George IV Serving Tables

Napoleon III walnut and brass serving table, French This can also be used as a side table. One drawer and two shelves circa 1880 Good antique condition. Shipping: L42 P33 ...

Large serving tray table on a carved mahogany X base with cross stretchers. Tray features brass handles and a basket weave interior. Excellent condition. 38" x 24" x 34" high.

An important antique Irish George III Chippendale mahogany serving table/sideboard, circa 1770. The table made from the finest solid Cuban mahogany, having a serpentine shaped front ...

English Regency console or serving table. Brown marble top. Neoclassical stop fluted columns supporting break fronted crown moulding and brown ...

An exceptionally fine Adam period mahogany serving table. Legs are carved on all sides, the carving of the highest quality. Pictured in Connoisseur Magazine , April 1966. With Denys ...

Great quality wood. Rectangular breakfront form top with molded frieze with drawers at each end raised on lion head monopodia terminating on paw feet joining a lower shelf with reces...

Irish George II-Style Mahogany Side Table – A Masterpiece of Antique Furniture in Sussex This Irish George II-style mahogany side table exemplifies late 19th century craftsmanship i...

Serpentine top with egg and dart edge. Conforming fluted frieze with central carved urn with swags. Raised on tapered fluted square legs. With Hyde Park Antiques.

An elegant George III mahogany rectangular serving table in the Adam Style, with horizontal reeded frieze and supported by six round straight legs, tapered with panels, terminating w...

An unusual George IV specimen marble backgammon table attributed to Gillows. This rectangular table is strongly attributed to Gillows. It has a rectangular top inlaid with a central chess board flanked by two backgammon fields, all inlaid with a multitude of specimen marbles. One edge carved and gilded with the Latin motto ‘Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare’. The oak base has a drawer for cards and playing pieces, all raised on a square section support with four splayed legs and the original brass castors. English, circa 1830. Provenance: Geoffrey Bennison Ltd, London, November 1983 The Mermaid House Collection, St. John’s Wood, London Property of a gentleman Private American collection The form of the base of this table is related to several known Gillows commissions from the late Regency period and the quality of the cabinet work also suggests that firm attribution to the firm. Backgammon tables, rather than more general games tables, are unusual at this date and the use of inlaid specimen marbles in the top suggests a client of wealth. Additionally, the Latin text on the edge of the table provides further clues. The text, Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare, translates as “it is shameful to live in your homeland and not know it”. This phrase dates back to antiquity but rose to prominence once again in the mid-18th century when used by the botanist and key Enlightenment figure Carl Linnaeus in his work on the native flora of Sweden. The combination of this phrase and the use of native English timbers and marbles is promoting English raw materials and craftsmanship at a time when the noble and the wealthy were focussed on European pietra dura tables. Mermaid House in St John’s Wood was re-designed by Chester Jones...

With a rectangular top and plain frieze, the legs with shell carved knee and bellflower within a shaped lambs tongue carving, ending on carved fur and cloven feet.

Rectangular with serpentine shape over a frieze with central carved neoclassical urn flanked by fluting and roundels. Raised on square section tapered fluted legs and block feet. Provenance; Hackwood Park, Hampshire. Sold Christies London April 20-22 1998. Hackwood Park was built from 1683 to 1687 for a son of the fifth Marquess of Winchester, Charles Paulet , created Duke of Bolton [1630-1699], created 1st Duke of Bolton in 1689. In the middle of the 18th century the 5th duke [1718-1765] engaged the architect John Vardy to undertake a major interior refurbishment. The property was sold in 1936 to newspaper publisher William Berry...