English Demi-lune Tables

Each top painted in faux porphyry with beaded edge; over a white-painted base with Greek key and rosette carved frieze, raised on turned tapering stop-fluted legs wrapped with acanth...

Early 20th century Edwardian semi-circle console table. English, Early 20th century. Dimensions: height 74cm, width 92cm, depth 37cm. This el...

Featuring charming polychrome hand painted decoration of various flowers from the garden. The top centered by a hand painted basket of flowers including roses, hydrangea, and auri...

This fine untouched gem is in every way a convenient console table - the demilune shape of the front allows it to be positioned in active hallways without fear of catching corners, w...

An unusual pair of early Victorian mahogany console tables attributed to Gillows, each demilune top set above four tapering, reeded an...

A pair of late Victorian demilune mahogany console tables, attributed to Edwards and Roberts, each of hemispherical form with a single disguised fri...

An attractive pair of George III period mahogany demilune console tables, the figured mahogany half round tops overhanging a boxwood and ebonized inlaid apron supported on square tap...

A George II mahogany demilune flip-top games or table with a well, supported on tapering legs ending in pad feet, circa 1760.

This extraordinary pair of demi-lune, or half-moon, side tables is exactly the kind of furniture to which Thomas Sheraton devoted his career. The surfaces of these tables are beautifully detailed with walnut and satinwood marquetry, inlaid with a floral geometric design and radial veneered semi-circle executed with the greatest precision and craftsmanship. Each is set upon elegant, foliate carved giltwood legs. Sheraton believed that furniture should only be created to be fashionable, but it should be designed with more permanent scientific and geometrical principles in mind in order to impart a more lasting quality. This superb pair of tables is a fine example of the principles set forth by this incredible designer. Circa 1780 38” wide x 18” deep x 31” high Thomas Sheraton was born in 1751 in Stockton-on-Tees, England, and though very little is known of his early life, it has been deduced that his was a poor upbringing. He moved to London in 1790 where he supported a wife and two children. For a man whose name is synonymous with the finest furniture of the late 18th-century, he did not support his family as a cabinetmaker. Though he is often credited with introducing the "Sheraton" style of furniture, Thomas Sheraton only worked as a cabinetmaker for a very short time. Though he was well versed in the techniques of cabinetmaking and may have even been trained as such, Sheraton devoted most of his time to the innovation of furniture design and, after 1793, indicated his profession as a teacher of perspective, architecture and cabinetmaking. For the most part, he was a designer of furniture and it was his immensely popular pattern book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1791) that influenced an entire generation of English cabinetmaking. Even with that in mind, Sheraton's primary source of income came from his writings on various subjects, his favorites being furniture design and theology. He spent quite a bit of time, in fact, traveling as a Baptist preacher. Sheraton would continue to write two more important books on furniture design, The Cabinet Directory (1803) and a second and third addition of the Drawing Book (1794 and 1802). Unlike his contemporaries, Chippendale and Hepplewhite, who were practical craftsmen, Thomas Sheraton was more a man of ideas, a visionary of how furniture styles should evolve. These more scholarly pursuits, however, left him in poverty later in life, while those who had a better head for business would go on to profit from his designs. Today, Thomas Sheraton is considered among the greatest furniture designers in history and his influence over the past 200 years has been far reaching. References: The Sheraton Director, The Furniture Designs of Thomas Sheraton, 1990, J. Munro Bell Sheraton Furniture, 1962, Ralph Fastnedge Discovering Antiques...

An English Hepplewhite period mahogany demilune table, the string inlaid and satinwood banded flip-top concealing a felt lined inner surface, t...

Fine and rare English neoclassical demilune console table in the Adam taste, the top with floral and insect decorates border in the manner of George Brookshaw, on a straw ground, the inner panel with grisille scene of playing cherubs, the apron with carved bow, swag and paterea piqued in gold, the top and bottom molding similarly decorated, the turned carved and stop fluted legs ending in pinecone carved...

A Hepplewhite mahogany demilune fliptop game table, the satinwood crossbanded top, the inside lined in green felt, on square tapered legs ending in spade feet.