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Antique Tables For Sale at Elisabeth James Antiques
'LARGEST STOCK OF GENUINE ANTIQUE DINING TABLES IN THE WORLD' for sale at Elisabeth James Antiques can have our customers sometimes daunted when selecting from the huge stock of over 400 Regency, Georgian, Victorian dining tables in mahogany, oak and...
Price: £ 0
Status: In stock
Circa:
Stock Code: E2350
4 Metre Antique Oak Refectory Farmhouse Hunt Table
If you are hunting for a large and genuine antique refectory table then there will be few in the World as good as this for scale and originality. Featuring a wide plank and cleated end top mounted to apron framing...
Price: £ 5700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1870
Stock Code: E2330
Antique Dining Table Kitchen Bleached Matt
As an example of what's possible here at Elisabeth James with our very talented team of 11 professional restorers here's an example of the transformation possible to our clients specifications if you have the notion of recycling a great piece...
Price: £ 3600
Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2326
2 Metre Circular Regency Dining Table To Seat 12 People
Certainly the most sociable dining setting is with company sat around a circular dining table and if having a square shaped dining room then the best possible seating capacity is served with a large diameter dining table. Nothing dates from...
Price: £ 4600
Status: In stock
Circa: Mid 1900s
Stock Code: E2324
Large Round Antique Table Regency Mahogany 6ft Diameter
Most impressive qualities to this Regency manner mahogany dining table which will seat 10 adults very comfortably. Nicely figured solid thumb moulded top, finished below with cross grain beaded apron. Very crisp articulate carving work to reeded stem meeting a...
Price: £ 3400
Status: In stock
Circa:
Stock Code: E2323
7 metre Antique Dining Table Late Victorian Round Extending
After 30 years specialising as the Uk's only true trade professional supplier of large genuine antique dining tables, together with a staff of combined 280 years of expertise, we still sometimes do get a pleasant surprise with a table of...
Price: £ 14500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2305
5 Metre Antique Oak Dining Table
Well here's proof that an antique dining table doesn't have to be dark and dour by naturally ageing to a bleached flotsam and jetsam appearance very similar to the fashionable look of the imported factory made tables from the East....
Price: £ 6700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2304
Georgian Mahogany Dining Table Campaign Sheraton Period
Absolutely unique to us the extraordinary campaign table dates from the late 18th Century Sheraton period and its metamorphic structure from side table to dining table to seat up to 16 people is simply a wonderment of our ancestors great...
Price: £ 6800
Status: In stock
Circa: C1790
Stock Code: E2302
12ft Regency Pedestal Dining Table With Crossbanding
It may surprise you that even the genuine late Victorian and Edwardian revival examples of the Regency pedestal table of any size are actually very rare. Those you see all over the internet described as Regency 'style', 'vintage', '20th Century',...
Price: £ 4600
Status: In stock
Circa: C1905
Stock Code: E2301
Regency Extending Dining Table Pedestal Cumberland Base
Very rare design of Regency mahogany pedestal dining table of the Cumberland format combining the classic sabre reeded legs with a runner system to off both the elegance and ergonomics to quickly format the table form 6 seat length out...
Price: £ 4700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Code: E2300
10ft Victorian Antique Oak Refectory Table
Preserved in super original condition this pretty rare 19th Century example has oodles of patination and charm to the oxidised cleated plank top which sits on a moulded apron frame. Baluster turned legs united but moulded stretchers and good...
Price: £ 2200
Status: In stock
Circa: C1870
Stock Code: E2299
8ft Antique Refectory Table In Oak Jacobean Revival
Thick blank top to this very solid Jacobean revival oak refectory table with a finishing apron below uniting turned legs united by stretcher - all bonded by classic pegged mortice and tenon joints. Measures 240cm long x 80cm wide.
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Price: £ 1500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1920
Stock Code: E2298
2 Metre Antique Oak Round Table Arts Crafts Circular
Large round oak antique tables are extremely rare so delighted to have this Arts & Crafts example in stock with its thick beautifully warm patinated boarded top. Stands on a square formed column meeting a circular platform and sleigh stretchers....
Price: £ 3200
Status: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Code: E2297
6 Metre Antique Dining Table Victorian Extending Mahogany Round End
Immensely impressive this top quality early Victorian period table is formed with demi ends and edge of classic drop thumb mouldings. Incorporating an incredibly well configured runner system which allows when required that the end can shoot beyond the legs...
Price: £ 12500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1840
Stock Code: E2296
Antique Oak Dining Table Victorian 5 Metre Arts Crafts
Extremely good quality late Victorian Arts and Crafts influence 16ft oak extending dining table with lovely run of quarter sawn timber to canted corner and edge moulded top. Heavy gauge runner system, steel winder and combination of extension leaves allows...
Price: £ 7700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E2294
Large Antique Oak Rectory Trestle Pedestal Base 4 metre Hunt Table
Oozing character this immense solid oak refectory table features wonderfully oxidised patinated plank top and is supported by well set in shaped trestle pedestal bases united by H stretchers. Will seat up to 16 adults very comfortably and more for...
Price: £ 5700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Code: E2293
Antique Oak Refectory Table 3 metres Arts Crafts
Late Victorian period Arts & Crafts influence oak refectory table of much more refined lines than more typical country pieces. Solid thumb moulded top to apron framework below and square formed tapering legs with spade feet. In untouched original condition...
Price: £ 2200
Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2292
12ft Round Regency Mahogany Pedestal Extending Dining Table
During a brief period of the late Regency period and through William IV our ancestors combined the sociability of the round breakfast table with the innovation of the runner sytem to make ergonomic extending dining tables on pedestal bases. This...
Price: £ 6850
Status: In stock
Circa: C1830
Stock Code: E2271
5 metre Antique Oak Extending Refectory Dining Table
Albeit the draw leaf refectory table is a format dating back to Medieval periods this 16ft example defies many of the classic historical designs by combining a refectory look with an articulate fine crafted cabriole formed leg to stand elegantly...
Price: £ 5800
Status: In stock
Circa: C1920
Stock Code: E2262
Large Oval Antique Oak Table Of Arts Crafts Influence 14ft Long
Large antique oval tables are extremely rare so we are very pleased with this impressive Arts influenced example of very solid oak construction. The boarded top is seated on a continuous finishing apron below which unites six square formed...
Price: £ 5500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1920
Stock Code: E2260
4 Metre Georgian Dining Table Gillows Leg Extending Mahogany Dining Table
A fabulous piece of history this 14ft long late Georgian period table is one of the earliest examples of the classic four leg extending runner system formats. By famous London makers W.Priest of Black Friars, the table offers a super...
Price: £ 8500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1825
Stock Code: E2259
Large Antique Oak Refectory Table 4 Metres Long Hunt Table
Of immensely impressive proportions this solid oak refectory table features a thick boarded top of over 4 metres length and good width for a run of platters down the middle for large parties and ideal as hunt table. Apron framework...
Price: £ 4600
Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2258
4 Metre Round Regency Pedestal Extending Mahogany Dining Table
Very rare format at the size this large untouched original late Regency period mahogany extending dining table is formed as centre piece circular table on a single pedestal base and extends from its round form via runners with the addition...
Price: £ 5400
Status: In stock
Circa: C1830
Stock Code: E2244
Large Antique Dining Table From Edwardian Period Extendable To 12ft Long
Quality built round Edwardian extending dining table with solid moulded edge top and apron surrounding, opening via a good quality sandwich action runner system and steel winding mechanism to include any combination of the additional four table leaves offer versatile...
Price: £ 3700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1905
Stock Code: E2243
12ft Large Regency Triple Pedestal Mahogany Dining Table
A good quality Regency revival pedestal dining table with D shaped ends with fabulous solid figured timber top (somewhat hidden by the very tired current finish!) supported by three pedestal bases and incorporating two extension leaves Be very smart table...
Price: £ 4300
Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2240
Large Antique Walnut Extending Victorian Dining Table 12ft Long
Handsome and crisp quality late 19th Century walnut extending dining table formed in the square with solid figured timbers to rounded corner top, finishing apron below and opening via runners to incorporate any combination addition of the original leaves...
Price: £ 4800
Status: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E2239
Large Antique Oak Extending Victorian Table 12ft Long to Seat 16 People
Classic Victorian oak extending round cornered D end dining table from the late 19th Century oak period. The table extends from a square form, opening via runners and winder with the addition of four table leaves to offer versatile seating...
Price: £ 4500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2237
Regency Pedestal Dining Table Triple Pedestal Mahogany To Seat Up To 16 People
Good quality Regency revival pedestal dining table with solid figure timber top and D shaped ends. Incorporating two extension leaves and supported by three pedestal bases to provide very flexible seating for 8 to 16 people. Each pedestal with turned...
Price: £ 4400
Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2236
Large Edwardian Arts Crafts Antique Oak Table 12ft Longth To seat 16 People
Crisp heavy quality Edwardian period oak 'Arts and Crafts' influenced extending dining table with solid quarter sawn top, canted at the corners and drop moulded to the edge. Opening via substantial runners system and steel winder to incorporate any combination...
Price: £ 3900
Status: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Code: E2233
Antique Arts Crafts Oak Extending Victorian Dining Table 3 Metres Long
Very good quality example of Arts & Crafts influence oak extending dining table from the late 19th Century. The table extends from a small rectangular form with apron surrounding the entire underside, opens via runners and winder with the addition...
Price: £ 3200
Status: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E2231
10ft 3 Metre Regency Twin Pedestal Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Large mahogany Regency revival twin pedestal dining table with D shaped ends and three extension leaves to vary size to seat 6 to 14 people comfortably. Standing on tuned columns supported by sabre legs terminating in brass toe casters. Currently...
Price: £ 2400
Status: In stock
Circa: Eraly 1900s
Stock Code: E2230
10 Foot Regency Gillows Dining Table Extending Mahogany Reeded Legs
Early period Gillows format Regency period mahogany extending dining table formed as two console ends, each incorporating a runner system that combined with three leaves allow varying table lengths to seat 6 to 12 people. The table ends can be...
Price: £ 4000
Status: In stock
Circa: C1820
Stock Code: E2227
3 Metre Tudor Revival Oak Refectory Table - 19th Century
Excellent example of true Tudor revival from the late 19th Century this refectory serving table very much looks the parts for a grand dining hall. Built with outer rails for bench seating (as per all original Jacobean period tables) we...
Price: £ 2700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1180
Stock Code: E2225
10ft 3 Metre Antique Oak Round Extending Victorian Dining Table
A fine quality round formed extending dining table from the late 19th Century Victorian oak period. The table extends from a perfect circle with finishing apron surround and opens via runners and steel winder to incorporate any combination of three...
Price: £ 3500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2223
9ft 3 Metre Antique Oak Refectory Table with Trestle Pedestal Bases
Substantial late Victorian medieval manner oak refectory table with very thick plank top of very good width and supported on a shaped trestle base united by central stretcher, providing easy seating all the way around the table for up to...
Price: £ 2200
Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2222
3 Metre Regency Extending Dining Table Gillows Console Form with Reeded Legs
Museum standard Gillows format (quality of this example extremely high so good chance actually from the Gillows workshop) late Regency period mahogany extending dining table formed as two console ends. Here in absolutely untouched original condition since the day made...
Price: £ 4400
Status: In stock
Circa: C1820
Stock Code: E2221
3 Metre AntiqueOak Refectory Table Of Jacobean Influence
Nicely patinated Jacobean revival oak refectory table with thick plank cleated top of good width and supported by turned baluster legs united by H stretcher arrangement for easy seating all the way around for up to 12 people....
Price: £ 2200
Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2220
8ft Antique Oak Oval Extending Single Pedestal Dining Table – Regency manner
Smart Regency design oak oval ended extending central pedestal table. The table extends from an oval form with apron surrounding the entire underside, opening via runners with the addition of table leaves to offer versatile seating lengths for 6 to...
Price: £ 1750
Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2218
Large Oval Antique Country Oak Farmhouse Table – Georgian Wake Table Design
Large 7ft 6inch long by 5ft wide 17th Century design oak country farmhouse table (Georgian wake table) with oval formed solid top supported by finely turned baluster gated legs tied by moulded stretchers. Lovely warm golden oak colour. Legs well...
Price: £ 2400
Status: In stock
Circa: Mid 1900s
Stock Code: E2217
Large 6ft Round Antique Dining Table To Seat 10 People
Stunning craftsmanship to this super quality large round mahogany dining table with solid ogee moulded top over relief foliate carved finishing apron. Most opulent scroll supports profusely carved and united by dentil carved platform base and scrolling feet. Bit grubby...
Price: £ 3600
Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2213
Round Regency Dining Table To Seat 6 People
Super flame mahogany segmented top to this very aesthetic centre piece Regency breakfast table with finishing apron below and standing on faceted column supported by round platform base with paw feet. Measures 48" diameter.
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Price: £ 1700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1825
Stock Code: E2210
10ft 3 Metre Antique Walnut Dining Table Edwardian Period Extending
From the very last era when these hand crafted solid extending dining tables were made this Edwardian period example very much follows the Maples & Co design with canted canted corners and very clean lines to the tuned legs. Extending...
Price: £ 2700
Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2206
Post Regency William IV 16ft Mahogany Extending Dining Table To Seta 20 People
Magnificent Post Regency period mahogany console end formed sectional dining table with wonderful figured timbers to the moulded edged top. Formed by two end and centre section with extension leaves to offer varying dining lengths. Standing on very fine turned...
Price: £ 12500
Status: In stock
Circa: C1830
Stock Code: E2204
Large Antique Oak Dining Room 5 Metre Late Victorian Extending Table
Its true to say we hold the largest stock of genuine antique dining tables in the World but our un-matched bespoke finishing allows us to delivery these magnificent examples not only as formal French polished but also a more earthy...
Price: £ 6900
Status: In stock
Circa: C1870
Stock Code: E2203
Large 4 Metre Regency Pedestal Dining Table George III influence
Not 19th Century but this very finely crafted extending Regency mahogany dining table has super figured timber top, crossbanded and reeded at the edge and stands on George III cabriole formed pad foot bases. Two extension leaves for flexible seating...
Price: £ 4600
Status: In stock
Circa: mid 1900s
Stock Code: E2200
ABOUT ANTIQUE DINING TABLES
A Guide to Antique Dining Tables
In terms of the antique dining tables available today we perhaps think as far back as the 16th Century for primitive plank top refectory tables but of coarse the civilised Worlds of ancient history have always built tables for dining. Perhaps the very first were smooth flat rocks used by our cave dwelling ancestors?
Generally speaking the further we look back in recent centuries the rarer the table and hence greater the price. From the Jacobean, Charles II, William & Mary and Queen Anne periods any sizeable 16th, 17th or early 18th Century English refectory table, if entirely original, is so rare that when coming to market you could expect to pay at least £10,000 and anything up to £100,000. Fortunately, in terms of budget, many of these early refectory tables were revived (copied) at later dates and have survived in greater numbers. Towards the end of the 19th Century there was a Jacobean Revival by the Victorians and we often find very well made and convincingly patinated examples of jointed and trestle ended early period refectory tables that range in price from £1500 for an 8ft to £3000 for larger.
By the mid 18th Century our seafaring merchants were importing highly fashionable exotic timbers and mahogany became the most desirable choice for cabinet makers and their clients. The transition from a mixed period of construction of earlier primitive design and cleaner Georgian designs during the early 18th Century soon became nearly exclusively formal designs during George II reign due to the enormous influence of Thomas Chippendale and his piers. London and major towns of England were modernising and its' society were now very much trying to 'keep up with the Jones's'.
It was during this early Chippendale period that the first examples of adjustable and extendable dining tables were designed and made. Using the tripod cabriole leg base design, often found on Georgian wine and occasional tables, much larger examples were made with rectangular tops in a series of three or four pedestal based sections joined by clips. These tables could by adjusted in length by using any combination of the sections and sometimes loose leaves were suspended between pedestals. In our combined 200 years of trading experience at Elisabeth James we have never seen in the market a completely original (retaining all pedestal bases and tops) version of these early Georgian extendable tables and hazard a guess that, if coming to the open market, could be in the region of £250,000 or more! However, throughout the 19th Century and especially during the 'Revival' period of Georgian designs late 19th/early 20th Century many good quality pedestal or 'pillar' tables were made to the same designs and are available today at affordable prices, £1500 - £10,000.
By the 1770's, in George III reign, a new version of extendable table known as a 'D' ended table was in manufacture. Comprising two demi or 'D' shaped end tables (look like console tables) with the centre extending section being a simple drop leaf table which could be clipped to the console shaped ends when leaves are raised. Always standing on square chamfered or tapering legs these tables were made in relatively large numbers and some complete examples survive today. The awkward positioning of the multiple legs do make them difficult to sit at and seating numbers are therefore restricted, which, as a consequence, makes them the very cheapest of Georgian dining tables with a price tag of as little as £3000 for an 8-9ft example.
The late 18th Century saw the emergence of a new genre of furniture designers who added a little finery to the antique dining table. Hepplewhite and Sheraton are perhaps the most influential of these new furniture designers but there were many more. Perhaps as a consequence of the difficulty sourcing timber due to wars, or maybe simply a decisive move for greater elegance, much of the heavy construction of Chippendale's era was surpassed. The pedestal bases of the sectional tables were now fitted with fine sweeping sabre legs and the console ended tables stood on turned legs which now incorporated extendable runners that could be joined in the middle so that a combination of extra leaves could be added. Again there are very few absolutely original examples in existence and the price varies enormously dependent on size and originality (and where you buy them!). At around 7 – 8ft you'd expect to pay around £10,000 in a retail shop. At 10ft or more most are retailed for £15 – 25,000 but we usually have stock of this larger size for a trade price of around £10,000.
At the turn of 19th Century another famous manufacture, Gillows of Lancaster, stamped his mark on furniture design. Incorporating much of the best work of Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite the Gillows workshops set the benchmark for the remaining Georgian reign, often referred to as the Regency Period, and much of the entire 19th Century designs of extending dining table. Perhaps the most noticeable Gillows feature was the tight reeded leg which was introduced in about 1805. Often referred to as a 'Gillows leg' but in fact a modification from Sheraton's work in the 1790's. By this time efforts were made to construct tables as one unit with the ability to extend using graduating telescopic runner systems and, for a brief period, using the Wilkinson patented 'scissor action' (hinged concertina frame). Most of these tables offer the classic fine reeded leg and use inner legs mounted on the extending framework to support the centre when fully extended. Small examples of 7 -8ft can be found for around (retail price) £8000 but larger examples of 10ft or over are quite rare so often anything from £15,000 - £25,000.
The brief period of George IV and William IV saw the final evolution of what was to became the format for all extending a dining tables for the remainder of the 19th Century. Tables where now all constructed as one unit and the box section telescopic action runner system employed as either a full length version with legs on each corner or ends pulled out from the legs and frame (mainly William IV period). The reeded leg dominated still but many William IV tables are distinguishable by their faceted legs. Prices range widely but the usual rule of thumb prevails with price dependent on size. From ourselves the smaller 8ft tables are around £3,000, 10ft around £5000, 12ft around £7500 and the very large and rare varying in price from £10,000.
Coinciding with Victoria coming to the thrown, and the beginnings of the industrialisation era, the very last feature of extending dining tables was introduced by a chap from Birmingham called Joseph Fitter. Although there are earlier examples of steel winding mechanisms known, it was Fitter who mass produced for cabinet makers the screw thread winding mechanisms that feature in nearly all extending dining tables dating from 1840 onwards. The emergence of the city dwelling 'Middle Classes', with their more compact town houses, created huge demand for extending dining tables and the Victorian period 1837 to 1901 could be viewed as the golden era of what most folk today picture in their minds to be the classic 'wind-out' extending dining table. The reeded leg was still used, but enlarged to support the table without middle legs, and plainer baluster turned legs equally as popular. Ranging in size from 6ft and manufactured in mahogany, oak and walnut, these tables are widely available in a smaller size but again very difficult to find at 10ft or over. However, this period saw a huge variation in the quality because these tables were now manufactured in what you might consider a 'mass produced' fashion. There were 'Aston Martin' cabinet makers and there were 'Fiat' cabinet makers. So, unfortunately, the market today sees many poor quality and badly restored examples on sale, seemingly always offered for sale described as 'quality' - usually via Ebay or in the 'hobbyist' antique centres. 'Caveat Emptor'.
The work required to restore a large antique dining table to its former glory, after 100 to 400 years of use, is substantial task. Over time the wooden runners wear, winding mechanisms bend and seize, leg joints loosen, timbers shrink and the table will almost always also need polishing due to unsightly marks, discolouration and general fatigue of the polish. Almost without exception, every table we stock required complete restoration in our workshops by a professional team of cabinet makers and polishers. Each table is carefully dismantled and all restoration completed before a full French Polish or wax finish. The cost to do this work, even for an 8ft example in seemingly good original order, is around £1500 to attain a perfect result. In terms of price a good quality fully restored 8ft Victorian table therefore, we feel, represents excellent value with prices starting from as little as £2000.
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