card - tables
Card tables. Also known as 'gaming tables'. From the early 18th century there have been a wide variety of styles and designs. The playing tops are usually covered with cloth or green baize. Queen Anne and early Georgian examples, with simple cabriole legs, often had recesses for gambling chips. Fold-over card tables, either rectangular or circular were introduced during the mid-18th century, and continued to be made until this century. In some versions, the table legs opened by a concertina or gateleg action to provide support for the top. Other tables, dating from the early 19th century, had a swivel top that rested when opened on the pedestal block or a box-like construction to contain the cards. Collectors will have to rely on stylistic and other evidence to judge the age of card tables, whether they be the elegant half-round tables on tapered and strung legs of the Neoclassical style, the early Victorian pedestal card tables, or the later 19th century card tables frequently veneered in burr walnut in the Rococo revival manner. The small, square tables with fold-up legs and baize or leather tops are a 20th century innovation.
9 item(s) found:
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 tilt-top card table, mixed timber inlay. Octagonal form on tripod base. Height 62 cm. Diameter 62 cm.
A Regency mahogany and ebony lined card table, the fold over rectangular top with canted corners on a turned support and reeded downswept legs. Width 91 cm. Depth 45 cm . Height 75 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.…
A cedar Crossbaned fold over card table on fluted column, circa 1840. Height 74 cm. Width 92 cm D: 90 cm
A fine George II mahogany concertina action card table with shaped rectangular figured fold-over top, the interior with fitted baize surface, counter wells and candle stands, ribbon and flower head carved edge above a plain frieze,…
A fine quality Tasmanian Blackwood fold-over card table, Australian, 76 x 92x 47 cm
A unique action flip top Arts & Crafts blackwood card table