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<div class="headline_area"> <h1 class="entry-title">Games tables</h1> </div> <div class="format_text entry-content"> <div id="attachment_2357" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 696px"> <a href="#pics"><img class="size-full wp-image-2357" title="Games table" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408170000im_/http://www.homethingspast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/games-table.jpg" alt="games and cards table 18th century" width="696" height="447"/></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Table from around 1750 has a backgammon board under a chess/checkers/draughts board, and nine men's morris at the other end. Probably German. Photo by Thomas Quine</p> </div> <p>This table is a fine example of the 18th century fashion for specialised furniture designed to suit particular interests and hobbies. It’s beautifully crafted by a skilled cabinet-maker for a client with plenty of money. Look at the inlay work in the games boards, the edgings, the pairs of dice – and all over. Set in the walnut surface are maple, plum, mahogany and other woods, expertly cut and fitted together.</p> <p>The later 1700s saw more and more furniture created exclusively for people’s leisure activities. Clever <a href="/web/20150408170000/http://www.homethingspast.com/metamorphic-library-steps/">metamorphic step-chairs</a> for private libraries, and <a href="/web/20150408170000/http://www.homethingspast.com/antique-card-tables/">card tables</a> for the drawing-room are two examples I’ve already written about. Ladies’ <a href="/web/20150408170000/http://www.homethingspast.com/antique-needlework-tables/">(needle)work tables</a> were surprisingly often combined with chess boards, and are sometimes as elaborate and decorative as the games table shown here. Stylish, ingenious pieces of furniture suited the mood of the times.</p> <div id="attachment_2361" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 250px"> <img class="size-full wp-image-2361" title="Georgian backgammon and chess table" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408170000im_/http://www.homethingspast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/backgammon-chess-table.jpg" alt="Georgian games table" width="250" height="514"/> <p class="wp-caption-text">Mahogany games table with inlaid chess board. View from side and above showing sliding, reversible top and backgammon layout beneath. English, c1795</p> </div> <p>Games boards can be seen occasionally on earlier furniture, like the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408170000/http://www.nationaltrustimages.org.uk/image/166616">amazing 16th century “Eglantine” table</a> covered with fine marquetry at Hardwick Hall, England. (Detail pictured below.) But the 18th century brought something new. The table to the right is not as fine as the one in the main picture, but it is probably more typical:</p> <blockquote><p>The top is inlaid as a chessboard on the under side, and is made to slide in grooves and to be reversible when required. The top when removed discloses two compartments fitted for backgammon. This game is one of considerable antiquity in England, and was generally referred to as “the tables”. Although now relegated to country vicarages and the homes of the smaller squirearchy, it was a fashionable amusement during the eighteenth century, and one at which considerable sums were won and lost by the “bucks” of the Georgian period and the days of the Regency.<br/> Herbert Cecsinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1909</p></blockquote> <h2>Porcelain, and more table details</h2> <p>The bigger porcelain box on the table at the top of the page is for game tokens or counters, and was made by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408170000/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissen_porcelain">Meissen</a>, probably between 1750 and 1780. The little green one is a Meissen snuff box made c1745. Inside the lid (sorry, not visible) is a scene of people playing tric-trac, a kind of backgammon. The glass beakers with playing card decoration are the oldest things in sight; they come from early 1700s Saxony.</p> <div id="attachment_2366" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 250px"> <a href="#pics"><img class="size-full wp-image-2366" title="Eglantine table detail" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408170000im_/http://www.homethingspast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/eglantine-table-detail.jpg" alt="16th century table" width="250" height="198"/></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Chess and backgammon boards inlaid in 16th century Hardwick Hall table. Photo by Damian Entwistle</p> </div> <p>The German table, in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408170000/http://www.dhm.de/">Deutsches Historisches Museum</a>, is approx. 35 by 29 inches, and 29 inches high. The English Georgian table is 28 and a half inches high. The top is only 20 by 22 inches when the side flaps are down. When up, they rest on hinged supports, and make the table’s full length 39 inches.</p> <h6 id="pics">Photos</h6> <p>Photographers credited in captions. 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