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'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...

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Status: In stock
Circa:
Stock Lawmaking: E2350

Antique Dining Table Kitchen Bleached Matt

Equally an example of what'due south possible here at Elisabeth James with our very talented squad of 11 professional restorers hither'south an case of the transformation possible to our clients specifications if yous take the notion of recycling a keen piece...

Price: £ 3600

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2326

2 Metre Circular Regency Dining Tabular array To Seat 12 People

Certainly the most sociable dining setting is with company sat around a circular dining tabular array and if having a square shaped dining room so the all-time possible seating capacity is served with a large diameter dining table. Nothing dates from...

Price: £ 4600

Status: In stock
Circa: Mid 1900s
Stock Lawmaking: E2324

5 Metre Antique Oak Dining Table

Well here's proof that an antique dining table doesn't have to exist dark and dour by naturally ageing to a bleached flotsam and jetsam advent very similar to the stylish look of the imported factory made tables from the Eastward....

Price: £ 6700

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Lawmaking: E2304

Georgian Mahogany Dining Table Campaign Sheraton Flow

Admittedly unique to u.s.a. the extraordinary campaign table dates from the tardily 18th Century Sheraton period and its metamorphic structure from side table to dining table to seat up to sixteen people is but a wonderment of our ancestors bully...

Cost: £ 6800

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1790
Stock Code: E2302

12ft Regency Pedestal Dining Table With Crossbanding

It may surprise you that fifty-fifty the genuine late Victorian and Edwardian revival examples of the Regency pedestal tabular array of any size are actually very rare. Those you see all over the internet described equally Regency 'way', 'vintage', '20th Century',...

Toll: £ 4600

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1905
Stock Code: E2301

Regency Extending Dining Table Pedestal Cumberland Base

Very rare blueprint of Regency mahogany pedestal dining table of the Cumberland format combining the classic sabre reeded legs with a runner organisation to off both the elegance and ergonomics to quickly format the table form 6 seat length out...

Toll: £ 4700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Code: E2300

8ft Antiquarian Refectory Tabular array 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 archetype 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 antiquarian 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 round platform and sleigh stretchers....

Toll: £ 3200

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Lawmaking: E2297

Antique Oak Dining Table Victorian v Metre Arts Crafts

Extremely expert 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 acme. Heavy guess runner system, steel winder and combination of extension leaves allows...

Price: £ 7700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E2294

Antiquarian Oak Refectory Tabular array three metres Arts Crafts

Late Victorian period Arts & Crafts influence oak refectory table of much more than refined lines than more typical land pieces. Solid thumb moulded top to apron framework below and square formed tapering legs with spade feet. In untouched original condition...

Toll: £ 2200

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2292

v metre Antique Oak Extending Refectory Dining Tabular array

Albeit the draw leaf refectory tabular array is a format dating dorsum to Medieval periods this 16ft example defies many of the classic historical designs past combining a refectory look with an articulate fine crafted cabriole formed leg to stand up elegantly...

Price: £ 5800

Status: In stock
Circa: C1920
Stock Code: E2262

Big Oval Antiquarian Oak Tabular array Of Arts Crafts Influence 14ft Long

Large antiquarian oval tables are extremely rare then nosotros are very pleased with this impressive Arts influenced example of very solid oak construction. The boarded height is seated on a continuous finishing apron below which unites six foursquare formed...

Price: £ 5500

Status: In stock
Circa: C1920
Stock Code: E2260

iv Metre Georgian Dining Table Gillows Leg Extending Mahogany Dining Table

A fabulous piece of history this 14ft long late Georgian period table is ane of the earliest examples of the classic four leg extending runner organisation formats. Past famous London makers Westward.Priest of Black Friars, the table offers a super...

Cost: £ 8500

Status: In stock
Circa: C1825
Stock Code: E2259

Large Antique Oak Refectory Table 4 Metres Long Chase Table

Of immensely impressive proportions this solid oak refectory table features a thick boarded tiptop of over 4 metres length and practiced width for a run of platters downwardly the middle for large parties and ideal equally hunt table. Frock framework...

Price: £ 4600

Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2258

four 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 equally centre piece circular table on a single pedestal base of operations and extends from its round grade via runners with the addition...

Price: £ 5400

Status: In stock
Circa: C1830
Stock Code: E2244

Large Antique Dining Table From Edwardian Flow Extendable To 12ft Long

Quality congenital circular Edwardian extending dining table with solid moulded edge top and frock surrounding, opening via a good quality sandwich activeness runner organization and steel winding machinery to include any combination of the additional four table leaves offer versatile...

Toll: £ 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 past three pedestal bases and incorporating two extension leaves Be very smart table...

Price: £ 4300

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2240

Big Antique Walnut Extending Victorian Dining Table 12ft Long

Handsome and crisp quality tardily 19th Century walnut extending dining table formed in the square with solid figured timbers to rounded corner acme, finishing apron below and opening via runners to incorporate any combination addition of the original leaves...

Toll: £ 4800

Status: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Lawmaking: E2239

Big Antique Oak Extending Victorian Table 12ft Long to Seat 16 People

Classic Victorian oak extending round cornered D end dining table from the belatedly 19th Century oak menstruum. The table extends from a square form, opening via runners and winder with the add-on of four tabular array leaves to offering versatile seating...

Price: £ 4500

Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2237

Regency Pedestal Dining Table Triple Pedestal Mahogany To Seat Up To xvi People

Good quality Regency revival pedestal dining table with solid figure timber top and D shaped ends. Incorporating 2 extension leaves and supported by 3 pedestal bases to provide very flexible seating for 8 to xvi people. Each pedestal with turned...

Price: £ 4400

Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Lawmaking: E2236

Large Edwardian Arts Crafts Antique Oak Table 12ft Longth To seat 16 People

Crisp heavy quality Edwardian period oak 'Craft' influenced extending dining table with solid quarter sawn tiptop, canted at the corners and drop moulded to the border. Opening via substantial runners system and steel winder to incorporate any combination...

Toll: £ 3900

Status: In stock
Circa: C1910
Stock Code: E2233

Antiquarian Arts Crafts Oak Extending Victorian Dining Tabular array 3 Metres Long

Very skillful quality example of Arts & Crafts influence oak extending dining table from the late 19th Century. The tabular array extends from a modest rectangular form with apron surrounding the unabridged underside, opens via runners and winder with the add-on...

Price: £ 3200

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E2231

10ft 3 Metre Regency Twin Pedestal Mahogany Extending Dining Tabular array

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 past sabre legs terminating in contumely toe casters. Currently...

Price: £ 2400

Status: In stock
Circa: Eraly 1900s
Stock Code: E2230

ten Human foot Regency Gillows Dining Table Extending Mahogany Reeded Legs

Early on period Gillows format Regency period mahogany extending dining table formed every bit two console ends, each incorporating a runner system that combined with three leaves allow varying table lengths to seat vi to 12 people. The table ends can be...

Price: £ 4000

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1820
Stock Code: E2227

3 Metre Tudor Revival Oak Refectory Table - 19th Century

Excellent instance of truthful Tudor revival from the tardily 19th Century this refectory serving table very much looks the parts for a grand dining hall. Built with outer rails for demote seating (as per all original Jacobean menstruum tables) nosotros...

Price: £ 2700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1180
Stock Lawmaking: E2225

10ft 3 Metre Antique Oak Round Extending Victorian Dining Table

A fine quality circular formed extending dining table from the tardily 19th Century Victorian oak period. The table extends from a perfect circle with finishing apron surround and opens via runners and steel winder to comprise any combination of 3...

Price: £ 3500

Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2223

9ft 3 Metre Antique Oak Refectory Tabular array with Trestle Pedestal Bases

Substantial late Victorian medieval manner oak refectory table with very thick plank top of very adept width and supported on a shaped trestle base united past central stretcher, providing easy seating all the style around the table for up to...

Cost: £ 2200

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2222

iii Metre Regency Extending Dining Table Gillows Console Grade with Reeded Legs

Museum standard Gillows format (quality of this example extremely high and so good adventure actually from the Gillows workshop) late Regency period mahogany extending dining table formed equally two console ends. Here in admittedly untouched original condition since the day made...

Price: £ 4400

Status: In stock
Circa: C1820
Stock Lawmaking: E2221

three Metre AntiqueOak Refectory Table Of Jacobean Influence

Nicely patinated Jacobean revival oak refectory table with thick plank cleated elevation of good width and supported past turned baluster legs united by H stretcher arrangement for easy seating all the fashion around for upward to 12 people....

Price: £ 2200

Status: In stock
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E2220

Large Oval Antique Country Oak Farmhouse Tabular array – Georgian Wake Table Blueprint

Large 7ft 6inch long past 5ft wide 17th Century design oak state farmhouse table (Georgian wake table) with oval formed solid top supported by finely turned baluster gated legs tied past moulded stretchers. Lovely warm golden oak colour. Legs well...

Price: £ 2400

Status: In stock
Circa: Mid 1900s
Stock Lawmaking: E2217

Large 6ft Round Antiquarian Dining Tabular array To Seat 10 People

Stunning craftsmanship to this super quality large round mahogany dining tabular array with solid ogee moulded acme over relief foliate carved finishing apron. About opulent scroll supports profusely carved and united by dentil carved platform base and scrolling feet. Bit grubby...

Toll: £ 3600

Status: In stock
Circa: Early on 1900s
Stock Code: E2213

Circular Regency Dining Tabular array To Seat vi People

Super flame mahogany segmented summit to this very aesthetic middle piece Regency breakfast table with finishing apron beneath and standing on faceted column supported by round platform base with paw anxiety. Measures 48" bore.
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Price: £ 1700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1825
Stock Code: E2210

10ft 3 Metre Antiquarian Walnut Dining Tabular array Edwardian Menstruum Extending

From the very last era when these hand crafted solid extending dining tables were made this Edwardian period case very much follows the Maples & Co blueprint with canted canted corners and very make clean lines to the tuned legs. Extending...

Cost: £ 2700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Lawmaking: E2206

Post Regency William Four 16ft Mahogany Extending Dining Table To Seta 20 People

Magnificent Post Regency period mahogany console cease formed sectional dining tabular array with wonderful figured timbers to the moulded edged acme. Formed by ii cease and centre section with extension leaves to offer varying dining lengths. Continuing on very fine turned...

Price: £ 12500

Status: In stock
Circa: C1830
Stock Code: E2204

Large Antique Oak Dining Room 5 Metre Late Victorian Extending Tabular array

Its true to say we hold the largest stock of genuine antique dining tables in the World but our united nations-matched bespoke finishing allows us to delivery these magnificent examples not only every bit formal French polished simply also a more than earthy...

Price: £ 6900

Condition: In stock
Circa: C1870
Stock Lawmaking: E2203

Large 4 Metre Regency Pedestal Dining Table George Three influence

Non 19th Century merely this very finely crafted extending Regency mahogany dining tabular array has super figured timber height, crossbanded and reeded at the border and stands on George Iii cabriole formed pad pes bases. Two extension leaves for flexible seating...

Cost: £ 4600

Status: In stock
Circa: mid 1900s
Stock Lawmaking: E2200

Large Antique Gothic Oak Dining Table Extending To Seat 16 People

Our ancestors were simply the best furniture makers in the World during the 19th Century and we had to commend the qualities of any genuine antiquarian tabular array that has survived and then crispy after over a Century of apply. This 12ft...

Price: £ 4700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E2198

Victorian Walnut Dining Table Extendable To 300cm Long

French originals to this trestle pedestal Victorian walnut extending dining table with D cease solid timber top, opening via runners to add in whatever variation of the extension leaves for seating of half dozen to 12 people. Standing on well set...

Toll: £ 2500

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Code: E2196

10ft Victorian Walnut Dining Extending On Pedestal Bases

Amongst our drove of 400+ antique dining table nosotros have at least 100 dining tables 10ft length to choose from including Victorian, Regency and Georgian dining tables both extending and on pedestals. This French walnut tabular array is of usual format...

Price: £ 2900

Status: In stock
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E2194

Extending Regency Dining Room Tabular array With Gillows Reeded Legs

Regency flow mahogany dining tabular array from the very primeval 19th concepts to introduce runner systems to create the almost compact dining solutions for town houses where infinite an issue but dining large numbers was a must. This extraordinary piece of...

Price: £ 3800

Status: In stock
Circa: C1820
Stock Code: E2193

Regency Dining Table Pedestal Bases iii Metres Long

Large mahogany Regency twin pedestal dining tabular array with D finish shaped ends ant ii extension leaves to vary size to seat 5 to 12 people comfortably. Standing on tuned columns supported past sabre legs terminating in brass toe casters. Matured...

Price: £ 2700

Status: In stock
Circa: C1900
Stock Lawmaking: E2192

Large Antique 10ft Georgian Mahogany Extending Dining tabular array

Elegant early on period mahogany extending dining tabular array formed as three sections with excellent figured hand cut timbers with reeded edge and two extension leaves. Versatile and piece of cake move to be side consoles for space in the room (equally was the...

Price: £ 3800

Status: In stock
Circa: C1810
Stock Code: E2148

ABOUT ANTIQUE DINING TABLES

A Guide to Antiquarian Dining Tables

In terms of the antique dining tables available today nosotros perhaps think as far dorsum as the 16th Century for primitive plank top refectory tables but of fibroid the civilised Worlds of ancient history accept e'er congenital tables for dining. Maybe the very first were smooth flat rocks used by our cave home ancestors?

Generally speaking the farther we expect dorsum in contempo centuries the rarer the tabular array and hence greater the price. From the Jacobean, Charles II, William & Mary and Queen Anne periods whatever sizeable 16th, 17th or early 18th Century English refectory tabular array, if entirely original, is and then rare that when coming to market yous could expect to pay at least £10,000 and anything up to £100,000. Fortunately, in terms of upkeep, many of these early on refectory tables were revived (copied) at later dates and have survived in greater numbers. Towards the terminate of the 19th Century there was a Jacobean Revival past the Victorians and we often find very well made and assuredly patinated examples of jointed and trestle concluded early period refectory tables that range in cost 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 menstruum of construction of before primitive design and cleaner Georgian designs during the early 18th Century shortly became almost 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' guild were now very much trying to 'go along upwards with the Jones's'.

It was during this early on Chippendale period that the starting time examples of adaptable and extendable dining tables were designed and made. Using the tripod cabriole leg base design, often found on Georgian vino and occasional tables, much larger examples were made with rectangular tops in a series of 3 or 4 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 feel 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 gauge that, if coming to the open market, could be in the region of £250,000 or more! Even so, throughout the 19th Century and particularly during the 'Revival' period of Georgian designs late 19th/early 20th Century many good quality pedestal or 'pillar' tables were fabricated to the same designs and are available today at affordable prices, £1500 - £10,000.

By the 1770's, in George 3 reign, a new version of extendable table known as a 'D' ended table was in manufacture. Comprising ii demi or 'D' shaped end tables (look like panel tables) with the centre extending section being a elementary drop leafage table which could be clipped to the panel 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 every bit £3000 for an 8-9ft example.

The late 18th Century saw the emergence of a new genre of furniture designers who added a fiddling finery to the antique dining table. Hepplewhite and Sheraton are perhaps the most influential of these new furniture designers just at that place were many more than. Maybe every bit a consequence of the difficulty sourcing timber due to wars, or maybe merely a decisive move for greater elegance, much of the heavy construction of Chippendale'south 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 cost varies enormously dependent on size and originality (and where you buy them!). At around vii – 8ft you'd expect to pay around £x,000 in a retail store. At 10ft or more than near are retailed for £15 – 25,000 simply we ordinarily have stock of this larger size for a trade toll of effectually £10,000.

At the turn of 19th Century another famous manufacture, Gillows of Lancaster, stamped his marker on furniture blueprint. Incorporating much of the all-time work of Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite the Gillows workshops ready the benchmark for the remaining Georgian reign, frequently referred to as the Regency Period, and much of the entire 19th Century designs of extending dining table. Perhaps the most noticeable Gillows characteristic 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 cursory period, using the Wilkinson patented 'scissor action' (hinged concertina frame). Most of these tables offer the archetype fine reeded leg and use inner legs mounted on the extending framework to support the centre when fully extended. Pocket-sized examples of vii -8ft tin be constitute for effectually (retail price) £8000 but larger examples of 10ft or over are quite rare so ofttimes anything from £15,000 - £25,000.

The brief period of George Four 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 ane unit of measurement and the box section telescopic action runner system employed every bit 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 even so just 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 chosen 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 almost all extending dining tables dating from 1840 onwards. The emergence of the metropolis dwelling 'Center Classes', with their more than 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 motion picture in their minds to be the classic 'current of air-out' extending dining tabular array. The reeded leg was however used, but enlarged to support the table without middle legs, and plainer baluster turned legs equally equally popular. Ranging in size from 6ft and manufactured in mahogany, oak and walnut, these tables are widely available in a smaller size but over again very difficult to find at 10ft or over. Even so, this period saw a huge variation in the quality considering these tables were now manufactured in what you might consider a 'mass produced' fashion. There were 'Aston Martin' cabinet makers and in that location were 'Fiat' cabinet makers. So, unfortunately, the market today sees many poor quality and badly restored examples on sale, seemingly always offered for auction described as 'quality' - usually via Ebay or in the 'hobbyist' antiquarian centres. 'Caveat Emptor'.

The piece of work required to restore a big antique dining table to its one-time glory, afterward 100 to 400 years of use, is substantial task. Over time the wooden runners habiliment, winding mechanisms bend and seize, leg joints loosen, timbers shrink and the table will almost always also demand 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 effectually £1500 to attain a perfect event. In terms of price a good quality fully restored 8ft Victorian table therefore, we experience, represents excellent value with prices starting from as footling every bit £2000.

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