18th Century and Earlier Console Tables

A sensational and most elegant true pair of Italian 18th century Baroque Period Giltwood, patinated Wood, and Sienna marble consoles. Each truly stunning freestanding console is rais...

A fine Italian 18th century giltwood carved console with the original marble top.

A wonderful pair of silver gilt Neapolitan late 18th Century carved wood console tables. The silver gilding now worn to a beautiful subtle tone of pewter. The pierced apron with sc...

Dimensions: OAD: 23.5″ OAW: 74″ OAH: 36″

This is an absolutely stunning French monastery table. This table dates to 1705 as is evident by the hand carved numbers on the front. This piece wears its age beautifully with every...

A stunning pair of Italian 18th century Baroque giltwood, faux painted marble and polychrome freestanding consoles. Each console is raised by an elegant square faux painted green mar...

A handsome Italian 18th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany and Scagliola console, from Tuscany. This beautiful freestanding rectangle console is raised by slender tapered fluted legs wit...

Tall, stately, hand-carved, walnut console table with large center drawer. Original marble top. The whole on turned and fluted legs.

Pair of rare, unusual, early 18th century parquetry veneered center or side tables of very conceptual design, having geometrical Trompe-l'Oeil inlaid tops over a frieze containing on...

This superb figured walnut games table has trefoil style corners to the fronts and is elegantly raised on carved cabriole legs, terminating on carved ball and claw feet, witch retain...

A Dutch carved blue and white painted limewood ‘kwab’ console or side table. Northern Netherlands, circa third quarter 17th century. Console table with oblong white veined marble table...

17th Century Spanish walnut tressle table. Hand forged iron stretcher. Provenance: Tobler Chocolate Estate at George Subkoff.

Large Louis XV painted wood corner console with simulated marble top. PBI-CRIM25.

18th century LXV Italian console, impressively proportioned, featuring a statement, Breche Violet, bevelled marble top which makes a striking contrast to the naturally aged pistachio...

A beautiful and most unique Italian 18th century neo-classical st. walnut, giltwood, and Sienna marble console, from Luca. The demi-lune shaped freestanding console is raised by eleg...

Impressive Louis XV centre table of generous proportions. The elaborately carved walnut base is 18th century. The top was replaced, circa 1900s with a serpentine top of Vert des Alpe...

Very beautiful Louis XV style carved and lacquered beech planter with its original zinc. Very beautiful decorative element

A handsome and finely detailed French 18th century Regence st. Breccia Nuvolata Rosa Marble and Oak console. This freestanding Oak table is raised by four rounded cabriole legs decor...

A beautiful and most decorative Italian 18th century Louis XVI period patinated, giltwood and Fleur de Pécher marble freestanding console. The console is raised by topie shaped feet ...

A handsome pair of French 18th century Louis XV period oak and marble consoles. Each wall mounted console is raised by fine block feet below scrolled movements and carved acanthus leaves. Connecting each elegantly scrolled leg is a pierced stretcher centered by foliate movements and smooth cabochons. Above each leg are carved corner designs centering the impressive pierced reserves at the arbalest shaped frieze. Each reserve displays a different family crest flanked by richly carved dogs...

A charming and most elegant French 18th century Louis XVI period patinated wood and Bleu Turquin marble console. The demi lune shaped freestanding console is raised by lovely circula...

An exceptional French 18th century Régence period giltwood and Sienna marble console circa 1720. The wall mounted console is raised by elegant and most decorative scrolled tapered legs with fine block feet below beautiful acanthus leaves and delicate finely carved blooming flowers leading to striking intricately detailed palmettes at each corner. The legs are connected by a striking stretcher with impressive acanthus leaves centering a lovely pierced foliate reserve and a superb lattice background. The frieze displays stunning pierced swaging blooming flower garlands tied at each side by fine ribbons and topie finials leading to large richly carved flowing acanthus leaves below an exceptional and extremely decorative lattice...

These tables feature beautiful specimen marble tops which were crafted in Italy in the 18th century. The tops are inlaid with a variety of marble types, cut into diamond-shaped block...

Ornate baroque carved giltwood console with foliage and scroll ornaments raised on shaped out-stepped plinth, Italian, 18th century.

An elegant and charming pair of French 18th century Louis XVI period wall mounted giltwood and marble consoles. Each console is raised by square topie designed feet below fine lightl...

Beautiful Spanish Chestnut table with 3 drawers, one piece wood table top, 6 turned legs and simply carved panels at the back and the side of th...

This antique Swedish table circa 1790 provides unique charm. Its one drawer features intricate carvings.

A very attractive and high quality Italian late 18th century giltwood freestanding console. The fluted tapered legs have richly carved acanthus le...

A striking French 18th century Régence Period giltwood and marble console. The console is raised by handsome cabriole legs with foliate movements and fine floral carvings at each cor...

A most elegant and high quality Italian mid 18th century Louis XV period walnut console. The freestanding console is raised by beautiful slender cabriole legs with hoof feet and char...

A very decorative and unique Italian 18th century Louis XVI period patinated console with a Portor marble top. The console is raised by two handsome supports with square bases and ti...

A beautiful and unique French 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood and Brèche d'Alep marble console. The freestanding console is raised by handsome and most decorative paw feet bel...

A remarkable and unique Italian 18th century Louis XIV period mecca and patinated mirror and marble console from a Genovese Carpenteria. The mirror is raised on a slim faux marble pa...

A most elegant French 18th century Regence period giltwood and Rouge Griotte marble console. The wall mounted console is raised by beautiful scrolled foliate feet below the striking ...

A stunning Italian 18th century Louis XV period giltwood and Sienna marble console. This wall mounted console is raised by two most attractive cabriole legs with hoof feet and striki...

An exquisite Italian 18th century Genovese st. giltwood and soapstone console. The freestanding console is raised by impressive richly decorated cabriole legs with scrolled acanthus ...

Continental Rococo Walnut Parquetry Chest on Stand Circa 1750, North Italian or South German. The serpentine molded top with walnut and fruitwood cube parquetry, the case with two d...

German console handcarved in wood with Cordoban top.

Freestanding Danish Louis XVI table, in original painting with faux marble top, circa 1780.

A Magnificent 18th Century Irish Walnut Console Table, with Irish Kilkenny Marble Top With bold and handsomely carved oak leaves and acorn across the apron, and enormously character...

An Impressive Mid 18th Century Carved Giltwood Console Table, in the manner of Kent Carefully dry stripped to reveal the soft lustre of the original gilt surface, the table has exce...

A George II White Painted Console Table The original breche violette top, of serpentine form, sits above a handsomely carved Vitruvian scroll fri...

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...

Spectacular long, rustic and very decorative Elizabethan Refectory table, well suited as console or library table or for casual dining. The...

Attractive, rare Renaissance trestle table of typical, bold design and beautiful rich color. Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.