A Specimen Marble Top Centre Table

A fine Empire style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany centre table with a Vert de Mer marble top, in the manner of Jacob-Desmalter. The rectangular Verde Antico marble top sits above ...

An important and rare gilt-bronze, mahogany and Bois Satiné centre table, with campan rubané marble top. By François Linke. Linke index number 1103. The g...

An impressive Italian carved giltwood centre table with a Verde Antico marble top. Italian, circa 1860. The table has a shaped apron with diapered panels centred by an exubere...

A fine gilt-bronze mounted mahogany centre table with an onyx marble top by François Linke. Linke Index number: 118 Linke title: 'Table Louis XVI, bois d'acajou bronze dorés.' ...

A Napoleon III gilt-bronze and onyx centre table, By Maison Marnyhac, Paris. Signed to the edge of the stretcher 'MAISON MARNYHAC 1. RUE DE LA PAIX PARIS'. This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within stiff-leaf cast gilt-bronze border and guilloche patterned frieze. The legs modelled as female terms with arms crossed and holding atop their heads flower filled baskets. The lower part of the legs are formed as tapering pilasterrs joined by an elaborate loop stretcher with central platform. France, Circa 1865 This table is exemplary of the finest luxury furniture made during the opulent Second Empire period. The use of Algerian onyx-marble is especially indicative of this period as it was not until the 1840s that the quarries near Constantine in Algeria, then under French rule, which had been abandoned since antiquity, were rediscovered. Alphonse Pallu et Cie presented the stone at the Exhibition of Algerian Products in Paris in 1860 and established the Compagnie des Marbres Onyx...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted and parquetry inlaid centre table, by François Linke. Signed 'F. Linke' to the bronze rim. Stamped 'FL' to the reverse of the bronze mo...

Specimen marbles such as these brought to mind the ruined splendor of classical Rome that the 18th and 19th-century grand tourists encountered and indulged in. This tabletop was thus...

A Neoclassical pietra dura, micro mosaic and walnut centre table, the circular black marble top with a large central micro mosaic roundel depicting St Peter’s Square, Rome, surrounde...

An exceptional Regency walnut centre table with a specimen marble top on a bold well-carved four-splay base; perhaps by Gillows of Lancaster.

Antique Victorian quality circular specimen marble top lamp/centre table having a marvellous quality circular specimen marble top, mahogany frieze supported by an unusual turned maho...

This magnificent specimen centre table incorporates some incredible specimens highlighting the richest, deepest, and most vivid colours of the most coveted specimen marbles. This Ita...

Oversized, dramatic, octagonal, circa 1930 Tuscan, specimen marble table atop a painted, turned-leg base with X-stretcher.