Antique Damascus Syrian Inlaid Card, Chess, Backgammon, Games table Early 20th C

This is a stylish antique Swedish Biedermeier Period birch console/card table and overmantle mirror, circa 1880 in date. The table's rectangular birch top is raised on a set of fou...

This is a stunning 19th century antique French Louis XV Revival ormolu and floral marquetry shaped rectangular card table, circa 1870 in date. The shaped top has banded marquetry inlay encompassing an exquisite floral marquetry bouquet of country flowers with musical instruments and a stunning gilt bronze border. The shaped frieze is profusely inlaid throughout with sprays of flowers, leafy stems and musical trophies. It has decorative ormolu cast masque bosses to the sides and is raised on serpentine legs terminating in leafy ormolu sabots. The hinged top opens to reveal a green baize lined interior for playing cards framed...

This is a fabulous antique Victorian mahogany, satinwood and marquetry games table in the manner of Edwards & Roberts, circa 1860 in date. It is made of beautiful flame mahogany and satinwood with elegant satinwood inlaid and penwork floral and foliate decoration of ribbons, bellfowers and garlands.. The shaped hinged top opens to reveal a fabulous green baize lined gaming interior for playing cards, above a frieze fitted with a drawer and decorated by a beautiful classical urn. The table is raised on elegant square tapering legs terminating in spade feet. It is an elegant piece which will enhance a special room in your home. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and polished in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 74 x Width 89 x Depth 48 Dimensions in inches: Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 2 foot, 11 inches x Depth 1 foot, 7 inches Marquetry is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers. The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique. Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs. Edwards & Roberts The firm Edwards & Roberts was one of the best English antique furniture cabinet makers of the second half of the eighteenth century. The company was founded in 1845 and by 1854 was trading as ‘Edwards & Roberts’, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet...

This is a delightful antique Edwardian mahogany and inlaid and crossbanded occasional table, circa 1900. This is a drop-leaf table which has a useful drawer with two brass handles. ...

Vintage Moroccan Moorish Syrian Damascus style Inlaid Card, Chess, Backgammon, Games Table. This profusely inlaid Moorish game table dates from circa 1950, and has multiple geometric...

Vintage leather wrapped table in modernist style that can flip between chess board and backgammon table.

Early 20th Century mahogany and inlaid card table, having a wonderfully inlaid top with decorative floral and boxwood inlay, the four flaps turn over to reveal a green baize lined pl...

Early 20th Century mahogany and inlaid card table, having a wonderfully inlaid top with decorative floral and boxwood inlay, the four flaps turn over to reveal a brown baize lined pl...