Georgian or Regency Twin Pillar Antique Dining Table

A rare and most unusual late George III pair of mahogany console tables which convert into a twin pillar dining table, each of the two ...

This large mahogany imperial action dining table has rounded ends each housing the telescopic action that extends the table to varying lengths, three extra leaves and eight brass clips. It is supported on six turned tapering and reeded legs with brass caps and castors, each end with large brass handle engraved ‘Patent Morgan & Sanders Inventors & Manufacturers, 16 & 17 Catherine Street Strand London‘. English, circa 1815. Height: 28¾ in (73 cm) Length closed: 74in (188 cm) Extended 13ft 4in (406 cm) Width: 59½ in (151 cm) Literature: Nicholas A. Brawer, British Campaign Furniture – Elegance under Canvas, 1740-1914, New York, 2001, pp.192-193, pls.D50-D52 for a very similar dining table. Morgan & Sanders was established in 1800 by Thomas Morgan & Joseph Sanders, both of whom had worked for the cabinetmaker Thomas Butler at 13–14 Catherine Street, London. Initially, they produced campaign furniture, that is, furniture which could be easily knocked down and packed fairly flat, for the use of officers in military service. The Napoleonic War required an ever-expanding British Army and Navy, thus also increasing the demand for all types of campaign furniture, from collapsible beds...

A long early George III Irish mahogany dining or wake table of exceptional colour, the highly figured veneered oval top with two drop flaps down over ei...

A dining table made from a 19th century ship's steering wheel, upon an antique binnacle with bronze feet, English, circa 1850. With a modern glass top.

This mahogany dining table is of rectangular form with rare hinged D-ends, swivel top and reeded edge. It extends on an ingenious and complex action, with various levers and locks, ...

A centre table attributed to Holland and Sons related to a table in Clarence House, this exceptional table has a circular top decorated with six radiating amboyna veneers with a border of concentric marquetry rings. The decoration comprising kingwood bands within boxwood stringing, a continuous boxwood laurel wreath with ivory berries on a satinwood ground and further amboyna borders. The frieze has amboyna crossbanding and applied ormolu sunburst medallions. The support is composed of purpleheart columns inlaid with kingwood, terminating in low splayed feet, which encircle a classical urn on a plinth. The superb ormolu mounts include acanthus leaves, classical masks and patera. English, circa 1860. A table with a similar base and particularly fine ormolu mounts was exhibited by Holland and Sons in the International Exhibition in 1862 and illustrated as plate 40 in J. B. Waring’s book (see pages 100-103 for further references to this exhibition). A further closely related piece was in the collection of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and is shown in the Morning Room in Clarence House in the Daily Mail’s article ‘Inside the private world of Prince Charles’, November 2018. Originally founded by Stephen Taprell and William Holland...

A fine Regency dining table with rare telescopic extending action; figured mahogany; elegant twin 4-splay pedestals with handsome brass caste...

Regency dining table, the large rectangular top with rounded corners and moulded edge opening to incorporate additional leaf. Raised up on two pedestals with turned detail supported ...

Antique Regency Duncan Phyfe Style Twin Pillar/Pedestal Mahogany Dining Table Classic antique mahogany Duncan Phyfe style beautifully carved, turned double, 3-legged pedestal base w...

A very fine quality Regency period mahogany twin pillar extending dining table having exceptionally well figured top to tilting ends and original removable leaf raised on turned cent...

Very fine George III three pedestal dining table, the tops in richly grained mahogany, the bases with urn turned shafts over gra...

A very good antique Cuban mahogany George III Regency period twin pedestal dining table, circa 1810. The dining table with a rounded rectangular top with ...