Period French Directoire Triple Top Games Table or Demilune Console Table

With triple top opening to a velvet playing surface. With interior well. Raised on circular tapered legs with carved lappet design at top of legs. Ending on...

An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany console/games table. The table is raised by four square tapered legs with finely mottled sabots and top caps. The straight apron...

French game table and console. When closed it is a demilune console inlaid in walnut and fruitwood. When open the circular surface is embossed leather and wooden inlaid stripe border...

Continental Directoire fruit wood demi lune games table, early 19th century. Having a demi lune top which when opened becomes a round top, a fruit wood...

18th century triple top games table, the triple fold over top consisting of an oak lined compartment, a green baize playing surface and a solid top surface,...

A fine Federal period American Classical maple morphing table from the early 19th century. Exquisitely hand-crafted in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, circa 1830, exceptionally...

Circa 1765 Georgian period triple-fold games & tea table, English. The triple fold is a rare form. Raised on square legs with fine Gothic open fretwork returns. Finish & baized surfa...

French Louis XVI style console table/games table Versatile console table, top flips open and becomes a felt-topped games table, w...

Gorgeous games or chess table in the French Empire manner In itself can function as a demi lune console table Intricate marquetry inlay on all surfaces Bought from a dealer on Marche...

A rare and highly important Russian imperial period gilt-bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid, triple turn-over games table. St. Petersburg, circa 1820. This rare and elegant marquetry games table, or Lomberian, is representative of the golden age of Russian craftsmanship of the early nineteenth century. The table, in keeping with courtly pursuits of the day, has a triple turn-over top, opening successively to reveal a chess board and a leather playing surface for cards. The upper surface is veneered with exceptional marquetry inlay in stained sycamore, holly, boxwood, and Russian native timbers. It is centred by an oval roundel with a decorative and highly unusual still-life tableau of playing cards and dice. The distinctive form of the decorative marquetry inlay and the use of rich indigenous timbers confirm the Russian origin of this table. The flowering tendrils being a distinctive feature of the work of a small group of St Petersburg cabinet makers such as Nikifor Vasilyev and Matvei Veretennikov. Both of these master cabinet makers were serfs, Veretennikov belonging to Count Alexander Vasilievich Soltikov and Vassilyev belonging to the Sheremetev estate. It is interesting to note, that of the small number of known masterpieces by these makers, two of them are elaborately inlaid gaming tables, confirming its importance as a furniture type amongst the Upper Classes of the period. A late 18th century marquetry...