Kingwood Dining Room Tables

A centre table attributed to Holland and Sons related to a table in Clarence House, this exceptional table has a circular top decorated with six radiating amboyna veneers with a border of concentric marquetry rings. The decoration comprising kingwood bands within boxwood stringing, a continuous boxwood laurel wreath with ivory berries on a satinwood ground and further amboyna borders. The frieze has amboyna crossbanding and applied ormolu sunburst medallions. The support is composed of purpleheart columns inlaid with kingwood, terminating in low splayed feet, which encircle a classical urn on a plinth. The superb ormolu mounts include acanthus leaves, classical masks and patera. English, circa 1860. A table with a similar base and particularly fine ormolu mounts was exhibited by Holland and Sons in the International Exhibition in 1862 and illustrated as plate 40 in J. B. Waring’s book (see pages 100-103 for further references to this exhibition). A further closely related piece was in the collection of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and is shown in the Morning Room in Clarence House in the Daily Mail’s article ‘Inside the private world of Prince Charles’, November 2018. Originally founded by Stephen Taprell and William Holland...

For sale is a good quality Victorian burr walnut & marquetry circular breakfast table, having a well figured and inlaid top, above a...

Satinwood & Kingwood Victorian ebony inlay octagonal table, 19th century. The top with beautifully figured and deeply coloured satinwood inlaid with...

A very lovely early Art Deco dining table fabricated by A. Brants Tonnemans at their workshop in Brussels, circa 1915. Table features a rectangular top with rounded corners which rests on tapered cylindrical legs cupped with bronze doré sabots embellished with palmettes. The top has a quilted-plum...