In 2010 we acquired this fabulous Antique Billiard table and scoring cabinet, made for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887,we restored the table by hand and presented it at the world renowned Masterpiece Fair in London , where it was purchased by a private client.

Below is a summary from the original catalogue 

“The idea carried out in the carved ornamentation of the “Queen”Billiard Table has been to give a permanent record by allegory and inference of the stability of the monarchy in this country, by showing in historical succession round the Billiard Table, the principal links connecting Her Late Majesty, Queen Victoria, with William the Conqueror, and thus inferentially with Charlemagne from whom William the Conqueror was himself descended:

The Panels, in which are allegorised the principal Colonies and Dependencies, to illustrate the wealth, diversity, and breadth, of the British Empire”

This unique ‘black walnut’ billiard table by Orme and Sons Ltd was a masterpiece commissioned for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Exhibition in

1887.  

Every side is beautifully carved in high relief with references to the industrial growth and cultural variety encompassed  by the fifty years of her reign, which coincided with the Golden Age of the British Empire. 

 It was sold from the Exhibition in 1887 to Hamar Bass Esq, of the famous brewing family, for the princely sum of 1,000 guineas!

The cushion friezes are decorated with ribbons of quotations from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Scott, and Byron entwined with over fifty species of wild flowers and native British birds. Beneath this are two long and six short panels depicting numerous countries through allegory, flora, fauna and industry.  Between the panels, above each leg, are portrait figures of William of Normandy, Henry I, Henry II, John, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Edward IV, Elizabethof York, James I and Charles I.