North American Card Tables and Tea Tables

American Federal mahogany serpentine tea table with reeded legs, oval holly inlay with intricate stringing to skirt, stringing to the edge of the top. The tapered reeded legs have...

American Chippendale Mahogany pie crust tilt top tea table with fluted spiral center column, carved graduated acanthus legs, and resting on claw and ball feet, Mid-18th century.

American chippendale mahogany pie crust tilt top kettle stand with fluted urn center column, original brass banjo locking mechanism, and resting on carved acanthus legs with slipper ...

American Empire matchbook flame mahogany game or parlor table, circa mid-1700s. Features a hinged top concealing a hidden compartment which flips over to create a larger, square surf...

American mahogany one board demilune game table with a hinged top, oval inlays, rear gate leg, and terminating on satinwood string inlaid tapered legs. Secondary wood consist of whit...

An elegant display of the distinct influence English forms had on the craftsmen of Philadelphia, this fine mahogany card table was executed contemporarily to the same forms in London...

A very fine example remaining in excellent original condition, the table form is closely associated with a small grouping of furniture from the coastal North Carolina, particularly Edenton. The work center is distinct for its use of a dovetailed box instead of a birdcage with pillars as the rotating and tilting functionary, a technique founded in British furniture but most often employed in American furniture of coastal North Carolina, specifically Chowan County. Further related are the uses of a large turned boss rather than the more typical tri-form iron bracket beneath the pedestal to secure the dovetailed legs to the base as well as the scrolled volute leg returns at the juncture of the leg and pedestal. This is only hinted at in the present example, the soft roundel left unembellished as a simple scroll along the interior edge of each leg. Like most of the tables identified from this work center, the top is a thick and broad beautifully grained solid plank of mahogany, affixed to the dovetailed mahogany box on a pair of blunt ended cleats with original screws flanking projecting dowels from the box. The pedestal is striking for its compressed urn and tight ring turnings beneath an elongated shaft. The legs have a soft and highly effective profile, the cabriole flowing into a rounded foot over thin pads of the solid. The table is preserved in outstanding condition retaining its original iron tombstone latch and brass catch with its original hand filed steel screws, likewise with original unmoved cleats and most original screws. The large turned boss remains affixed with its original iron sprig nails. It remains a powerful presentation piece for the serious collector of American furniture of the period. Materials: All primary and secondary surfaces mahogany Literature and notes: Southern...

Tray top, unusual scallops, cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. Restored black paint over red. New England, circa 1750-1780.

American Federal period Hepplewhite mahogany tea table of New England origin. The breakfront bowfront table is in mahogany with bird's-eye maple panels, ebony and boxwood stringing. ...

NC ball and claw walnut tea table circa 1780 (New Bern, NC). Nice plain top, supported with birdcage on simple turned standard.

This is a beautiful example of a mid-18th century American tilt-top tea table that was most probably created in Salem, Massachusetts. The table appears to retain its original surface...

A lovely American Queen Ann style tea table in mahogany with one-piece round tilt-top on a spiral-vase turned column resting on three out-swept cabriole legs on Dutch snake head feet...