games - tables
Games table. A small table equipped with an inlaid chess board and sometimes a backgammon board. They are often fitted with drawers to hold games pieces, pencils, score sheets and so on. The tops of these tables are sometimes reversible, sometimes opening to reveal the chess board beneath. Examples dating from the 18th century are known, but most still available are of Victorian origin. Many Australian games tables have survived, with the chess board made of stained woods or sometimes consisting of many different inlaid native timbers. Card tables are a variant of the games table.
9 item(s) found:
A specimen wood parquetry and faux lacquer chess board table Australian, 19th century. 64 x 49 x 49 cm
A small specimen wood games table, circa 1920 32 x 75 cm Australian 32 cm square, 75 cm high. Provenance: private collection, NSW
A Levantine games table, featuring backgammon and baize, inlaid in camphor, ebony, mother-of-pearl and cedar of Lebanon, some weathering, 60 cm wide, 32 cm deep, 58 cm high
A Colonial New Zealand specimen timbers games occasional table the shaped top with figured timber geometric inlay of honeyed hues, enclosing a central games board, the alternating squares of rewarewa veneer,…
An Australian cedar games / work table, circa 1835, the square top with a specimen wood chess board above a single drawer with ebony handles and locking pin for the work basket below, raised on a turned column and four acanthus leaf carved scrolled legs,…
A George II yew wood, casuarina and amboyna games table, the rectangular hinged top opening to reveal an inlaid chess board on tapering square legs;. Width 52 cm. Depth 49 cm . Height 72 cm
An Australian Arts & Crafts style blackwood foldover games table stamped Beard Watson Ltd, Sydney, circa 1920, the circular top with baize to one side, raised on stylised scroll supports, lion's paw feet, xylonite label to base. Diameter 85 cm.…
Winks & Hall card table c.1885 This exceptional card or games table is attributed to the substantial cabinetmaking firm Winks & Hall who commenced trade c.1863 and continued through to the 1930's in their Shortland Street premises.…
Cedar colonial games table with four slide drawers and cross banded top around a replacement fabric, sitting on a drum skirt with the four drawers with original brass fittings on top of four beautifully carved legs,…