Antiques games tables provided the wealthy, leisure classes a way to entertain indoors, particularly during cold inclement weather months when outdoor pursuits were limited.   Games tables have a wide range of styles: they can be plain or highly decorated, open from a square or a console form or be round, and contain playing areas for backgammon, chess, cribbage or cards.  Depending upon date of manufacture, their design tends to follow the favored styles of the period.