19th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables

This a very large Southeast Asian patinated cast bronze rain drum or frog drum. The intended use of the rain drum was ceremonial and was used to invoke rain and serve as an instrum...

A beautiful Continental 19th century Louis XIV st. ormolu, patinated bronze, Alabastro and black Belgian marble coffee table. The rectangular coffee table is raised by six elegant an...

An exceptional and most elegant French late 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze, ormolu and white Carrara marble coffee table. The two tier rectangular table is raised by...

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...

An outstanding and extremely decorative French 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze, ormolu, faux painted marble, and Sarrancolin marble cocktail/coffee table. The circula...

A Napoleon III Etagere 'japonism' in ormolu and grave glass Modeled as rods of bamboo mounted with bamboo leaves on the legs, the top suspended with four handles and with three circular tiers each engraved with floral and ivy designs and surrounded by a three-quarter pierced gallery, the upper tier signed 'ALPH. GIROUX PARIS...

A very handsome French 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated verdigris bronze and marble coffee table. The coffee table is raised by four striking verdigris bronze legs with impre...

A fine Louis Philippe mirror topped coffee table with a tall ornate gilt-bronze lip surrounding the top decorated with grape clusters, leaves, sunflowers and winged lions, all raised...

19th Spanish bronze and brass gilded side table with red marble top Beautiful bronze reliefs in the base of the top and ornamental motifs in the three pedestal leg