Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Painted Console with Marble Top

Late 18th Century Italian Painted and Parcel Gilt Neoclassical Console with Veneered Marble Top, ca. 1790

Large Italian silvered Rococo console with sienna marble top with serpentine form, carved frieze with pierced shell, acanthus leaf detail and cabriole legs. William Word fine Ant...

Console tables are beautiful, graceful tables that also serve a practical purpose. These tables are aligned against a wall, often between two windows and/or placed beneath a mirror. You might find accessories or artwork resting on the marble or wooden tops. During the Regence period, these tables would often be painted to match the colors of the wood paneling of the walls, indicating that this console table came from an opulent room. Hand-carved in Italy during the 1700’s, the wood has a lacquered white finish with gilded highlights. The rouge royal marble from Belgium has white and gray veining and light inclusions with a quarter round finish on three sides (like most consoles, the backside is typically left unpainted or raw – as this is the side that abuts the wall). Beneath the thick marble are four cabriole legs with pied-de-biche (deer’s foot...

A Late 19th Century Table in the Rococo style, hand painted in the Venetian style. This Italian, table which could also be used as a desk features finely, hand-carved, scroll-work ac...