Grand Tour Paestum Hall / Console Table

A truly exceptional carved console table after a design by Robert Adam. The profusely decorated table showing Adams delicate ornament to the full. Specialist aged gesso and paint evoking the ancient...

A finely carved and simulated cork decorated large writing table or desk with a thick glass top.

Paris console ebonised mahogany side table with full acanthus carved tapering legs supporting a marble top.

A Grand Tour inspired marble top console table, the marble top sits above a stepped frieze supported by eight finely turned tapering legs united with a platform base on turned bun de...

A fine Regency interlocking carved stylised dolphin convex mirror. Bespoke finishing available.

A fine carved wood console, the design taken from the 18th century dairy room at Ham House, Richmond, Surrey. The console with a generous 30mm marble top supported by three cows legs...

Sn5428 Victorian oak hall table of simple and elegant design, having oversailing top above shallow frieze, standing on S shaped supports with scrolled decoration terminating in platf...

Sn3294 Exceptional Regency console table- hall table in rosewood, having shaped shelf with shaped upstand, supported on elegant columns, figured rosewood top and slender supports wit...

Antique mahogany hall console table. Suitable as console, hall or lamp table etc... Maesure 24W x 12 D x 22H.

Elegant, stylish consul table made of solid brass Nicely oxidise patina , with beautiful marble quartz top . Could use indoor and definitely outdoor will not rust. great decorative...

A fabulous Edwardian bowfront mahogany console or hall table, of exceptional quality and finely carved with gorgeously rich patination and grain. The shaped and moulded top with a be...

Among the most beautiful examples of hardstone artistry that have ever entered our collection, these important Grand Ducal pietre dure console tables are in a class all their own. Their powerful architectural elegance, impressive size and rarity make them two of the finest hardstone masterpieces ever created and quite possibly the greatest pair of pietre dure tables in existence. With their naturalistically rendered flowers and birds, these tabletop panels showcase the particularly fine quality craftsmanship of the Grand Ducal workshops in Florence during the first quarter of the 17th century. Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici, one of the most important personages in the annals of art history, established the Grand Ducal Workshop in 1588. The workshop specialized in the art of pietre dure developed from the ancient art of opus sectile, giving rise to the most luxurious and detailed examples of hardstone artistry ever produced. Its patrons were the Popes and Royals of Europe, and the quality of the objects produced in the workshop is without equal. Typically, because of the high level of workmanship the art form requires, pietre dure plaques were crafted in small sizes. The great majority of known examples of pietre dure are a fraction of the size of our grand tables. The combination of pietre dure and extensive use of other rare decorative hardstones such as lapis lazuli and pietra paesina or “ruin marble” meant that these tabletops were surely produced for a wealthy collector. The tables are further distinguished by their superbly carved bases by Andrea Brustolon, known as the “Michelangelo of wood.” Brustolon was a Venetian wood sculptor known for his exuberant and intricate Baroque furniture. His high Baroque style was influenced by his years studying in Rome, where he was exposed to the sculpture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Crafted in the early 18th century, these bases display Brusolon’s unmatched talent for both figural and foliate work, combining cupids, masks and oversized scrolling vines for a grand, ornate effect. Similar furnishings by Brustolon are held in museums worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Museum of Scotland and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the Ca' Rezzonico Museum in Venice features an entire room dedicated to the sculptor. For approximately 150 years, these tables were part of the famed Stoneleigh Abbey collection owned by the Lord Leigh family. This renowned English country estate inspired Jane Austen to write Mansfield Park. Lord Leigh eventually sold the tables at Christie’s London in 1962, and the pair have stayed in the collection of the same Florentine family who purchased them from Christie's until we recently acquired them. Our tables are prominently pictured in the important Saul Levy book Il Mobile Veneziano del Settencento. The pietre dure plaques date circa 1625-1650. The decorative tops likely would have originally been sold with a pair of plain stone columns to display them, and Lord Leigh would have commissioned the custom bases from Brustolon circa 1714 when he added the impressive four-story fifteen-bay Baroque West Wing to Stoneleigh Abbey. A similar single Grand Ducal tabletop is in the United Kingdom’s National Trust Collection, and a smaller tabletop resides in Buckingham Palace. The flower and bird panels in our examples relate to the famous Badminton Cabinet...