Pennsylvania - Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables

ENGLISH GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY PIE-CRUST TILT-TOP TABLE With a very finely and expressively carved baluster, over tripodal anthemion carved legs terminating in ball-and-claw feet...

A French vintage cast iron and white marble bakers table. The table features a decorative Fleur de Lis motif and is branded by maker in top rail. Paris, late 19th C. Part of motif mi...

Elegant French style three tier patisserie stand with beveled glass. Perfect for serving desserts, the stand is adorned with graceful, silvered ornamental scrolling throughout. It ...

Very handsome breakfast table, 19th c., England. The oval top veneered with highly figured book matched burlwood, with burr elm banding, over four inlaid turned supports, raised on four down-swept legs applied with carved floral bosses on brass casters. Shipping label showing Diamond Baratta...

American Industrial Drafting table that adjusts and moves into multiple positions! Flat surface can go from 37" up to 48" high! Surface can t...

An unusual and large fruitwood tilt-top wine tasting table with "racetrack" oval top, French, circa 1850. Tables such as these were used in wine cellars for impromptu entertaining. S...

A very nice George III period mahogany tea table with a circular tilt-top over a ring-turned vasiform baluster pedestal raised on cabriole legs terminating in spade feet over integra...

Vintage English Georgian Chippendale mahogany pie crust tilt-top tea table. Item features pie crust carved edge, carved pedestal base, solid wood construction, beautiful wood grain, ...

A very fine example remaining in excellent original condition, the table form is closely associated with a small grouping of furniture from the coastal North Carolina, particularly Edenton. The work center is distinct for its use of a dovetailed box instead of a birdcage with pillars as the rotating and tilting functionary, a technique founded in British furniture but most often employed in American furniture of coastal North Carolina, specifically Chowan County. Further related are the uses of a large turned boss rather than the more typical tri-form iron bracket beneath the pedestal to secure the dovetailed legs to the base as well as the scrolled volute leg returns at the juncture of the leg and pedestal. This is only hinted at in the present example, the soft roundel left unembellished as a simple scroll along the interior edge of each leg. Like most of the tables identified from this work center, the top is a thick and broad beautifully grained solid plank of mahogany, affixed to the dovetailed mahogany box on a pair of blunt ended cleats with original screws flanking projecting dowels from the box. The pedestal is striking for its compressed urn and tight ring turnings beneath an elongated shaft. The legs have a soft and highly effective profile, the cabriole flowing into a rounded foot over thin pads of the solid. The table is preserved in outstanding condition retaining its original iron tombstone latch and brass catch with its original hand filed steel screws, likewise with original unmoved cleats and most original screws. The large turned boss remains affixed with its original iron sprig nails. It remains a powerful presentation piece for the serious collector of American furniture of the period. Materials: All primary and secondary surfaces mahogany Literature and notes: Southern...

A very fine and precisely crafted table of elegant thin proportions, the highly figured mahogany is dense and beautiful, each leaf hanging over thumb joints on original iron hinges. ...

An early French wine tasting table in bleached cherry, Directoire Period circa 1800.

A tilt-top wine tasting table in stained beech with a circular top and a trestle base, the top secured by a revolving harp shaped support, circa 1860, French.