Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Walnut
1760s English Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
1780s English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Late 18th Century William IV Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century British Other Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1750s French Louis XVI Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1760s English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1780s English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
18th Century George II Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood, Oak
1780s English Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass, Steel
Late 18th Century Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1750s American Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wrought Iron, Brass
1790s American Hepplewhite Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany, Satinwood
1740s English Queen Anne Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Late 18th Century British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Late 18th Century Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Elm
1790s British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
1770s British Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Late 18th Century English Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
1770s British Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1780s British Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Mid-18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Walnut
Late 18th Century British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
17th Century European Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Late 18th Century British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Late 18th Century French Rustic Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wrought Iron
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century Italian Rustic Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Cherry
Early 18th Century American Federal Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century English Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood, Mahogany
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1710s Italian Louis XIV Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Leather, Walnut
Mid-18th Century English Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Walnut, Hardwood
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1780s English George II Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century English George II Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1760s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Padouk
Early 1700s Italian Romantic Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Walnut
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Mid-18th Century Irish Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1760s Scottish Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1760s English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Late 18th Century American Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Cherry
1780s English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Hardwood
18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood, Mahogany
Late 18th Century British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1760s English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
Late 18th Century European Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century British Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Antique and Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-Top Tables
In preparing for your next holiday party or dinner party, an antique or vintage dessert table might just be the perfect finishing touch.
Dessert tables are elegant pieces essential for hosting both formal and casual gatherings. Also known as tilt-top tables or loo tables (named for the card game), these eye-catching furnishings make it easy to host large parties so that guests are not confined to a single space for the night. The top of a tilt-top table is typically hinged to a pedestal in the structure’s center so that its surface can be turned from a horizontal to a vertical position and parked in the corner of a living room or dining room. This gives it an advantage over a traditional side table and allows it to take up less space when it’s not in use.
Dessert tables are deliberately built small or narrow so that they are easy to maneuver. These compact tables were especially prominent in the 18th century in the United States and England where they regularly accompanied social interactions like tea drinking. During the early 1920s, the sterling-silver full tea service and tray designed by Tiffany & Co. set atop your dessert table might include a hot-water kettle on a stand, a coffeepot, a teapot, a creamer with a small lip spout, a waste bowl and a bowl for sugar, which the British were stirring into tea by the 1720s and ’30s.
Older dessert tables often feature intricate carvings and motifs, making them enduringly popular through the decades. Many tilt-top tables likewise have elaborate veneers for a decoration that can be viewed when they are tilted down and stored against a wall.
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