table style - desks
Pier cabinets. A small elegant cabinet, sometimes half round in shape, often with a marble top, intended for use in entrance halls and more particularly drawing rooms, where they stood in the masonry piers between the windows. Similar to a console table and usually surmounted by a pier glass.
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.
11 item(s) found:
A 19th century Australian cedar desk, stamped 'VR' with a low Crown 'MAY 1888',…
A Victorian cedar library table, having a rounded rectangular leather inset top set to either side with three frieze drawers, raised on turned legs, 196 x 77 x 135 cm
A large 19th century Australian full cedar library table, the rectangular top with tooled green leather insert and rounded corners above a plain frieze with three long drawers to either side each with turned handles and one with two worn paper labels,…
A good Victorian cedar library table, the rectangular leather inset top above a band frieze, raised on baluster turned supports, 242 x 77 x106 cm
A Victorian cedar partners desk, the rectangular leather inset top set to either side with a frieze drawer and an arrangement of short drawers, raised on turned legs, 156 x 77 x 120 cm.
A cedar Victorian desk, circa: 1880. Rectangular, green leather inlaid top with bull nose moulded edge over three horizontal full width drawers with secondary drawers to each side supported on turned baluster legs. Height 76 cm. Width 150 cm. Depth 90 cm
A 19th century Australian Queensland white beech and hoop pine station masters desk, the rectangular top with moulded edge above a central arched section with two pairs of short drawers to either side, raised on eight turned tapering legs, 183 cm wide,…
A good 19th century Australian cedar boardroom desk, the rectangular top with tooled leather insert and moulded edge above two pedestals to the front each with four short drawers, raised on plinth bases, the rear with three turned tapering legs,…
Australian colonial cedar partner's desk featuring solid cedar top fitted with two drawers each side, sitting on four turned legs
Cedar desk with turned legs, china castors, four drawers and a new leather inlaid top
Cedar five drawer desk with an inset gold tooled green leather writing surface, and turned and carved legs