18th Century and Earlier Console Tables

Louis XV Style Patinated Console With Its Marble

A Fabulous Pair of 18th Century George III Hand-Carved Gilt-Wood Demi-lune Console Tables w/ Painted Floral Still Life Tops. Each top elaborately hand-painted with Floral Still Life ...

18th century French Louis XV Walnut Console Table with Hoof Feet & Marble Top.

Attractive Late 18th century Italian neoclassical inlaid games table with double swing back legs to fold over top. Great color and quality walnut veneers.

Simple and elegant table hand-crafted in Italy in the early 1700s using walnut and dovetailed construction. This is a beautiful specimen of early tables built to last centuries. Don'...

An Italian wood console table, approximately 7.75 feet in length, from the 18th century. This antique table from Italy has a long, rectangu...

George I entry table made in England in the early 1700s using oak and pegged construction. This is a beautiful and old piece that is in fantastic shape and ready to be used on a dail...

Finely carved Italian 18th century ivory painted console tables with a Siena Marble painted scalgliola top. Originally the table was gilded. Very good vintage condition. Provenia...

Directoire Period Marble Top Rosewood French Console with bronze mounts from the Late 18th Century. The Directoire Console has a hand chiseled marble top mounted with a bronze galler...

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...

Rare painted console, with painted and gilt decoration painted in the style of Angelica Kauffman, Circa 1790-- 39.5" wide x 20" deep, 32" high.. Having wonderfully designed Neo-Clas...

An Italian console table, or desk, with single board top and trestle legs from the 18th century. This antique chestnut wood farm table from Italy...

A fine pair of elegant Italian carved giltwood console tables, Roman, circa 1770. Each with a rectangular back, grey "Lumachella" marble top, geologically interesting, made from lumachella. It is derived from the Italian word for “snail” (lumaca) and is largely composed of marine fossil...

Amazing pair of 18th century French carved pine and gesso Louis XV style consoles. Very fine carving on this pair. Bleached look goes well with a variety of decors. So pretty!

A late 18th century Italian trestle table with iron stretcher. This antique table from Italy features a rectangular-shaped top from a single piece of walnut wood, which is raised upo...

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

A pretty Italian neoclassical cream and grey painted console table, the Breche d'Alep marble top supported by a highly carved painted base with a ...

Lovely 18th century French hand-carved walnut console. Having wonderfully carved reticulated frieze in acanthus leaf motif, beautiful thick Rouge du Maine marble top, and resting on ...

Exceptional circa 1760 Irish Chippendale mahogany slab or side table having breccia pernice marble top surmounting carved geometric interlacement band frieze with central carved 'cel...

18th Century Venetian Rococo Wall-Mounted Console, hand-painted with gold leaf edged scalloped top, cabriole legs and rare fossilized marble top. Circa 1765.

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

Pair of terra cotta console tables in three parts. Probably Italian. neoclassical in Egyptomania era.

French Louis XVI Acajou marble top one drawer demilune console table with brass fluting, bronze mounts and turned and tapered supports.

George III mahogany silver table with pierced gallery and apron on cluster column supports.