17th Century Side Tables

This 17th century walnut Italian table with iron stretcher has a fantastic patina and elegant curves.

A seventeenth-century buffet with traces of old painting, from the private collection of Professor José Herman Saraiva, would be a piece of antique furniture of Portuguese origin, dating from the seventeenth century and that presents indications of ancient painting on its surface. Professor José Herman Saraiva is a figure known for his academic work and the private collection he owned. The term "buffet" refers to a type of furniture used to store tableware, such as cutlery, plates, glasses, among others, and that can have a decorative function in the dining room or other areas of the house. Seventeenth-century buffets often feature design features and woodworking techniques of the time, such as elaborate carvings, turned feet, carved wood details, and metal handles, among other decorative elements. The presence of traces of old paint on the surface of the buffet may indicate that the piece was originally painted or lacquered, which was common in antique furniture for wood protection or aesthetic purposes. The old paint may have been applied in one or more layers, and the remaining traces may...

An Attractive 17th Century English Oak Side Table of Small Size and Good Colour. Circa 1680. This piece is a great example of a provincial oak side table from the late 17th century....

French 18th century Louis XV small Marquetry side table, a so-called "Table Chiffonière" with removable Silk Screen A rectangular body with canted corners on cabriole legs holding t...

This characterful table is of rare narrow depth of 39cm. It is characteristic of Spanish Baroque furniture with a thick single piece top, simple bold chip carved ornament and bold turnings. It has a rich lustrous patina. The thick single plank walnut top with fine figuring. The front fitted with two short drawers decorated with chip carving...

Offered is this stunning and unique early 17th-century antique drop-leaf / side table with a beautiful patina. This rare and highly original early 17th-century table has developed a...

Table. Walnut wood, iron. Spanish school, Guadalajara, 17th century. Table with a rectangular and smooth top, four spheres under the four legs (these joined by chambranas that start...

17th Century solid yew wood side table having a plank top with moulded edges. A single frieze drawer with brass handles and escutcheons. Raised on very nice, well turned legs and the...

A fine 17th century English oak side table with a lovely well-patinated two plank moulded top with with flying overhangs above a s...

Carved to exceptional naturalistic effect, the base of the present console table takes the shape of a pear tree entwined with vines, its roots firmly planted in a grassy knoll, lush with vegetation. With shaped Breccia Capitolina marble top. The fashion for such tables had been initiated in seventeenth-century Italy by the preeminent artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), who – whilst primarily celebrated as a sculptor – was also active as a painter and as a furniture designer. As observed by scholar Alvar González-Palacios, it is amply recorded that “Bernini took punctilious care with the supports of his statues”, including for the pedestal of his renowned Apollo and Daphne in Rome’s Villa Borghese. In about 1617, Bernini carved a Carrara marble figure of the martyred Saint Lawrence that is considered by many a masterpiece of his early career, visible today in Florence’s Palazzo...

Highly unusual ebonized side / console table. A tour-de-force of bobbin-turned legs and stretchers supporting a two-board top. The black ebonizing beautifully worn off at the more ex...

Walnut Renaissance three-drawer chest with raised panels on the drawer fronts and 17th century brass drawer pulls and escutheons. We believe this piece to be a modified prie dieu as ...

Elegant, 17th /early 18th-century, x-stretcher, oak Anglo-Dutch sidetable • Elegant sidetable injecting period charm into contemporary, modern or historic interiors • Fluid form ...

A Very Fine and Unusual 17th Century Spanish Walnut Table Of Excellent Colour. This rare table features a large overhanging planked top, which has acquired a beautiful bronze-like c...

Very decorative and charming pair of console tables of Italian origin, the wooden silvered and cream painted bases with cabriole legs and scrolling ornaments supporting a cheerfully ...

A chic vintage Boho side table. Gorgeous cerused team with a clotted design. Coordinating drum table also available on my Chairish page. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate

A very handsome pair of Italian 17th century walnut side tables from Luca. Each table is raised by topie shaped feet and most decorative turned legs connected by an X shaped stretche...

17th Century oak side table from England. The top is made from nicely grained planks and have a beveled edge, following down to simple side...

A fine Dutch walnut, kingwood and marquetry side table, the top late 17th-early 18th century and later, in the manner of Jan van Mekeren. With a later base, rectangular, inlaid with a design of a fruit basket and flowers surmounted by a bird, within a ground acanthus leaves, lozenge and flowerhead, cross-banded borders, long single drawer ensuite, tapering legs. Provenance: formerly the dressing table of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe.

A handsome pair of Italian 17th-century walnut, Vert Patricia, and Brocatelle d'Espagne marble side tables. The tables are raised on four turned legs and connected by a curved H-shap...

A English table from the reign of James II in oak having joined two-plank top with overhanging molded edge on straight front apron with single drawer having central knob pull, and sh...

A fine English pre-William-and-Mary, circa 1680 Charles II period side table of rectangular form, the moulded-edge parquetry top inlaid with Laburnum cross-section veneer or 'oysteri...

A remarkable 17th century English William and Mary oak table with a three-plank top over a plain frieze, and with tapered turned legs, turne...

Good 17th Century Italian walnut stretcher base table, the single walnut plank top with dovetailed cleats over single drawer having turned knob and standing on boldly turned legs joi...

An early English oak side table with lovely well-patinated three plank molded top with flying overhangs to sides above single drawer with two drop pulls surrounded by edge molding, o...

A very fine table with exquisite floral marquetry top with central urn of flowers surrounded by flowers and birds all within scrolling arabesques. Carved giltwood edge.Containing a f...

A Neoclassical gilt-wood table with marble top above a panelled frieze decorated with interlaced circles puntuated by carved leaves spaced by mouldings. The square tapered and fluted...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this really quite lovely hand made in Belgium circa 1670 Charles II oak single drawer side table Please not...

Lovely little Spanish table called tocinera in walnut from the Spanish Renaissance. Very beautiful little model which has a very beautiful base with a superb turning ending with bal...

George III Regency period mahogany sofa table in the manner of Thomas Chippendale the Younger. The rounded rectangular twin flap top cross banded in satinwood with two cedar lined frieze drawers inlaid with brass stringing on gilt metal mounted Egyptian channelled...

With a thick single board top over two carved panelled drawers flanking a geometric form panel, the drawers with nicely wrought iron handles and escutcheons, panelled sides, raised o...

An English 17th century oak boarded and joined clap front coffer or ark chest with later replacement hinged lid. Beautiful dark colour and deep patination...

Very charming alpine table of late Gothic design, the one plank top supported by sides ending in shoe feet with simple decoration, one drawer above a conn...

Walnut and marble table North of Italy, 17th century Wood and black marble H 80,5 x L 114 x P 58 cm This elegant table features a one single solid marble top directly mounted on f...

A beautiful Italian 17th century Tuscan st. Walnut desk/side table. The two drawer desk is raised by sleek rectangular tapered legs at a most decorative slanted angle connected by a ...

An Extremely Rare Pair of William and Mary Side Tables, with original Carrara Marble Tops Carefully stripped to reveal the scintilla remnants of the original black japanned surface;...

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...