Baize Game Tables

An antique mid-Victorian mahogany pedestal desk, circa 1850–1870, fitted with 9 drawers and a superstructure incorporating a full-width cupboard with sliding doors. The rectangular...

Queen Anne concertina action flip top game table. The table is designed with lieu pockets and turreted porringer corners constructed of mahogany and matched mahogany veneers on Engli...

Mid-Century Modern game table with reversible top by Sergio Rodrigues, 1950s The game table designed by Sergio Rodrigues in the 1950s is a stunning piece of furniture that reflects ...

Superb quality antique English hand-carved mahogany "French Chippendale" Envelope folding Games Table with original leather-bordered baize playing s...

Antique French burr elm folding games table 19th century. This beautifully figured burr elm games table features quarter-matched burr elm veneer panels to the top and underside p...

ROCOCO REVIVAL BURL WALNUT GAMES TABLE English, Mid to late 19th Century. The serpentine hinged top swivels and opens to a baize-lined playing surface, above a scalloped skirt, on ca...

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...

Antique George III period mahogany card table in very good original condition & dating to around the 1790’s period. The back two legs open out to support the playing surface, whic...

This is an antique games table, an English, Georgian, mahogany card table with oriental overtones dating to circa 1800. Delightful square table with canted corners Displaying ori...

A Regency mahogany brass inlaid card table with a mahogany brass inlaid top which lifts up and swivels to reveal a green baize interior. It boasts a brass inlaid frieze and turned ma...

Antique George III period mahogany card table in very good original condition and dating to circa 1790s period. The back two legs open out to support the playing surface, which ha...

This is a quality William IV antique rosewood card/side table with a lovely figured rosewood crossbanded top that lifts up and swivels to reveal the original green baize interior, ro...