Manhattan - Card Tables and Tea Tables

18th century Georgian mahogany triple top games table with ebony and satinwood inlay. Circa 1740.

Vintage Mid Century Alvar Aalto Tea Trolley 900 made in the 1970's at Artek, Finland. Black ceramic tiles and basket of woven rattan cane. ...

Nordic birch veneer adorns this center table. An open compartment supported by architectural columns is fully finished as well and is meant to allow light to pass through the space. ...

A higher table to be used for enjoying coffee or sherry and for displaying collectables. A beautiful veneered surface sits atop a turned base and carved legs that are solid birchwood...

Modernist steel round black glass table, France, 1930s Purchased with Jacques Adnet Chairs and attributed to him, but not documented. Beautiful st...

Designed by Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler, the bar cart is made of Rosewood, Glass, and Steel. Composed of three removable serving trays and steel casters for Forma S/A Móveis e Obj...

An elegant side table exemplifying the Scandinavian interpretation of Art Nouveau, with an circular cut lower shelf, which is mounted on slim, stiletto legs.  

Two tier circular glass coffee table with Lucite supports.

RECORDED: cf. Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio, ed., Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (Syracuse University Press, Utica, New York, 1999), pp. 85, 86, 87 illus. the Munson-Williams-Proctor tables // cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19th Century America–Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (1970), exhib. cat., [n.p.] no.133 This table is identical to a pair of card tables bearing the stenciled label of Charles A. Baudouine of 335 Broadway, New York, which were acquired by James and Helen Munson Williams of Utica, New York, in May 1852 for their home, Fountain Elms, which is where they remain today as part of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute collection. The Williams tables were billed as “1 Rosewood Multiform Table” at $160 for the pair, and they were indeed “multiform” in that they could be used separately and folded as a pair of console tables, opened as a pair of card tables, or joined together as a center table. The present table varies essentially in the fact that it does not include the mechanism that would have allowed it to be attached to another to form a center table. Of French descent, Baudouine was born in New York in 1808. He made his debut as a cabinetmaker in the New York directory of 1829/30, where he is listed at 508 Pearl Street. By 1839/40 he relocated to Broadway, where he remained in business at various addresses until about 1854. A sense of the scale of Baudouine’s operation is given by German immigrant cabinetmaker Ernest Hagen...

A fabulous Louis XVI style 19th century French ormolu-mounted mahogany two-tier tea table, attributed to Paul Sormani. The ovoid upper tier with origi...