1850s Tray Tables

We delight to offer for sale an early Victorian ebonized and papier-mâché tip-top games table, the top inlaid with a mother-of-pearl chessboard, this table it was made by Jennens and...

This early twentieth century French tole tray table is painted yellow with black detailing. Its two removable trays feature central lyre motifs and are detailed with a leaf motif. Ea...

3-480 Mughal Empire antique brass tray with later date carved wooden folding stand. Brass top is decorated with repousse foliate and floral motif. Tray...

A small altar tray, hand-crafted in teak with mother-of-pearl inlays. China, late 19th Century. Rustic teak in a dark brown/red semi-gloss finish. Four stretchers connect the turn...

This fine piece has been expertly made from papier mâché inlaid with sections of mother-of-pearl and extensively polychromed to create an interesting whole. The tables main decorativ...

A beautiful English tray table or tray on stand from the Aesthetic Movement Period, featuring a rectangular tray of papier mache with a recessed center showing a decorative Chinoiser...

This is a vintage butler's serving table. An English, mahogany afternoon tea tray on stand in Georgian revival taste, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930. Charming Art Deco se...

Eye-catching woven rattan end table or drinks table with removable tray top. France, 1940s-1950s. This elephant shaped end table stand was beautifully constructed in hand braided rat...

A Good Quality And Unusually Small Georgian Mahogany Butlers Tray, Of Diminutive Proportion, Having Elegant Shaped Sides With Pierced Carrying Handles And Well Figured Top, Housed On Later Square Chamfered Leg Mahogany Stand. During the 18th and 19th centuries a coffee table was not what we regard as a coffee table in the 21st century. Coffee tables back then were always full height, effectively side tables. The modern, low, coffee table is really something which began to be seen during the early 20th century onwards. Based on the above there is a variety of different methods to incorporate a coffee table into an interior for people who wish to furnish their properties with genuine antique furniture, whilst still allowing for the practicalities and function which is required in modern times. Therefore it is now incredibly common to find 18th and 19th century trays of varying shape, size and design utilised as coffee tables. As with all the others that we have seen this particular tray has been fitted onto a low, practical and sturdy stand constructed from old antique wood. It’s worth noting that generally this means an old broken table...

Small and elegant tray table with brass crossed legs and marble top in light beige. France, circa 1930.

Georgian Opulence: Henry Clay's Lacquered Papier-mâché Tray on Faux Bamboo Stand This striking piece is a Burgundy-Ground Lacquered Papier-mâché Tray on a Faux Bamboo Stand, dating ...

This exceptional tray table was hand crafted by the renowned B. Walton Company, premier English craftsmen of paper-mâché. The sizable green tray has beautifully gilt and scalloped ri...