Ormolu Game Tables

A Very Interesting Late 19th Century Italian Gilt Bronze Specimen Marble Top Game Table The inlaid circular top with a chess board design and surrounded with a variety of marbles in...

An antique French Louis XV style game table offers mahogany construction with marquetry and cast ormolu mounts, raised on cabriole legs, c1920 Measures - 30"h x 33"w x 33"d Ca...

This is a fabulous high quality vintage Italian burr walnut, floral marquetry and ormolu inlaid metamorphic triple top games table for roulette, cards, chess, draughts, backgammon and blackjack. mid 20th century in date. The lift-off top flips over to reveal a chess board, with an internal flip over board with a green baize lined gaming interior, one side is for playing cards, poker and mahjong, and the other side is for black jack. There are counter recesses for chips with a central panel for backgammon which opens again to reveal a further panel with a roulette wheel, counter wells with counters and a green roulette baize marked scoring panel. Complete with chess set, draughts & backgammon sets, 2 packs of cards, chips, mah jong dice, dice and 2 roulette balls, The table sits on a cylindrical pedestal on a circular base with four ormolu mounted splay feet. It is an elegant piece which will enhance a special room in your home. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, the Roulette baize is original, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 79 x Width 124 x Depth 124 Dimensions in inches: Height 2 foot, 7 inches x Width 4 feet, 1 inch x Depth 4 feet, 1 inch Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even. The game has been played in its present form since as early as 1796 in Paris. An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796. The description included the house pockets, "There are exactly two slots reserved for the bank, whence it derives its sole mathematical advantage." It then goes on to describe the layout with, "... two betting spaces containing the bank's two numbers, zero and double zero...

A French Antique Ormolu-Mounted mahogany envelope games card table, C. 1870, attributed to Henry Dasson. A very elegant and high quality, French Louis XVI style, mahogany and bro...

A Napoleon III parquetry card table by Sormani, the shaped hinged top with ormolu ribbon and bead guilloche edging, decorated overall in kingwood, tulipwood and satinwood diamond tre...

Napoleon III period console/ game table in black fruitwood with bronze decoration and marquetry top with brass inlay opens to 60 inch game table for bridge, or other card games, orig...

Louis XVI style tulip wood and mahogany napkin fold games table with gilt bronze mounts and a tooled leather playing surface., signed (stamped) Haentges, Paris, circa 1920. Dimension...

A fine French kingwood games table in the manner of Francois Linke with decorative scrollwork inlay top with swivel folding top which opens to a full green felt top game surface with...

This is a superb antique French Louis XV Revival ormolu-mounted mahogany and marquetry rounded rectangular marquetry card table, circa 1880 in date. This splendid card table featu...

Continental Empire mahogany center / game table with ormolu mount, circa 1820. With a plum pudding mahogany / burl top and a crotch mahogany pedestal with a band of ormolu around the...

Period mahogany, ebony and bone Louis XVI backgammon or tric-trac games table Original ormolu-mounted Louis XVI form with tapered and fluted le...

This is a fabulous high quality antique French mahogany, parquetry decorated and ormolu mounted games table, stamped Essgdg Paris, Circa 1860 in date. With hinged lid enclosing a green baize roulette / games board with a sliding drawer that is fitted with a roulette wheel, and it is raised on fluting tapering legs. The hinged top opens to reveal a fabulous gaming interior for playing cards and roulette. It is an elegant piece which will enhance a special room in your home. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and polished in our workshops, the baize for the card table and the Roulette is original and also in excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 76 x Width 92 x Depth 52 - Closed Height 76 x Width 141 x Depth 93 - Open Dimensions in inches: Height 29.9 x Width 36.2 x Depth 20.5 - Closed Height 29.9 x Width 55.5 x Depth 36.6 - Open Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even. The game has been played in its present form since as early as 1796 in Paris. An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796. The description included the house pockets, "There are exactly two slots reserved for the bank, whence it derives its sole mathematical advantage." It then goes on to describe the layout with, "... two betting spaces containing the bank's two numbers, zero and double zero...