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Tray Tables For Sale
Creator: Maitland Smith
Creator: Henry Clay
Leather Tray Table by Maitland Smith 1980s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Serving tray table from the elegant house of Maitland Smith in a fabulous all-leather finish with gold accents. It presents scuffs on the leather that give the piece personality, mak...
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1980s Chippendale Vintage Tray Tables

Materials

Leather, Wood

Brass Tray Table Maitland Smith
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this page. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A 1980s Maitland Smit...
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1980s Vintage Tray Tables

Materials

Metal, Brass

Maitland-Smith Bar Tray Table
Located in Naples, FL
Excellent condition! Maitland-Smith has been creating exquisite and unique decorative accessories, lighting, elegant mirror and accent furniture. They have carried on a tradition of creating stunning accents for the home of the highest quality. This stunning tray table has toned leather with gold...
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Late 20th Century Philippine British Colonial Tray Tables

Materials

Leather, Wood

Vintage Leather Tray Top Table
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Unigue tray top table with leather surface. The scalloped tray with original base, leather covered hardwood with gilt decoration. Beautifully shaped wit...
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1980s Asian Vintage Tray Tables

Materials

Leather

Henry Clay Papier Mâché Lacquered Tray and Base
Located in Downingtown, PA
Burgundy papier mâché lacquered tray and base, Impressed "Clay" for Henry Clay, circa 1815 The burgundy-ground "papier mâché" lacquered tray...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tray Tables

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Other

Regency Papier Mâché Tray Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Regency papier mâché tray signed by Henry Clay, King St., Covent Garden, circa 1810. Now mounted on custom base. Clay was the most famous of all English papier mâché manufacturers an...
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Early 19th Century Great Britain (UK) Regency Antique Tray Tables

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Wood

Regency Black and Gilt Papier Mache Lacquer Tray with Later Stand, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The Chinoiserie decorated black and gilt rectangular tray stamped on the reverse "Clay, King St. Covent Garden.”.
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tray Tables

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Lacquer

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Mid-20th Century French Colonial Revival Tray Tables

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Moroccan Brass Tray Top Spider Leg Table
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Mid-20th Century Moroccan Moorish Tray Tables

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Traditional Vintage Pine Folding Butlers Tray Side Accent Campaign Table
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Moorish Moroccan Style Folding Wood Brass Tray Drinks Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Beautifully patinated large Moroccan brass tray drink table featuring a carved wood folding base. The wood is hand-carved with a six leg octagonal form with Middle Eastern turned sup...
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20th Century Asian Moorish Tray Tables

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Vintage Indian Brass Tray Table
Located in Forney, TX
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Early 20th Century Indian Tray Tables

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19th Century Papier Mâché Scalloped Tray Table on Faux Bamboo Base
Located in Savannah, GA
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1840s English Early Victorian Antique Tray Tables

Materials

Paper, Faux Bamboo

Fornasetti Tray Table
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Piero Fornasetti butlers tray and supporting metal base. Tray depicts the scene in a large theatre as viewed from the back of the stage, underside of tray with designers label applie...
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Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality Regency Period Oblong Papier Mache Tray With Very Attractive Hand Painted And Gilded Decoration Raised On Elegant Later Faux Bamboo Design Stand.  What better way t...
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19th Century Burgundy Papier Mâché Tray on Stand
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Sublimely Crafted Leather Wrapped Tray Coffee Table by Maitland Smith
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Superb embossed rich brown tooled leather tray coffee table having a scalloped tray removable top with gilded embellishments as well as stunning leather wrapped base.
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1990s American Tray Tables

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Maitland-Smith Hollywood Regency Hand Painted Tray Cocktail Table
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Bamboo and Cane Tray Table with removable Top Maitland Smith Philippines 1970s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Authentic 1970's Bamboo, cane and brass two-tier butler or occasional tray table or nightstand. Made in the 1970s from the Philippines by Maitland Smith. This beautiful bamboo tray t...
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English Chinoiserie Lacquered Tray Table by Henry Clay
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 19th century English chinoiserie tray table constructed from Japanned papier mache. Produced by Henry Clay's Clay of King St. London with makers mark on bottom. Set in a later ebonized wooden stand featuring Asian chow feet legs. The tray fits snugly in its custom Stand and is decorated with gilt flora and fauna scenes. The tray has a beautiful antique lacquer finish...
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Late 20th Century American Late Victorian Tray Tables

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Papier Mâché Tray Signed and Made By "Henry Clay, " c1840
Located in valatie, NY
Papier mâché tray signed and made by Henry Clay, early 19th century. Henry Clay, of Birmingham England, patented a process for treating laminated sheets of paper with linseed oil to produce waterproof panels in 1772. Clay produced items ranging from small caddies, trays, knife boxes and dressing cases to small pieces of japanned furniture. He moved from London to Birmingham establishing workshops at 18 King Street in Covent Garden, where his array of clients included the Royal Family, becoming 'Japanner in Ordinary to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.' This tray was made in the Convent...
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Located in Stamford, CT
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Antique and Vintage Tray Tables

The popularity of antique and vintage tray tables owes mostly to the 1950s, when the first TV dinners made their way into the freezers of American kitchens.

At a time when televisions were increasingly becoming fixtures in the living rooms of most homes in the United States, the tray table was impossibly convenient. With a deft merging of function and style, the table, positioned in front of your sofa or plush armchair, was a place to rest your Swanson-brand TV dinner, a compartmentalized supper issued on a disposable tray that required minimal preparation. The technological advances of the mid-century kitchen included programmable ovens, so TV dinners were quick and easy, particularly when home-cooked meals were out of the question.

When one had finished the last bite of this square meal, which was packed into sections that assumed various geometric shapes in their own partitioned aluminum tray, the tray table could be easily folded up and tucked away until needed again.

Eventually, designers took to exploring iterations of the widely loved tray table that would better suit household needs. Once a simple, foldable furnishing that was confined to use at mealtime, tray tables are now somewhat of a budget-friendly design staple for many households. Today, tray tables are as versatile as ever, and such a wide range has been manufactured over the years that you’re likely to find a good fit no matter what your furniture style preferences might be.

Tray tables are used as side tables, nightstands, a bar tray when your space won’t accommodate that handsome vintage bar cart you’ve been looking for and desks, particularly as many of us are working from home and especially when a modest-sized apartment won’t allow for larger tables.

Tray tables vary in style, shape and size. When looking for a tray table, you should measure accordingly and ensure that wherever it will land in your space there will be room around the table to allow for easy movement.

On 1stDibs, find a collection of antique and vintage tray tables that includes mid-century modern tray tables, Art Deco versions and more.

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