Featured Table???

I found this table years ago under a house in Cleveland Ohio. It's in fair condition but does need restored, including new veneer on top. I'm not here to beg for a value, but wonder if anyone out there knows anything about it. I'm not sure what to do with it and don't really know or trust any local antique people. My wife wants to cut it in half and make 2 half tables out if it. Any ideas what it is or where it came from?

 

Welcome to Antiquers, Mike!

I think if you posted the photo in the Furniture section of this site you would get even more viewers. But, you may get some replies here as well.

By the way, you are showing in the member count on the front page of the site as the current latest member, and it also says there are 8,000 members. So, it looks like you are the 8,000th. Welcome again!

I'm not a furniture expert at all, but I have a table very much like this that was given to me by my mother. It's been stripped of all finish, even the veneer. I have it covered with a tablecloth in my living room, just begging to be refinished -- or these days, painted. -- But I've had it for years now in this condition.

 

Welcome Mike, and congratulations on being the 8,000th member of Antiquers!
@daveydempsey could you please move this thread to furniture for Mike?

Please ask, if you need, beg, her not to. It looks like an Orientalist table, probably Western made, but influenced by side tables from the Middle East and India. If you cut it in half you lose that wonderful octagonal Orientalist shape.

 

Welcome, Mike! And congratulations on being number 8000!!

I would argue strongly against cutting the table in half for both style and structural considerations. How would the newly straight sides be supported? You'd have to be (or hire) a skilled woodworker to make that work.

 

Since the finish is already trashed, I'd refinish the bottom and slap some paint on the top. That's fashionable now, and it would make the piece usable. Then add spacers whatsits and put a round glass top over the paint. Problem solved.

 

Cut that sucker in half and make fabulous end tables! Your wife is right,its a great look. That table is nothing special ,1920s mass produced.Theres no real value to it,other than its got great lines.

 

All in with @johnnycb09 - Could be really cool! It's very porous wood with shot veneer - sorry

CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING 8000, @Mike palmer ! WOWSERS!

 

That date range and mass production is exactly what I was assuming about mine. It looks fine with a very long tablecloth over it, though.

 

Drats..... I was going to quit the forum and then rejoin so that I COULD BE THE 8000th . But alas, now there is 8006, sigh

Welcome Mike,

 

Certainly 20s and styling suggests William and Mary influence. Little value in this condition. Wouldn't cut it in half since would lose structural integrity without further modification. Good candidate for a paint project.

 

Thanks all for the info! The idea of cutting it in half would be to wall mount it in a hallway in our house, meaning legs out and cut side mounted to the wall. I restore old cars and don't throw anything away because even though I don't need a part I may have, someone else may need that part. So I didn't want to destroy something that may have some value or somebody else could make beautiful again. Thanks again to all!!!