1810s Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables

American Rustic Tramp Art style game table with green & red painted top supported with a pedestal base on a round platform (32 chess pieces)(signed 1994 PAUL CUNNINGHAM)

A beautiful Papier-Mache tilt top occasional table, hand-painted with flowers and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Gilt decoration has faded gently with age. Please note - due to the mo...

Rare design and great looking, handcrafted wooden chess table with unique natural patterns and colors. This midcentury era chess table (with built-in lamp in the base) has some of the most beautiful, natural colors ever. We don't know what type of Brasilian nutwood this table is made of, but this shape and these great colors will combine beautifully with all kinds of styles and materials. The design, the warm colors and especially the wonderful tree knot pattern in this all-handcrafted table are an absolute joy to look at. And with the light switched on, only the cores of the tree knots turn into a beautiful, deep red and almost purple color. We tried to shoot some photos with the light in the base of this table switched on, but the result is not at all what it looks like in real life (so much better looking than in our photos). We have sold a few table lamps of this 'knotted wood', but we have never seen a chess table of this amazing material. Apart from a few minor imperfections this very stylish chess...

A fine antique American late Federal/Empire carved mahogany fold-over tea/games/card table, circa 1830. The table having a fold-over & swivel top, below is a carved and gadrooned ap...

Elegant American Empire style game table, circa 1835. This versatile piece showcases classic design with a practical function. The swivel top, supported by a graceful cylinder column...

An exquisite circa 1840 Japanese export tilt-top table or stand of Nagasaki manufacture having allover abalone inlay in black lacquer, the top with with male and female 'Japanese gre...

A stunning antique English Victorian papier mâché flip-top parlor table in the manner of Jennens and Bettridge (1816–1870) Born in the mid-19th century, Chinoiserie taste, profusely decorated including hand painted polychrome floral decoration, ebonized, lacquered, parcel gilt, abalone, mother of pearl inlays, serpentine top with scalloped molded edge, tripod pedestal base with spiral turned barley twist standard, resting on three gracefully curved scroll legs. Dimensions: (approx) 29" High, 22" Wide, 23" Deep Provenance / Acquisition: John Phifer Marrs collection. Important auction house J. Garrett Auctioneers, Dallas, Texas, May 2021 catalog, presented a special curated collection from John Phifer Marrs, premier Southern interior designer known for an elegant, fresh and inviting design method, often called The New Southern Style...

Swedish neoclassical mahogany console table that flips open to become a card table. If you take the top completely off it is a backgammon game inside. Interesting legs, clean and han...

A 19th century English tilt-top game checkerboard or card table. This single pedestal flip top game table sits on a tri pod base and is fu...

A 19th Century French Louis Philippe style oval wine tasting, or tilt-top table with turned legs and stretcher. Made of solid walnut with nice grain and character. Waxed finish. The...

19th century tilt-top breakfast table from England. The table is made from mahogany and has a wonderful rosewood band around the top over a central turned column and supported on fou...

The square hinged handkerchief top rotating open to reveal a felt interior, the shaped frieze with one drawer, the whole with ormolu-mounts. Closed...