This is a fine quality antique English Georgian Regency mahogany coffee table, with an oval-shaped top, measuring 3ft 6” wide, adapted from a larger table, circa 1830, in excellent condition. 

Summary: 

• Item: Mahogany Coffee Table 

• Circa: 1830 

• Period: Regency 

• Provenance: England, UK 

• Wood: Mahogany 

• Width: 3ft 5½” 

• Classic Regen design 

• Adapted from a larger / taller table 

• Oval moulded top 

• Three splayed mahogany legs 

• Ebony string inlay 

• Brass toes and castors 

• Lovely rich mahogany colour 

• Original polish & patination 

• Solid in joint 

• Excellent condition 

• Free delivery to England, Wales & southern Scotland 

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Description:

This is a fine quality antique English Georgian Regency mahogany coffee table, with an oval-shaped top, measuring 3ft 5½” wide, adapted from a larger table, circa 1830, in excellent condition.  The Regency coffee table has been adapted from a larger taller table top and reduced in height, in order to serve at a coffee table height and size.  The oval coffee table measures 3ft 5½” wide by 1ft 11⅝” deep.  This antique mahogany low table incorporates an oval moulded mahogany top, attached to pedestal base, with three splayed mahogany legs, decorated with ebony inlay and terminating on the brass toe caps and castors.  This antique coffee table is solid in joint and ready to use. 

This Regency mahogany coffee table displays a rich mahogany colour.  As it boasts the original polish, it has a fantastic colour patination which can only be achieved through age and years of care and cleaning it has received. 

This Regency mahogany coffee table, would look good in either a traditional or contemporary setting, for formal or everyday use, as a coffee table / centre table and radiates timeless character and charm.  It would certainly grace any home or office and is a great investment as it is extremely functional. 

History of the Coffee Table:

In Europe, the first tables specifically designed as and called coffee tables, appear to have been made in Britain during the late Victorian era.  According to the listing in Victorian Furniture by R. W. Symonds & B. B. Whineray and also in The Country Life Book of English Furniture by Edward T. Joy, a table designed by E. W. Godwin in 1868 and made in large numbers by William Watt, and Collinson and Lock, is a coffee table.  If this is correct, it may be one of the earliest made in Europe. Other sources list it only as a “table”, so this cannot be stated categorically. Far from being a low table, this table was about twenty-seven inches high.   

Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, similar to ones used in tea houses. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870’s and 1880’s, and low tables were common in Japan, this seems to be a likely source for the concept of a long low table.  Furthermore, with the increased number of coffee houses in England, demand for low “coffee” tables also increase.  This led to English cabinetmakers designing sofas and couches to stand in front of a centre table in the living room, which further influenced the desire for coffee tables within British homes. 

From the late 19th century onward, many coffee tables were subsequently made in earlier styles due to the popularity of revivalism, so it is quite possible to find Louis XVI-style coffee tables or Georgian-style coffee tables, but there seems to be no evidence of a table actually made as a coffee table before this time. Joseph Aronson in 1938 defined a coffee table as a “low wide table now used before a sofa or couch”, adding “there is no historical precedent”, perhaps suggesting they came late in the history of furniture. With the increasing availability of television sets from the 1950s onward, coffee tables came into their own, since they are low enough, even with cups and glasses on them, not to obstruct the view of the TV. 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_table  

Source: https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/a-potted-history-of-the-coffee-table  

Source: https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/coffee-table-design-history/  

Condition Report:

This is a fine quality antique English Georgian Regency mahogany coffee table, with an oval-shaped top, measuring 3ft 5½” wide, adapted from a larger table, circa 1830, in excellent condition.  The Regency coffee table has been adapted from a larger taller table top and reduced in height, in order to serve at a coffee table height and size.  Nominal old use marks to the top and leading edges, but nothing significant considering its age.  There are no breaks to the frame, splayed legs or brass castors.  As this mahogany coffee table boasts the original polish, it has a fantastic mellow colour and patination.  This 19th century coffee table is well constructed, solid in joint and ready to use. 

Dimensions:

Height = 48.5cm / 19⅛” / 1ft 7⅛”
Width = 105.5cm / 41½” / 3ft 5½”
Depth = 60cm / 23⅝” / 1ft 11⅝”

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Product Code: 116838