18th Century and Earlier Console Tables

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

A most impressive Italian 18th century Louis XV period giltwood and Rouge Languedoc marble freestanding console from Naples. The console is raised by four elegant cabriole legs with ...

Outstanding Spanish Colonial 18th Century Presentation Hall Table Richly carved with motifs of shells, rocailles and scrolls. Arched sturdy leg...

A stunning and most impressive Italian 18th century Louis XV period giltwood and Alabastro Fiorito marble console. The freestanding console is raised by beautiful elegant cabriole le...

This exceptional Irish games table is as functional as it is beautiful. Crafted of Cuban mahogany, it serves as a console table when not in use, but the top folds out to reveal a gre...

A charming and most decorative French 18th century Louis XV period patinated wood and Rouge de Verone marble console. The freestanding console is raised by elegant cabriole legs with...

A striking Italian 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood and faux painted marble console. The freestanding console is raised by elegant tapered legs with fine reeded and half ball f...

A Fine Irish Mahogany Marble Top Console Table 18th Century With a rectangular marble insert over a finely carved frieze, all resting on cabriole legs ending in pad feet. He...

A good quality 18th century French carved giltwood, marble topped console table, having C scrolling foliate decoration, a shell central to the frieze, carved cabriole legs, united by...

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...

An exquisite and extremely elegant Italian 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood, polychrome, and white Carrara marble console. The freestanding console is raised by circular tapere...

Neoclassical hand carved, gilt wood console with a polished rouge marble top. The marble top has a carved molded edge, the frieze relief is carved with masks and rosettes and a pie...

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 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 fine neoclassical Russian fruitwood marquetry and parquetry games table from the late 18th century, probably Saint Petersburg. With a rectangular rotating and folding top, decorate...

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...

Hand carved, 2 piece, walnut console from the area of Tuscany.

Very elegant Italian console table, entirely hand-painted with a marble trompe-l'œil. The top is of trapezoidal shape, with the corners jutting out. The square, tapering baluster leg...

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 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...

The yellow and pink fossil marble top above a rocaille and foliate pierced apron on cabriole legs with scroll feet.

An extremely decorative pair of Italian 18th century Louis XVI period patinated and mecca consoles. Each console is raised by elegant square tapered fluted legs with fine carved feet...

A sensational and most unique Italian 18th century giltwood and faux painted marble freestanding console, from Tuscany. The console is raised by a striking wonderfully executed base with a brick like design and a Fine mottled border. At the center is a majestic carved Fleur de Lys reserve behind which the charming and richly carved putti stands...

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

A Fine Regence Polychrome Console Table First Quarter of the 18th Century The rectangular marble top with rounded corners and molded edge above a shell and foliate scroll carved cab...

An impressive Italian mid 19th century Louis XVI st. giltwood rectangular console. The console is raised S scrolled supports adorned with burnished acanthus leaves joined by a scroll...

A wonderful and most decorative Country French 18th century Régence Period painted and gilt console. The console is raised by four cabriole legs with carved hooves topped by gilt fol...

A wonderful and very decorative Italian 18th century Louis XV period patinated green and gilt freestanding console This lovely gilt trimmed console is raised on cabriole legs decorat...

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

A sensational Italian 18th century Louis XV period patinated wood and faux painted marble wall mounted console. The console is raised by a charming central foliate and floral reserve...

Hand carved oak console with serpentine front. Beautiful faux marble top in colors of rust and gold.

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

A hand-carved, solid walnut, single drawer, Tuscan console table. The top featuring it's original, marble slab sits above four tapering, turned le...

Attractive, rare Renaissance trestle table of typical, bold design and beautiful rich color. The table can be taken apart for shipping and ha...

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...