Inlay Game Tables

Fine pair of George III serpentine-fronted satinwood and tulipwood marquetry games tables The floral marquetry of later date. The hinged tops opening to a leather-lined gaming surfa...

Console in Boulle marquetry with brass background with scrolls, arabesques and flowers, convertible into a game table. The console is richly decorated with gilded bronzes. The top is...

A fine neoclassical Russian fruitwood marquetry and parquetry games table from the late 18th century, probably Saint Petersburg. With a rectangular rotating and folding top, decorate...

A rare and highly important Russian imperial period gilt-bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid, triple turn-over games table. St. Petersburg, circa 1820. This rare and elegant marquetry games table, or Lomberian, is representative of the golden age of Russian craftsmanship of the early nineteenth century. The table, in keeping with courtly pursuits of the day, has a triple turn-over top, opening successively to reveal a chess board and a leather playing surface for cards. The upper surface is veneered with exceptional marquetry inlay in stained sycamore, holly, boxwood, and Russian native timbers. It is centred by an oval roundel with a decorative and highly unusual still-life tableau of playing cards and dice. The distinctive form of the decorative marquetry inlay and the use of rich indigenous timbers confirm the Russian origin of this table. The flowering tendrils being a distinctive feature of the work of a small group of St Petersburg cabinet makers such as Nikifor Vasilyev and Matvei Veretennikov. Both of these master cabinet makers were serfs, Veretennikov belonging to Count Alexander Vasilievich Soltikov and Vassilyev belonging to the Sheremetev estate. It is interesting to note, that of the small number of known masterpieces by these makers, two of them are elaborately inlaid gaming tables, confirming its importance as a furniture type amongst the Upper Classes of the period. A late 18th century marquetry...

A fine pair of Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted marquetry inlaid card tables. French, circa 1880. Each table has a serpentine-shaped fold over top finely inlaid with marquetry de...

A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry inlaid envelope card table. French, circa 1890. This fine card table has a swivel top, with four 'envelope' panels inlaid with m...

A wonderful late 19th century gilt bronze mounted parquetry envelope game table by François Linke François Linke – Index no. 523 The revolving top wi...

A fine pair of gilt-bronze mounted Marquetry inlaid card tables with Sèvres-style porcelain plaques. English, circa 1870. Each table has a rec...