Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Coffee and Cocktail Tables For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Color: Brown
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Tulipwood, Mahogany and Ormolu Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome and unusual French 19th century Louis XV St. tulipwood, mahogany, and ormolu mount coffee table. The table is raised by charming cabriole legs with original ormolu ac...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Ormolu
Italian 19th Century Renaissance St. Rosewood and Alabastro Side/Cocktail Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and very unique Italian 19th century Renaissance st. Rosewood and Alabastro side/cocktail table. The table is raised by lovely circular mottled feet below exceptional and ...
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19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Louis XV Provincial Style Walnut Tea Table with Stone Top, 19th Century
Located in Buchanan, MI
A Louis XV Provincial style walnut tea table with stone top, Early 19th century. Great Scale And Patina. Feel free to call with questions.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine
Antique English Victorian Bagatelle Flip Top Game Table on Stand
Located in Forney, TX
A fun and unusual 19th century Victorian English mahogany Bagatelle game board table with nicely aged patina.
Featuring a rectangular folding portable game board with warm, rich mahogany wood case exterior, and a patinated brass hinged lid lift top that flips open to extend and reveal the baize (green felt like billiards material) lined gaming surface with semi-circular bentwood bumper at one end adorned with nine numbered holes, arranged with one in the center of the bentwood gallery and the rest surrounding it evenly in a ring. Framing the board, twenty-four contrasting inlay panels set with five holes run along either side of the board, originally used to keep score. circa 1890
The game board rests partially inset in a fitted mahogany stand base, raised on four straight square legs joined by ‘H’ stretcher.
A wonderful piece of game board history, originally designed to sit on top of a dining table or games table, this piece features a fitted stand, making it the ideal size and proportions for use as a one-of-a-kind coffee table, chair side table, cocktail table, low console, or simply displayed as a distinctive decorative folk art piece.
Dimensions (approx):
18" High, 31.25" Wide, 15.75" Deep
Open: 60" Wide
Good condition overall, especially considering age. Dark rich patina over the whole, enhanced by heavy buildup lustrous sheen and antique mahogany glow. No game pieces or accessories included. Age appropriate wear including various imperfections, with expected signs of use, including losses, checking, wear to finish and baize liner, staining, minor splitting to bent wood, all wear consistent with age and indicative of use. All of which adds to the elegant warmth, sophisticated antique character, and overall authenticity.
Please refer to photography for complete condition.
Delivered lightly cleaned, hand waxed, polished French patina finish, ready for immediate use as furniture.
History:
The origins of Bagatelle (or its many iterations) are even less clear than most games of a similar history, although we do know it has ties to French Kings, American President Abraham Lincoln, and developed into bar billiards, eventually leading to the development of pachinko and pinball.
Bagatelle was a game involving sticks and balls that evolved from efforts to bring outdoor games like ground billiards, croquet, and bowling inside for play during inclement weather. Dating all the way back to the 15th century, the most recent version came about in the 18th century.
In France, during the long 1643–1715 reign of Louis XIV, billiard tables were narrowed, with wooden pins or skittles at one end of the table, and players would shoot balls with a stick or cue from the other end, in a game inspired as much by bowling as billiards. Pins took too long to reset when knocked down, so they were eventually fixed to the table, and holes in the bed of the table became the targets. Players could ricochet balls off the pins to achieve the harder scorable holes. Quite a number of variations on this theme were developed.
In 1777 a party was thrown in honour of Louis XVI and the queen at the Château de Bagatelle, recently erected at great expense by the king's brother, the Count of Artois. Bagatelle from Italian bagattella, signifies 'a trifle', 'a decorative thing'. The highlight of the party was a new table game featuring a slender table and cue sticks, which players used to shoot ivory balls up an inclined playfield. The game was dubbed bagatelle by the count and shortly after swept through France.
From 1770 to 1850 Bagatelle was just as popular as Billiards throughout England and Britain.
Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle tables...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Chinese Qing Dynasty Elm Opium Bed Coffee Table with Rattan Top and Distressing
Located in Yonkers, NY
A large Chinese Qing Dynasty period elm wood opium bed coffee table from the 19th century, with hand-woven rattan top and original lacquer. Crea...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Elm, Rattan
Provincial Chinese Low Table, c. 1875
Located in Chicago, IL
This lovely, low-profile table once served up wine, food, and board games to guests who sat or reclined on a platform or floor. Made of Chinese northern ...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Elm
Qing Dynasty Chinese 19th Century Dark Red Lacquer Coffee Table with Rattan Top
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Chinese Qing Dynasty period dark red lacquer wooden low coffee table from the 19th century, with rattan top, low-relief carved meander motifs and spandrels. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century, this low coffee table features a rectangular top with woven rattan inset, sitting above two recessed panels adorned with a careful arrangement of meander motifs carved in low-relief. Raised on four straight feet with carved scrolling spandrels on the front and strengthened with side stretchers, the table boasts an elegant dark reddish brown lacquered finish. With its small proportions and skillfully carved décor, this antique 19th century Qing Dynasty period Chinese low coffee...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rattan, Wood
Antique Hexagonal Side or Center Walnut Table with Six Carved Legs
Located in Miami, FL
Octogonal side table with Solomonic legs and carved top and carved edges. The table has an X-Shape Solomonic stretcher .
Restored and very functional piece.
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Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Marble & Mahogany Gueridon Pedestal Table With Turned Wood Column
Located in High Wycombe, GB
19th Century Marble & Mahogany Gueridon Pedestal Table With Turned Wood Column Over a Tripod Base Terminating With Brass Paw Feet.
Would make for an excellent hallway centre table, ...
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19th Century British Empire Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Antique Burr Walnut & Marquetry Oval Coffee Table Circa 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a superb Victorian burr walnut and marquetry coffee table, circa 1860 in date.
The table top is oval in shape and features wonderfully figured burr walnut with superb boxwoo...
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1860s English Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Walnut
Antique Primitive Tree Trunk Table from 19th Century, France
Located in Edogawa-ku Tokyo, JP
Antique primitive tree trunk table with beautiful patina from France.
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19th Century French Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Ancient Coffee Table in Various Woods, France, End of 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oval ancient coffee table with 2 drawers on front and bronze decorations. Series of small medallions with genre scenes under the table, surrounded...
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19th Century French Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Wood
Antique English Coffee Table
Located in Nashville, TN
This 19th century coffee table is simple yet beautiful! This piece was orginial used as a butcher's chopping table and has been since cut down to coffee...
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1850s Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Hardwood
Large Wabi Sabi Dug-Out Cedar Japanese Coffee/Sofa Table
Located in London, GB
A unique, large dug-out Japanese coffee table.
Heavily patinated two piece cedar top on heavily patinated dug-out cedar base.
Made using 19th C. Japanese elements in our London...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Cedar
Antique Spanish Baroque Rosewood Trestle Low Table
Located in Forney, TX
A Spanish Baroque style faux tortoiseshell inlaid rosewood low table (coffee table, chair side table or end table)
Born in the late 19th / early 20th century, featuring warm rich rosewood rectangular top with exquisite grain detail, top decorated with elaborate scroll string banding and simulated tortoise-shell cartouche inlays, rising on out-sloping stretcher-joined turned and block support trestle base.
Dimensions: (approx)
17.5" High, 32" Wide, 21" Deep
As warm and attractive as it is functional, having the ideal size and proportions for a variety of different uses, including as a guéridon, cocktail drinks table...
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Rosewood
Rustic Antique Coffee Table
Located in Nashville, TN
This is a lovely little coffee table! The design is cute and rustic with natural detail and texture. There is a single centered drawer in the front of the table that adds both style ...
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1840s French Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood
19th Spanish Walnut Side Table with Lyre Legs, Beleveled Top and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
Side table of walnut with turned legs and beleveled top. Spanish, the legs are connected by an original iron stretcher, 19th century.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
19th Century Baroque Spanish Side Table with Ebonized Top and Lyre Legs
Located in Miami, FL
19th century Spanish trestle table in walnut. This piece has a great scale, lovely carved lyre legs and beautiful ebonized top. This table could be used as an end table, nightstand, ...
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Late 19th Century Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Walnut
Museum antique coffee table/console table gilded with marble around 1860, Paris
Located in Berlin, DE
Museum antique coffee table/console table gilded with marble top around 1860, Paris, Louis XVI
Richly carved solid wood body with rich ornaments...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble
Side Table of Walnut with Carved Lyre Legs and Top, Spanish, 19th Century
Located in Miami, FL
Side table of walnut with carved lyre legs with carved edges in top. Beautiful iron stretcher, Spanish, 19th century.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
Antique Indian Courtyard Door Panel from Rajasthan Made into a Coffee Table
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Indian exterior door panel from a courtyard in Rajasthan made into a coffee table with metal studs. Created in India, this coffee tabl...
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19th Century Indian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Metal
Antique Hexagonal Side or Center Walnut Table with Six Carved Legs
Located in Miami, FL
Hexagonall side table with Solomonic legs and carved top and carved edges. The table has six legs with stretcher between the legs to reinforce the stability .
Restored and very func...
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Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Walnut
Vintage Japanese Elm Wood Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coffee table made from vintage Northern Japanese elmwood. Top is naturally aged and distressed, and very smooth. Old knots and cracks add to the patina. Natural color wood, almost li...
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19th Century Japanese Rustic Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Elm
English Georgian Silver Plate and Bronze Coffee / Low Table
Located in New York, NY
English Georgian (19th Cent) rectangular coffee / low table with an elaborately cast silver plate and bronze frame and an antique etched floral and scroll design mirrored top.
Ox...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Silver, Bronze
Antique Chinese Peach wood Coffee Table
Located in Kastrup, DK
Chinese 19th century daybed / coffee table / end of bed bench.
Crafted in peach wood with a central woven rattan top panel insert mounted on a wooden board, making it sturdy enough ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rattan, Fruitwood
Giltwood Low Centre Table With A Pietre Dure Inlaid Marble Top
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Italian Carved Giltwood Low Centre Table with A Pietre Dure Marble Top.
This impressive giltwood low table has a fine pietre dure inlaid marble top inset within a gadrooned b...
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19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Edo Period Japanese Zataku Coffee Table
Located in London, GB
An Edo period low ‘zataku’ table in heavily patinated cedar timber. Pegged and jointed in construction, with traditional decorative carved legs. Japanese, circa 1850.
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Cedar
A French 19th century Louis XV st. coffee table attr to Francois Linke
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very high quality and most attractive French 19th century Louis XV st. Belle Epoque period Kingwood and Ormolu coffee table attributed to Francois Linke. The table is raised by ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Ormolu
19th Spanish Walnut Side Table with Turned Legs and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
Side table of walnut with turned legs and beleveled top. Spanish, the legs are connected by an original iron stretcher, 19th century.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Iron
Weaver 's low table , Madura (Indonésia) end of XIX°century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Huge Weaver 's low table , Madura (Indonésia) end of XIX°century
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Late 19th Century Indonesian Other Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Late 19th Century French Parquetry Inalid Side / Coffee Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality French late 19th century parquetry inlaid Kingwood side / coffee table, having gilded ormolu moldings, raised on elegant cabriole legs.
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Gründerzeit Side Table / Coffee Table in Solid Oak, 1890
Located in Lüdinghausen, DE
Side table restored Gründerzeit around 1890 Solid oak coffee table
Features:
Curved top on base with corkscrew legs
Beautiful patina
Decorative mo...
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19th Century Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Oak
Painted Continental Coffee Table
Located in Wilson, NC
Painted pine Continental coffee table, the scrub top with rounded corners has a wax finish, single drawer with steel ring pulls. The tapered legs have a connecting ''x'' stretcher wi...
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1870s Austrian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
19th Spanish Walnut Side Table with Turned Legs and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
Side table of walnut with turned legs and beleveled top. Spanish, the legs are connected by an original iron stretcher, 19th century.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
Qing Dynasty Coffee Table
Located in Kastrup, DK
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period walnut wood coffee table from the 19th century
Square top with waisted apron atop a black lacquered frame and horse hoof l...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Coffee Table with Natural Top and Original Red Painted Base
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century table cut down to coffee table height. With four board top in natural finish and red painted base. Canada, likely Newfoundland.
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19th Century Canadian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Pine, Paint
Chinese Ming Style Coffee Table
Located in Kastrup, DK
Chinese low rectangular coffee table made in walnut. Ming style.
A fine and elegant example of classical Chinese furniture in cabinet-maker quality.
Jiangsu Province 1860-1880.
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Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
Early 19th Century Qing Dynasty Period Chinese Hardwood Low Kang Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th century Qing Dynasty period Chinese hardwood low Kang table. The curved body terminates in scrolled feet and the sides are carved with naturalistic symbols of animals and ...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Hardwood
19th Spanish Walnut Side Table with Turned Legs and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
Side table of walnut with turned legs and beleveled top. Spanish, the legs are connected by an original iron stretcher, 19th century.
The frontal legs are embellished with a gold me...
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
Rare Antique English Pine Original Hand Painted Faux Grain Deacon's Trunk
Located in Charleston, SC
Rare antique English Pine original hand painted faux grain Deacon's trunk. The interior reveals the old steel strap hinges and a deacon's box.
Please no...
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1840s English Country Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Pine
William IV Mahogany Coffee Table
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
Sn5400 Simple and elegant William IV mahogany coffee table, having figured mahogany top with moulded edge above flat faceted column terminating in shaped base and original bun feet. ...
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Early 19th Century Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Napoleon III Rounded White Carrara Marble Top Gueridon Table
Located in IT
Napoleon III coffee table, late 1800s, from Veneto Italy.
In walnut wood and top in white carrara marble. Feet show black lacquered details. Conservative restoration with pad polish...
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Late 19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
English 19th Century Regency St. Chinoiserie Lacquer Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful English 19th century Regency st. Chinoiserie lacquer coffee table with removable tray. The coffee table is raised by most elegant cabriole legs with a delicate gilt fille...
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19th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Antique Primitive Coffee Table Form Italy, Mid-19th Century
Located in Edogawa-ku Tokyo, JP
Antique primitive coffee table form Italy. Mid-19th Century. The top is made with an older wooden door. Therefore, there is a keyhole on...
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Mid-19th Century Spanish Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Portuguese 19th Century Rosewood and Brass Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome Portuguese 19th century Rosewood and brass coffee table. The rectangular coffee table is raised by wonderful and extremely d...
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19th Century Portuguese Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Biedermeier 19th Century Cherrywood Dining Table/ Center Table, Austria ca. 1830
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Charming round Biedermeier dining/ center table from the renowed period in Austria around 1830. A wonderful handcrafted 19th century so-called "vase table" standing on an artfully designed, bulbous cherry veneered base. The absolutely amazing looking round table plate impresses with fine mirrormatched cherrywood which builds an outstanding pattern. An around 2" inch wide nutwood veneered frame on the outside, adorned by additional inlayed maple thread builds the perfect contrast. The highlight of this remarkable Biedermeier table is the inlay work in the center: an ebonized round field with a lovely floral design and the German words taken from the Lord´s Prayer: "unser tegliches Brot gib uns heute" - meaning: "give us this day our daily bread...
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Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Cherry, Maple, Nutwood, Spruce
Gilt Bronze Mounted Table D'appoint in Marquetry in the Style of François Linke
Located in BARSAC, FR
Very elegant Louis XV style table d'appoint in rosewood and mahogany marquetry in reserves, very finely chiseled gilt bronze ornamentation. Four slightly curved legs presenting a top...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Kingwood, Rosewood
Side Table of Walnut with Carved Lyre Legs and Top, Spanish, 19th Century
Located in Miami, FL
Side table of walnut with carved lyre legs with carved edges in top.
The lyre legs are carved inside and outside.
Beautiful iron stretcher, Spanish, 19th century.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Queen Anne Style Cabriole Leg Coffee Tables, England, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Queen Anne style cabriole leg coffee tables, England, 19th Century. Great patina. New stone tops.
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Late 19th Century English Queen Anne Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Granite
Italian 19th Century Scagliola And Rosso De Verona Marble Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most decorative Italian 19th century Scagliola and Rosso de Verona marble coffee table. The square coffee table is raised by an impressive 18th century Rosso de Verona...
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19th Century Italian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Cast Iron Victorian Outdoor Table
Located in Milano, IT
Sweet cast iron English Victorian table. The table is made of cast iron painted white. Great workmanship of the cast iron that features ornamen...
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1890s Italian Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Cast Stone
Russian Tavern Table
Located in Wilson, NC
This pine tavern table has a wide overhanging top. The drawer has the original hand carved knob and applied drawer front. The base of the table has the or...
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1840s Russian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Pine
19thC English Pine Mule Chest
Located in Staffordshire, GB
circa 1840
19thC Pine Mule Chest
W127 x D55 x H69cm.
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19th Century Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Pine
Qing Dynasty Coffee Table
Located in Kastrup, DK
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period elm wood coffee table with square top.
The table has a natural age-related patina.
From Jiangsu province, Qing period, 1...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Elm
Victorian Burr Walnut Baby Sutherland Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Late 19th Century Burr Walnut Baby Sutherland Type Coffee Table, Having Superbly Figured Oval Drop Flap Top, Raised On Elegant Turned Legs And Supports Retaining Original Castors.
The epitome of versatility, Baby Sutherland tables are one of our best selling articles.
This one is veneered with attractive burr walnut and stands at coffee table height, which means that with both flaps raised it makes a great portable coffee table with the additional bonus of being able to have its flaps folded down and can
be tucked away when not in use, taking up effectively no floor space whatsoever of consequence.
The term “Sutherland Table” is believed to originate from the first full size, non “baby” variants of these tables being named after The Duchess Of Sutherland...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
Charles X Rounded Wooden Small Elm Veneer Table
Located in IT
Charles X round wooden coffee table in Elm Burl. Conservative restoration.
Diameter. 57cm, h 76cm.
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19th Century Charles X Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Mahogany Coffee Table
Located in Cheshire, GB
Regency mahogany coffee table, the shaped rectangular top having molded edge raised on a pedestal base and splayed legs. This table has b...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Orientalist Style Smoking Table
Located in New York, NY
Orientalist style smoking table. English carved wood pedestal side table with all the gentleman’s smoking accoutrements; Herculaneum style urn-form r...
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19th Century English Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Antique, New and Vintage Coffee Tables and Cocktail Tables
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs. Browse a vast selection of antique, new and vintage coffee table and cocktail tables today.
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