What is a vintage walnut tea table?

A vintage walnut tea table is a low or occasional table constructed from walnut timber, designed for serving or general display in a reception room. The category spans early Georgian pieces, fold-over card tables, and twentieth-century Art Deco coffee tables in burr walnut.

How do I date a walnut table?

Dating relies on observing stylistic markers, construction methods, and materials such as ormolu mounts, bleached finishes, or specific revival idioms. Items on this page date primarily from the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties, alongside Georgian examples.

Burr walnut is decorative wood taken from the gnarled outgrowth of a walnut tree, producing highly intricate and swirling patterns. Cabinet makers slice this figured wood into thin veneers to adorn the main surfaces of tables.

Are these tables solid walnut?

Tables in this selection utilise a mixture of solid walnut timbers and decorative walnut veneers applied over a core structure. Makers often employed figured burr veneers to achieve dramatic visual patterns while maintaining structural stability.