Regency Game Tables
REGENCY STYLE
Like France’s Empire style, Regency-style furniture was rooted in neoclassicism; the characteristics of its bedroom furniture, armchairs, dining room tables and other items include clean lines, angular shapes and elegant details.
Dating roughly from the 1790s to 1830s, antique Regency-style furniture gets its name from Prince George of Wales — formally King George IV — who became Prince Regent in 1811 after his father, George III, was declared unfit to rule. England’s Regency style is one of the styles represented in Georgian furniture.
George IV’s arts patronage significantly influenced the development of the Regency style, such as the architectural projects under John Nash, which included the renovation of Buckingham House into the formidable Buckingham Palace with a grand neoclassical facade. Celebrated designers of the period include Thomas Sheraton, Henry Holland and Thomas Hope. Like Nash, Hope instilled his work with classical influences, such as saber-legged chairs based on the ancient Greek klismos. He is credited with introducing the term “interior decoration” to English with the 1807 publishing of Household Furniture and Interior Decoration.
Although more subdued than previous styles like Rococo and Baroque, Regency interiors incorporated copious use of chintz fabrics and wallpaper adorned in chinoiserie-style art. Its furniture featured fine materials and luxurious embellishments. Furniture maker George Bullock, for instance, regularly used detailed wood marquetry and metal ornaments on his pieces.
Archaeological discoveries in Egypt and Greece informed Regency-era details, such as carved scrollwork, sphinxes and palmettes, as well as the shape of furniture. A Roman marble cinerary chest, for example, would be reinterpreted into a wooden cabinet. The Napoleonic Wars also inspired furniture, with martial designs like tented beds and camp-style chairs becoming popular. While the reddish-brown mahogany was prominent in this range of pieces, imported woods like zebrawood and ebony were increasingly in demand.
Find a collection of antique Regency tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Regency
Regency Goncalo Alves Backgammon & Chess Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Fine Quality Early 19th Century, Regency Period, Goncalo Alves Games Table, Having Superbly Figured Drop Flap Top, With Removable, Reversible, Sliding Top Inlaid With Chess Bo...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Other
Antique Regency Mahogany Console Flip Top Game Table
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Regency Mahogany Console Flip Top Game Table
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Mid-19th Century British Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Fine Regency Calamander and Rosewood Games Table
Located in Essex, MA
Very elegant proportions and fine woods make this table exceptional. It's in need of a new leather the current once bleached for a subtle effect.
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Macassar, Rosewood
Gillows Billiard Snooker POOL Table, circa 1820 Free shipping
Located in Radstock, GB
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An extremely elegant mahogany billiard table typical of Gillows craftsmanship circa 1820.
Standing on slim reeded legs w...
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1820s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Slate
Exceptional Regency Bird's Eye Maple Games Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine Regency burr maple and rosewood sofa table, the top with sliding well revealing a backgammon board with chess/checkerboard reversible top, flanked by two drawers and two dr...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Birdseye Maple
Drexel Heritage Regency Style Leather And Mahogany Game Table
By Drexel
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Drexel Heritage Regency Style Leather And Mahogany Game Table
Dimensions : 29" Tall X 36.5" Long X 26" Wide
This game table was made by Drex...
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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Regency Game Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
FiNE THEODORE ALEXANDER BURR WALNUT & LEATHER CHESS BACKGAMMON CARDS GAMES TABLE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite vintage Theodore Alexander burr walnut and brown lea...
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20th Century English Regency Game Tables
Materials
Leather, Walnut
English Regency Tea Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
From the deeply whorled grain to the brass inlay and ebonized accents, this flip-top tea table epitomizes English Regency style. Both back legs swing to support the open top, which o...
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19th Century British Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Leighton Hall Traditional Game Table - Showroom Sample
Located in Suwanee, GA
This is a traditional mahogany game table by Leighton Hall. It is a showroom sample. It less than one year old and in very good condition. It features a distressed leather top, brass corner dice trays...
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2010s Philippine Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Fine Regency Amboyna And Calamander Games Table
Located in Essex, MA
Fine quality with rectangular top with brass edge and reversible top exposing a chessboard. With panel removed you have a leather backgammon playing surface. Raised on Lyre form tres...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Bronze
A Fine Regency Games Table with Lyre Ends
Located in London, GB
An early nineteenth century goncalo alves games table of diminutive, with fine Morocco leather tooled interior, single drawer to frieze for the pieces, all supported on brass hairy p...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of antique regency outstanding quality rosewood card tables
Located in Ipswich, GB
Pair of antique regency outstanding quality rosewood card tables, having outstanding quality rosewood swizzle tops opening to reveal a baize interior, rosewood frieze with outstandin...
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19th Century Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Vintage Regency Gilt Tipped Flip Top Game Table
Located in west palm beach, FL
This exquisite vintage Regency flip-top game table combines elegance with versatility. Featuring a sleek black lacquer finish with refined gilt accents, this piece boasts a sophistic...
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Mid-20th Century American Regency Game Tables
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Pair Of Regency Rosewood And Boxwood Inlaid Games Tables
Located in Essex, MA
Each with rectangular hinged tops with canted corners . The top inlaid with laurel leaf border.Tops opening to expose a green felt playing surface Conforming frieze with central grif...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair Of Regency Calamander And Brass Inlaid Games Tables
Located in Essex, MA
Each with a hinged top with crossbanded edge with brass star inlays. Green felt lined playing surface, conforming frieze, ebonized spindle supports joining four saber legs with brass...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair English Regency Mahogany Card Tables / Tea Table, 19th Century
Located in Charleston, SC
This Regal pair of English Regency Mahogany Card Tables / Tea Tables with Rosewood Crossbanding are made in the first quarter of the 19th Century. The English NeoClassical Tea Table...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Baize, Rosewood, Mahogany
Fine Regency Flame Mahogany Lyre Base Side Table Games Table
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A fine Regency flame mahogany Lyre style based side table games table in a Regency style. When closed it makes a perfect side table/breakfast or console, when open it is a square tab...
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Mid-19th Century American Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
English Regency Style Rosewood Marble Inlaid Game Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency style (19th Century) rosewood and gilt trimmed pedestal base game table with round marble inlaid chess / checkerboard top.
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19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
English Regency Mahogany Chess/Checkers Game Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency mahogany and inlaid brass game table on green upholstered base with removable chess / checkerboard top over a backgammon interior.
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19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Rare Early 19th Century Regency Combination Games or Work Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A rare, stunning quality early 19th Century Regency fruitwood combination games or work table, inlaid and brass mounted throughout. The moulded central section with inlaid checkerboa...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Regency Mahogany Tea Table
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
Sn4855 fine quality Regency mahogany fold over tea table, having stunning figured mahogany top with string inlays which folds over to reveal polished figured mahogany surface, above ...
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1820s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
English Regency Satinwood Chess/Checkers Game Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency (circa 1925) brass-mounted satinwood tripod game table with octagonal specimen marble inlaid chess / checkerboard top above 3 scroll legs.
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19th Century British Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
19th Century English Regency Backgammon/ Chess Table
Located in Essex, MA
19th century English Regency games table, with fold-over inlaid top. Inlaid brass and walnut raised star decorations, and inlaid banding throughout, as...
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1820s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Wood
Exceptional Russian Parquetry Inlaid Chess Table with Gilt Mounts. Great color.
Located in Buchanan, MI
An exceptional Russian parquetry inlaid chess table with gilt mounts. Great scale and proportions. Nice old patina. We have other games tables as...
Category
19th Century Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
English Regency Figured Kingswood and Ebony Inlaid Hinged Game Table, C. 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
English Regency figured kings wood hinged game table with interior baize, ebony string inlays, double supporting gate legs, and terminating on the original cast brass reeded casters,...
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1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of English Regency Mahogany and Cross Banded Kingwood Card Tables, C. 1815
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of English Regency mahogany card tables with carved reeded molded edge, cross banded Kingwood skirt, turned bulbous ringed pedestal, a...
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1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Fine Regency Rosewood and Bronze Mounted Writing / Games Table
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular with bronze gallery and ratcheted writing surface over a frieze containing drawers and a game board, raised on a trestle base with saber legs mounted with leaf form mounts.
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Wood
English Regency Mahogany and Marble Game Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
Regency period mahogany game / center table with inset Pietra Dura (stone specimen) marble chess board top. Having two drawers on either side, and a boldly carved base ending with pa...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Marble
Regency Brass Inlaid Games Table
Located in Stamford, CT
A Regency rosewood and calamander brass inlaid ormolu-mounted games table with patented "lazy tongs" action in the manner of William Wilkinson and George Oakley and bearing Russian d...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
ANTiQUE REGENCY CIRCA 1810-1820 GILT BRASS & HARDWOOD CHESSBOARD CHESS TABLE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely, restored Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 tilt top Chessboard Chess table with Rosewood Frame an...
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1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of Regency Mahogany Games Tables
Located in Essex, MA
Each with hinged crossbanded top over a frieze with central tablet. Top flips open to a green baize playing surface. The top swivels enabling the top to flip for a card table size su...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Regency Smith and Watson Game Table
Located in west palm beach, FL
Enhance your dining space with our American-style Vintage Boho Smith and Watson game table. Showcasing exquisite turned wood craftsmanship and bohemian elegance, this table seamlessl...
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Mid-20th Century American Regency Game Tables
Materials
Wood
Regency Rosewood Games Table, Brass Inlay, English, circa 1820
Located in London, GB
Circa 1820, Regency brass mounted and inlaid rosewood games table. The central section with reversible games top revealing a fitted interior. It has a central drawer with foliate brass inlay.
This is a fine example of a Regency rosewood brass inlaid occasional table with chess board...
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1820s British Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
FINE ANTIQUE SHERATON BURR & BURL WALNUT CARD GAMES TABLE WITH SATINWOOD DETAiL
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very fine, restored Sheraton card games table in Burl & Burr Walnut with Satinwood detailing
This piece has been fully restored by my French...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Hardwood, Satinwood, Walnut
English Regency Penwork Games Table
Located in Stamford, CT
Penwork games table with pedestal on four legs and wheeled feet, English, circa 1810.
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Wood
Leighton Hall Traditional Mahogany Game Table - Showroom Sample
Located in Suwanee, GA
This is a unique mahogany game/occasional table by Leighton Hall. It is a showroom sample. It is less than one year old and in very good condition. It features a mildly distressed ...
Category
2010s Philippine Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Important Regency Period Library Table Made After Designs by Thomas Hope
By Thomas Hope
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Important Regency Period Library Table Made After Designs by Thomas Hope and Identical to a Pair of Tables at Beechwood Park and Another Potentially From Malahide in Ireland
A Regency oak drum...
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1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Oak
Fully Restored Extending Antique Regency Sofa Table Inc Chess Board & Backgammon
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely, fully restored Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 extending sofa table with removable top, Chess board and...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Hardwood
Regency-Period Rosewood Card Tables
Located in New Orleans, LA
These exceptional Regency card tables were designed with dual purposes in mind. Crafted of rosewood, the tables serve as attractive console tables when closed. When opened, the table...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Regency Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Card Table
Located in Essex, MA
Wonderful Period rosewood English Regency flip top card or games table. Brass inlay with carved Classical elements in the style of Thomas Hope.
Opens and turns to reveal a 36" squ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Regency Hardwood Turn over Top Card Table on Stunning Paw Feet & Casters
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Regency hardwood 19th century card table.
Twist and lift the top to reveal a blue lined round surface. The table is standing on be...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Hardwood
Fine Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Games Tables, Signed Phenes & Williamson
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine pair of English Regency rosewood game tables. Felt gaming surface. Signed Phenes and Williamson London.
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Late Regency Mahogany Games Table
Located in Essex, MA
Small table with a hinged lid opening to game boards, trestle base and scroll feet. Can be used as an end table.
Category
1820s Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Boxwood, Mahogany
19th Century English Regency Flip Top Chessboard Games Table
Located in Forney, TX
A fine quality, exquisitely handcrafted, antique English games / sewing table finished in Regency taste. Born during the third quarter of the 19th century, featuring stunning burl wa...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Leather, Satinwood, Walnut
Antique Elegant Figured Wood Lyre Base Flip Top Games Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A charming flip top table with a scalloped top with half columns and a carved beaded front and side edges. Raised on an elegant lyre form support mounted on a shaped base with carved...
Category
19th Century Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Metal
Important Regency Sofa Table by George Smith, Gillows London, Exotic Woods
By George Smith
Located in Dallas, TX
A regency brass inlaid and gilt bronze mounted exotic wood sofa table
Gillows, designed by George Smith, circa 1810
Measures: Height 28 3/4in (73cm); width closed 39in (99.1cm); width open 61 1/2in (156.2cm); depth 31 3/4in (80.6cm)
Footnotes:
Literature
Smith, George. A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Brass
Regency Period Rosewood Sofa Games Table Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency period rosewood sofa games table attributed to Gillows of Lancaster; the top with rounded ends covered in the original distressed leather, with a central reversible chess board which can be removed to display a backgammon board beneath, the frieze with a dummy drawer retaining its original gilded handles and decorated with ormolu mounts; having elegant lyre ends raised on outswept legs terminating in acanthus cap castors. English, circa 1815.
Provenance: Hermione Countess of Ranfurly
The Countess of Ranfurly was the author of ‘To War with Whitaker’ her memoirs of life in Cairo with Eisenhower. Her husband was the 6th Earl of Ranfurly and the Governor General of Bahamas between 1953 and 1956.
Footnote: The design for a rosewood sofa table in the sketch book of 13 April 1813, made for John Gladstone of Liverpool, father of the future Prime Minister, is published in Susan E Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008 Vol I, p.265, pl. 270. When the firm made the ‘sofa backgammon table, to suit the above’ (p267, pls 272 and 273) no expense was spared. With the extra tooled morocco...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Specimen Games Table Attributed to Gillows
Located in New Orleans, LA
This magnificent games table incorporates some of the rarest English marbles, hardstones and fossil specimens, including Derbyshire Blue John. The scarcity of these coveted stones makes an inlaid circular piece of this size a truly exceptional and unique masterpiece. The tabletop, with its fabulous specimens surrounding an Ashford marble chessboard...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Stone
19th Century English Game Table
Located in Southampton, NY
19th century late Regency English game table.
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19th Century British Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Brown Leather Gold Leaf Side End Table Extending Top Great Games Table
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Bevan Funnell vintage Mahogany side table with extending brown leather top and single drawer...
Category
20th Century English Regency Game Tables
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Large Extending Occasional Games Table in Burr Walnut Lion Paw Castors + Drawers
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely large Bevan Funnell vintage burr walnut side table with extending top and twin drawers
A very good looking and versatile piece, the...
Category
20th Century English Regency Game Tables
Materials
Walnut
Regency Mahogany Games Table with Satinwood Inlay
Located in Kastrup, DK
Elegant Regency-period games table from England, circa 1810-1815.
Crafted from mahogany, the apron is decorated with fine line inlay in satinwood and maple, while the tapered legs a...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Felt, Mahogany, Maple, Satinwood
Antique console England around 1820 Pyramid mahogany
Located in Würzburg, DE
✓ Wonderful ribbon inlays
✓ English piece of jewelry
✓ Elegant and stylish
Dimensions:
W: 91cm H: 75cm D: 45cm
Table unfolded: 90cm
Clear height: 61cm
Article: Antique game table, ...
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Early 19th Century Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Rosewood Games Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Superb Quality Regency Period Rosewood And Brass games table, With Chess Board Inlaid, Reversible, Removable Top Enclosing Backgammon Board, Flanked By Curved Ends With Original Br...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Regency rosewood and penwork games / work table
Located in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Regency rosewood and penwork games / work table
The rounded rectangular top with hinged ends and gilt pierced brass galleries, with hinged central lid inlaid with a boxwood and ebony...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
A fine English Regency calamander game table
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century English Regency calamander wood gaming table . Felt interior
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of English Regency Period Rosewood Game Tables
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
A pair of English rosewood game card tables. The curved front corners include both the folding top and the apron to make a seamless band. The table top is made to fold open and slide...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Rosewood
English Mahogany Marquetry Drop Leaf Side Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Petite, English Regency, drop-leaf, mahogany side table with symmetrical marquetry, boxwood inlay work and beautifully curved saber legs. The table extends from 7.5 - 26 inches deep ...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Game Tables
Materials
Boxwood, Mahogany
Regency game tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Regency game tables for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage game tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, rosewood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency game tables made in a specific country, there are Europe, United Kingdom, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original game tables, popular names associated with this style include Bevan Funnell Ltd., Gillows of Lancaster & London, B&S, Birmingham, and George Smith. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for game tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $971 and tops out at $63,929 while the average work can sell for $6,800.