Featured Old tilt top small table

Looking for help aging . Identity this mahogany and ash table , cheers

 

Pics are pretty dark so hard to tell much. Does appear to be at least 19th century. Single board top? Size? Odd that top and base are different woods. Marriage? Really need more/better pictures.

 

Agrees, looks like a candle stand that got converted to a Tea table somewhere along the way.

 

Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking something doesn't add up with this table.

 

Got any dimensions, Cassy???

 

Mawwaige?

 

I like the hardware.....these 3 leg puppies can wobble all over the place !!

 

You can see, at the very least, I think those nice leg supports are fixing a bad crack!!!

 

Yeah, the problem is, it should be a single piece of hand forged iron, not 3 separate pieces as in this table. Also, the legs on tripod tables are usually dovetailed into the column, i don't see that here either. Course, it is english, not my field so.......

 

As a fan of those little tables, I give you my opinion too, the top is a good english part especially looking at the lock typically english, mounted sometimes later on foots by a man who is not a wood worker to save this top, the steel blades under are really not a good quality indication(superb examples by James !)…

 

So is it possible that the parts of the table are very different ages? Or do they seem about the same age? I've never owned this type of table, but rather like them.

 

Well, anything is possible i guess but, the legs appear like they are screwed to the column which if they are, right away excludes OP table as being period. In america there were basically only 2 types of tripod tables, candle stands & tea tables, in england many more uses, dessert tables, supper tables, all kinds of tripod tables.
Tripod candle stands are NOTORIOUSLY unstable & will tip over quite easily. In america when whale oil lamps came about in 1820- 1830 or so, tripod candle stands stopped being made pretty much overnight, they were just to dangerous to hold a lamp filled with oil.
4 leg light stands (now referred to as work stands) became the the standard in america and it stayed that way for the remainder of the 19th century.
Not sure about the history of tripod tables in england.

 

Thanks for the information!

 

Looking under the two near me, they don't have a steel part under, but the mount is very precise and they have the chance to never has been transported or used for other purpose than dumb waiters or just tables you put near your seat for tea or scones etc…