Featured Can anyone offer some information on my tilting table

I bought this online about 5 years ago...sold as a breakfast table.Its mahogany,it tilts and has a hand painted top.The paint has a very old patina to it.I wonder if anyone could throw some light onto its age and origins.Not sure if its run of the mill or unusual to be quite honest...

 

Hi Martin. It will be easier for everyone, if you go back and click Edit at the bottom of your post and go to the top of your photos and click Full Image. Nice table by the way

 

Hello, Martin. I'm surprised to see a table that looks so heavy that could be tilted. Can we see it tilted plus a good look at the tilt hardware?

I hate to say it but the top does not look handpainted or to have "old patina" in the pictures. Can we see the top from the side, straight on?

Dimensions would also be useful, particularly how far from the table top to the floor and the diameter of the top.

 

Also, which country was it bought in? It has an Italian look.

 

It appears to be mimicking a pietra dura and/or marquetry table. Wouldn't think it's terribly old but someone will know better than I.

Debora

 

It's very Versace.

 

Diameter is 120cm..height of top from floor is 71cm.The lines of the designs on top have slight relief when you run your hands over them and the matching themes painted have slightly different brushstrokes to them.The tilting mechanism is very crusty and old.Don't really want to disturb it.

it was bought in the UK

 

It does have that over-the-top Versace-era Italian design sensibility, doesn't it?

Debora

 

Wondering if it is 1940s or later.
Even though you don't want to tilt the table, are you agile enough to crawl under and get a picture of the hardware and any markings on them or the table?

Game table?
Seance table?

@Bronwen
Is this one of the gods?

 

I was looking at it earlier & concluded it is artist's fantasy, sort of a nature spirit, nothing from the classical stories.

Love the table.

 

Agreed, guesses late 20th century.

 

Managed a photo of the underside latch....

 

Hoom, hoom. The mechanism and foot are very 30s. Would fit well in Eltham Palace. I think it's around that period. There was a bit of that classicism extravaganza at the time.

 

Here's a not dissimilar one from 1990s.

https://www.chairish.com/product/22...l-round-eglomise-top-center-dining-room-table

Debora

 

Melusine.

 

Melusine was female, and had double fish tails that looked like a mermaid's single one. I think the Starbucks company uses a version of Melusine in their logo. To me the being in the original post looks like a male and has plant life, not animal life, for the bottom of his body.

 

Yeah, looks like a man to me.

 

No? That's just a neoclassical motif.

Oh an by the way, that table top is a copy of a ceiling.
Here, it's almost identical except the central piece.

Just google Robert Adam ceiling V&A!

 

A Adam's ceiling! Too funny!

Debora