewood Regency (typical William IV) Tea table circa. 1840 with brass stringing decoration to the top and to the pedestal as well as the four splayed ...
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1840s British Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
French Louis XV-Style Tea Table with Cabriole Legs, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Crafted in France in the late 19th century, this refined Louis XV-style side table boasts a timeless, lightweight design defined by delicate cabriole legs ending in square hoof feet....
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Oak
Antique French Neo-Classical Folding Card or Game Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
An elegant French envelope game table. By opening the four hinged triangular sections the small end table in the neoclassical style becomes a square game or card table with black lea...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood, Leather
Regency Period Rosewood Card Table
Located in London, GB
A fine quality early 19th century Regency period rosewood card table with satinwood banding, brass line inlays and brass mounts, having canted cornered rectangular top above panelled...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
English Oval Paper Mache Tray Table on Custom Sabre Leg Stand, c. 1835
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Oval black paper mache tray top coffee table with gold leaf border decoration, mounted on a custom sabre leg stand with conforming apron.
...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Early 19th Century Game Table, South German, 1810-20
Located in Belmont, MA
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. ...
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1810s German Biedermeier Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Vintage Travertine Side Tables by Willy Ballez, 1970s
Located in HEVERLEE, BE
Pair of architectural coffee tables or side tables made from a solid travertine base and with a beveled glass top.
The tables where designed by Willy Ballez.
The modern look/design mixes...
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1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Travertine
Antique Victorian Ormolu Mounted Marquetry Envelope Card Table 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique Victorian ormolu-mounted envelope card table, circa 1880 in date.
The card table is made from superb quality Gonçalo Alves, has the most striking musical...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Card Table in the Rococo Taste
By Charles A. Baudoine
Located in New York, NY
RECORDED: cf. Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio, ed., Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (Syracuse University Press, Utica, New York, 1999), pp. 85, 86, 87 illus. the Munson-Williams-Proctor tables // cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19th Century America–Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (1970), exhib. cat., [n.p.] no.133
This table is identical to a pair of card tables bearing the stenciled label of Charles A. Baudouine of 335 Broadway, New York, which were acquired by James and Helen Munson Williams of Utica, New York, in May 1852 for their home, Fountain Elms, which is where they remain today as part of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute collection. The Williams tables were billed as “1 Rosewood Multiform Table” at $160 for the pair, and they were indeed “multiform” in that they could be used separately and folded as a pair of console tables, opened as a pair of card tables, or joined together as a center table. The present table varies essentially in the fact that it does not include the mechanism that would have allowed it to be attached to another to form a center table.
Of French descent, Baudouine was born in New York in 1808. He made his debut as a cabinetmaker in the New York directory of 1829/30, where he is listed at 508 Pearl Street. By 1839/40 he relocated to Broadway, where he remained in business at various addresses until about 1854. A sense of the scale of Baudouine’s operation is given by German immigrant cabinetmaker Ernest Hagen...
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Mid-19th Century North American Rococo Revival Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood, Rosewood
Antique American Late Federal/Empire Mahogany Tea/Games/Card Table, circa 1830
Located in Portland, OR
American late federal/empire mahogany fold-over tea/games/card table, circa 1830. The table having a fold-over & swivel top, below is a carved and gadrooned skirt. The table standing...
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Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Mahogany Demilune Table on Spade Feet
Located in Houston, TX
Elegant late 18th century. English demilune card table.
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19th Century Georgian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Tea Table
Located in Cheshire, GB
Regency mahogany tea table, the folding and swivel top, above ebony line inlaid frieze. Raised up on four reeded-turned tapering legs.
Dime...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Very Rare and Fine Pair of 19th Century Inlaid Card Tables
Located in Dublin, IE
A very rare and fine pair of 19th Century inlaid mahogany card tables in excellent condition. Line inlaid throughout and with exquisite marquetry detail depicting Neoclassical motifs...
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19th Century English Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Fine Pair of Regency Period Figured Rosewood Card Tables
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of 19th century Regency period figured rosewood card tables. The rounded rectangular tops are cross banded and inlaid with decorative brass motifs. Raised above a panelle...
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1820s English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Regency-Period Rosewood Card Tables
Located in New Orleans, LA
These exceptional Regency card tables were designed with dual purposes in mind. Crafted of rosewood, the tables serve as attractive console tables when closed. When opened, the table...
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19th Century English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of 19th Century Regency Gonzalo Alves Card Tables
Located in Dublin, IE
A stunning pair of Regency turnover card / games tables with rounded front corners enclosing a green baize lined interior. Each frieze with a rectangular gadrooned panel on a cylindr...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Pie Crust Tilt-Top Tea Table
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Elegant tea table with an unusually shaped top, having a raised and scalloped carved edge, resting on a baluster column carved with foliate design and supported by three cabriole leg...
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19th Century British Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
19th Century English Victorian Rosewood Inlaid Envelope Card Table
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality Victorian rosewood inlaid envelope card table, remaining in very good condition for its age.
Measures: Width: 53cm Depth: 53cm Height: 73cm.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
19th Century Walnut / Burr Walnut English Game / Card Table
Located in Savannah, GA
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...
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1870s English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut, Burl
19th Century English Regency Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Card Table
Located in Essex, MA
Wonderful Period rosewood English Regency flip top card or games table. Brass inlay with carved Classical elements in the style of Thomas Hope.
Opens and turns to reveal a 36" squ...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Antique English Mahogany Chippendale Fretwork Tea Table
Located in New Orleans, LA
Our tea table is beautiful and useful. It will not disappoint. The Chippendale fretwork is nicely rendered.
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Mid-19th Century English Chippendale Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Empire Style Card or Tea Table, Vienna 1880-1900
Located in Belmont, MA
This unique card or tea table dates back to around 1880-1900 and comes from Vienna. It has an elegant mahogany veneer and gorgeous bronze fittings. The small table has a fold out top...
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1880s Austrian Empire 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...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
George III Card Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish George III card table dates to the early 19th century and was acquired from an Albany, NY estate. The piece is detailed with inlaid marquetry and a cartouche of a shell....
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Early 19th Century English George III Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Directoire Card Table, 1800-10, Mahogany
Located in Belmont, MA
This French Directoire card table dates back to around 1800-10, It has a pretty mahogany veneer. The table stands on four pointed legs. The top can be folded out and rests on the pul...
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Early 1800s French Directoire 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
Antique Card Table, French, Burr Walnut, Fold over, Games, Victorian, circa 1870
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique card table. A French, burr walnut fold-over games table, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1870.
Highly appealing, rare antique gaming table
Displays a desirable aged patina
Exquisite burr walnut shows fine grain interest
Rich caramel hues shine through the wax polish finish
The fold-over top offers a wonderful view of its quarter book-matched walnut
Decorated with boxwood inlay and a gently chamfered edge
Rotating through 90 degrees before folding out to reveal the playing surface
Shaped, emerald green baize a treat for the eyes
The brass hinges shaped to match the gaming surface
Attractive carved front apron replete with scrolled foliate ormolu decoration to the knees
Standing upon gently swept cabriole legs with brass tipped toes
Vintage deck...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Walnut
Late 19th C. Parquetry Mixed Woods and Turned Twisted Legs Card Tea Table
Located in Germantown, MD
A stunning Late 19th C. Parquetry Mixed Woods and Turned Twisted Legs Card table, Tea Table. Amazing parquetry work out of fines wood species such as satinwood, walnut, burl mahogany...
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Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Mahogany, Satinwood, Walnut, Burl
English Chippendale Georgian Pie Crust Tilt-Top Table
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A tilt-top Chippendale style tea table in mahogany, with pie crust, dish top supported on an acanthus decorated turned pedestal, with a tripod base ending in claw and ball feet. The ...
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Late 19th Century British Chippendale Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Mid-Century Modern Rutter Dining Table after Isamu Noguchi in Birch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A beautifully designed Rutter dining table after Isamu Noguchi for Herman Miller. It features flamed birch plywood construction with steel hairpin legs. Overall all in very good cond...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Steel
Lou Hodges California Modern Cerused Oak Extendable Dining Table, c 1979, Signed
By Lou Hodges
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This newly refinished cerused oak and walnut extendable dining table by Lou Hodges for California Design Group, circa 1979, has incredible vivid oak graining throughout with walnut a...
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1970s American Modern Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Oak, Walnut
19th Century Linke Inlaid Card Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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 ...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Queen Anne Card Table, Antique Mahogany Tables Games
Located in Potters Bar, GB
- Stunning Queen Anne card table in mahogany
- Classic pad foot feet and curved Queen Anne legs
- Table opens out to reveal blue beize material games playing surface
- Bought from...
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1880s Queen Anne Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique English George IV Rosewood Card Table by James Winter London, C.1825
Located in London, GB
Antique English George IV rosewood card table by James Winter London, C.1825
A Georgian pedestal card table in beautifully figured rosewood throughout and
with a dark pink circul...
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Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Rosewood
60s 70s Teak Serving Trolley Side Table Danish Design Denmark
Located in Neuenkirchen, NI
60s 70s teak serving trolley side table Danish Design Denmark
Object: Serving trolley
Manufacturer:
Condition: good
Age: around 1960-1970
Dimensions:
73cm x 43cm x ...
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1970s Danish Vintage Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Teak
English Mahogany One Board Parquetry Tilt-Top Tea Table Desert Table, C. 1860s
Located in Germantown, MD
19th century Victorian mahogany antique tripod tea table, occasional table. Excellent parquetry work from center to edge mahogany triangles and scallop parquetry edges. Top seems to ...
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Mid-19th Century British Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Iron
Early 19th Century Antique American Federal Mahog. & Birch Flap-Top Games Table
By John & Thomas Seymour
Located in Charleston, SC
This is a spectacular antique American Federal New England period highly figured mahogany and satin birch Flap-top serpentine Games or Card Table in the manner of the workshop of Joh...
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Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Birch, Mahogany, Rosewood
Victorian Card Table, circa 1880
Located in Lincoln, GB
A beautiful inlaid card table with brass detail on the corners and the legs. A lovely piece of furniture with history and character.
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1880s English Victorian Antique Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Brass
American Neoclassical Feather Carved Mahogany Tilt Top Tea Table, 1815
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American neoclassical rectangular single board tilt top tea table of dramatically figured mahogany with clipped corners. The top is supported by a turned and superbly feather carved mahogany pedestal shaft on tripod spider leg base...
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1810s American Neoclassical 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.
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