One of the coolest billiard tables you’ll ever lay your eyes on is the unique black walnut billiard table by Orne & Sons Ltd. This masterpiece priced at $1.7 million was commissioned for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Exhibition in Manchester in 1887. The kind of attention paid to details has never been seen before on any billiard table. Talking history through its beautifully carved surface, the table has references to the industrial growth and cultural developments of the British Empire’s Golden Age. The cushions are decorated with ribbons of quotations from Victorian novelists like Shakespeare, Tennyson, Scott and Byron and the panels depict numerous countries through allegory, flora, fauna and industry including carved portraits of Normandy, Henry I, Henry II, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward II, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, James I and Charles I above each leg. With the table comes the matching cupboard, which can be rotated to form a scoreboard, shaped as a door carved with seven panels depicting her highness’s most important stages in the reign. The table is for sale at Harrods.
Via: Luxist
