Cross-Banded Card Tables and Tea

A fine antique American late Federal/Empire carved mahogany fold-over tea/games/card table, circa 1830. The table having a fold-over & swivel top, below is a carved and gadrooned ap...

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...

Very elegant proportions and fine woods make this table exceptional. New leather playing surface.

Round leather top games table, by William Tillman. A very unique, English made, circa 1975, traditional English tilt top table with mahogany pockets for gaming pieces. The top is ma...

A Very Good Quality 19th Century, Regency Period Mahogany Tea Table, Having Superbly Figured Foldover Top With Banded Decoration And Well Figured Interior Retaining Good Surface And Patina, Above Elegantly Figured Frieze With Matchstick Fluted Decoration, Raised On Rare Extravagant Turned Sabre Legs With Carved Scrolling Decoration To Feet. As suggested by the name, tea tables were made to serve tea from. Often part of a pair, with an identical matching card table, or even a wider suite of furniture they would simply stand to one side in a room and be pulled out, then opened up when required to allow for the placement of trays containing all that is required to serve tea from. Now of course aside from its original purpose this table suits a whole variety of different spaces around the home. It could be used as a console table, a pier table, a simple side table or even as a card games table. Constructed from well figured, high grade mahogany which would have been expensive to purchase in the late 18th century it is incredibly elegant and very good quality. Clearly a lot of effort has gone into the overall look of the table and the cabinet making has been well executed. The legs are quite spectacular, a design which we have actually never come across before. They are certainly something very special and, dare we say it, possibly even a unique feature, which will no doubt be a talking point once the table is standing proudly in position. As with all items which we offer for sale it has been through our workshops, where our highly skilled, traditional antique furniture...

This Edwardian mahogany envelope card table, circa 1900 is a very unique design with a beautifully figured top with crosssbanded satinwood edge. Th...

Antique Folding Pedestal Card Table, Mid 19th Century. This is a wonderful folding card table with a very distinct pedestal base. Made in the middle of the 19th century, this is a t...

The rectangular hinged top with a rosette-carved edge, on a blind fretwork frieze and pierced brackets, raised on molded square legs.

Mahogany card table. The serpentine-fronted top with canted corners opening to a baize-lined gaming surface above the square tapering canted legs carved with a oval paterae. I...

18th century Georgian mahogany triple top games table with ebony and satinwood inlay. Circa 1740.

This is a rosewood game, card table made in England, circa 1850. The top has rounded corners and a nicely molded edge. The top spins open to reveal storage for game pieces, cards, et...

With rectangular hinged top with turret corners opening to a conforming felt lined playing surface with wells for game pieces. Fitted with a drawer with cabriole legs and pad feet.