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.

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 more...

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A Chinese Chippendale mahogany tea or card table, English, 18th…

18th Century Chinese Chippendale Mahogany Tea/Card Table

A Chinese Chippendale mahogany tea or card table, English, 18th century, 91 cm, wide 74 cm, high 46 cm, deep

A French boulle flip top games table, circa 1890, the table…

French Boulle Flip Top Games Table (9 words)

A French boulle flip top games table, circa 1890, the table inlaid with brass and tortoise shell overall. The top serpentine in shape with a swiveling flip top, raised above four serpentine legs each mounted with female ormolu caryatids, 77 cm high, 86 cm…

An outstanding Louis XV style French kingwood card table, with…

Louis XV Style Kingwood Card Table with Ormolu Decoration

An outstanding Louis XV style French kingwood card table, with a parquetry top, satinwood banding, the frieze with ormolu swags and conforming parquetry decoration on cabriole legs terminating in ormolu sabots, 74 cm high, 90.5 cm wide, 45m deep

George III inlaid demi lune mahogany card table, on tapering…

George III Mahogany Card Table

George III inlaid demi lune mahogany card table, on tapering legs. 94 cm wide, 74 cm high. Purchased Stanley Lipscombe Antiques, Sydney 1965.

A Queen Anne rosewood and walnut games table, early 18th…

Queen Anne Games Table with Bat Form Top

A Queen Anne rosewood and walnut games table, early 18th century, with a bat form quarter veneered fold-over top with herringbone feather banding, opening to a baize surface with candle stands and guinea wells, raised on tapering cabriole legs and pad…

A fine French boulle fold-over card table, profusely inlaid…

A fine French boulle fold-over card table, profusely inlaid with scroll brass floral marquetry on red tortoiseshell ground and adorned with handsome ormolu mounts, circa 1870, 80 cm high, 90 cm wide, 45 cm (extends to 89 cm) deep

Card table mid 19th century Australian, cedar circa 1855-60,…

Mid 19th Century Australian Cedar Card Table

Card table mid 19th century Australian, cedar circa 1855-60, fold over swivel top, tapering turned column, and quatrefoil base, (missing concealed castors), height 74 cm, length 90 cm, depth 44.5 cm

Late Georgian Chinoiserie black and gilt lacquered fold-over…

Georgian Chinoiserie Games Table with Sabre Legs

Late Georgian Chinoiserie black and gilt lacquered fold-over games table the sabre legs terminating with brass paw sabots and castors, 19th century

A pair of late Regency breakfast and games tables, in mahogany…

Regency Mahogany Breakfast & Games Tables

A pair of late Regency breakfast and games tables, in mahogany and mahogany veneers with ebony Grecian motif stringing. On an elaborately turned pedestal with quadraform base and handsome lion's paw feet. English circa 1825. 77 x 102 x 45 cm

An early cedar fold-over rope-twist carved leg card- table,…

An early cedar fold-over rope-twist carved leg card- table, Australian circa 1835. See Australian furniture, 'A Pictorial History' [Fahy and Simpson] page 383, plate 420 for a similar example. Provenance: Swan, Murray and Hain, Hunter Valley NSW 2002 lot…

A superb quality English mahogany card table, circa 1845.…

Mahogany Card Table with Pen Work and Parquetry Design

A superb quality English mahogany card table, circa 1845. Featuring detailed pen work panels and delicate parquetry. 78 cm high, 91 cm diameter

A Sheraton mahogany card table. Circa 1810. Rectangular form…

Sheraton Mahogany Card Table, Circa 1810

A Sheraton mahogany card table. Circa 1810. Rectangular form with satinwood banding and canted corners with a hinged top enclosing a beige interior on ring turned legs. Provenance: William Johnson, Kent Antique, High Street, Armadale. 70 cm high, 92 cm…

A French kingwood envelope card table by Paul Sormani…

Louis XV Style Kingwood Envelope Card Table by Paul Sormani

A French kingwood envelope card table by Paul Sormani (1817-1877), of Louis XV design, the swivel top opening to reveal a baize lined plain surface above a shaped apron with quarter veneered panels and ormolu rocaille mounts and chutes to the slender…

A 19th century Boulle manner cut brass inlaid fold over card…

Boulle-style brass inlaid card table with cabriole legs

A 19th century Boulle manner cut brass inlaid fold over card table serpentine rectangular top, with inlaid panels to the top, sides and reverse, green baize interior, losses and lifting to inlay in places, cabriole legs, 88 x 76.5 x 44 cm

Anton Seuffert circular card table, the top with geometric…

Anton Seuffert Inlaid Circular Card Table

Anton Seuffert circular card table, the top with geometric inlays in various New Zealand native timbers on baluster shaped acanthus leaf column and downswept circular platform base with scroll feet, original paper label to the underside, 60 cm dia.

Rare mid 19th century Killarney yew and arbutus marquetry games…

Killarney Marquetry Games Table with Muckross Abbey Inlay

Rare mid 19th century Killarney yew and arbutus marquetry games table, with chequer and feather inlay, the rectangular swivel hinged top inlaid with an oval depicting Muckross Abbey, encompassed by bracken, thistles and other foliage, enclosing chess,…

A fine George III painted satinwood card table, Irish, circa…

George III Satinwood Card Table, Irish, 1790

A fine George III painted satinwood card table, Irish, circa 1790 with Irish removalist's paper label beneath. 73 cm high, 90 cm wide, 45 cm deep. Provenance: John Dunn Antiques, Melbourne

An Australian cedar card table, by Andrew Lenehan, circa 1845,…

Australian Cedar Card Table, Andrew Lenehan, Circa 1845

An Australian cedar card table, by Andrew Lenehan, circa 1845, the rectangular hinged top enclosing a green baize, above a plain frieze, supported on a faceted bulbous column with stylised floral collar above a circular platform, raise on three paw feet…

A fine quality gilt bronze and mother of pearl inlaid card…

Gilt Bronze Mother of Pearl Card Table, French 1850

A fine quality gilt bronze and mother of pearl inlaid card table, French, circa 1850, with paper trade label Lob 52-54 Rue de la Roquette, Paris. 76 cm high, 92 cm wide and 46 cm deep

Rare pair of fine antique Regency brass inlaid fold over card…

Regency Brass Inlaid Card Tables (Pair)

Rare pair of fine antique Regency brass inlaid fold over card tables (2)

A superb Regency period rosewood card table, with fine brass…

Regency Rosewood Card Table with Brass Inlays

A superb Regency period rosewood card table, with fine brass inlays in neoclassical motifs. The stylised bow-shaped pedestal set on a quadraform base with elegant brass capped sabre legs. English circa 1805. 74.5 x 89 x 45 cm

A fine marquetry inlaid walnut games table, 19th century, the…

19th Century Marquetry Walnut Games Table

A fine marquetry inlaid walnut games table, 19th century, the ornately inlaid circular chequer-board parquetry specimen timber top above an acanthus carved baluster stem, raised on a conforming platform base with three scroll feet, 73 cm high, 61 cm…

A superb Anton Seuffert geometric pattern card table of various…

Anton Seuffert Inlaid Geometric Pattern Card Table

A superb Anton Seuffert geometric pattern card table of various New Zealand inlaid timbers. The lower column carved by Anton Teutenberg in floral relief. Illustrated in Brian Peets, The Seuffert Legacy. Height 73 cm. Depth 61 cm. Provenance: Ruth Simon…

Card table: impressive early cedar table, Sydney c1835. The…

Early Cedar Card Table, Sydney c1835

Card table: impressive early cedar table, Sydney c1835. The design of this table can be traced to a combination of 2 tables from 'King's Cabinet Work (1829)' pattern book. Showing a superior standard of craftmanship this table was made by one of Sydney's…

A superb Regency sofa table, of Pembroke type in fine…

Regency Sofa Table with Neoclassical Motifs and Gilt Bronze

A superb Regency sofa table, of Pembroke type in fine calamander and rosewood veneer over mahogany. The top is inlaid with a gilt brass scrolling acanthus leaf border and stringing, and mounted with gilt bronze borders. The four bow shaped legs, also…

A magnificent Anton Seuffert parquetry floral pattern card…

Magnificent Seuffert Parquetry Floral Pattern Card Table

A magnificent Anton Seuffert parquetry floral pattern card table. This table represents one of the more complex and free flowing of the Seuffert 'Standard patterns', the fern & Clematis design, similar to a table presented to Countess Aberdeen in 1887.…