The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.
Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.
Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.
Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.
Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Elegant Italian 18th Century Giltwood Console Table
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant Nord Italian 18th century carved and giltwood console table with a painted faux marble top. The table with original gilding will be fully restored before delivery. Provenienc...
Giltwood
Massive and Elaborate Grand Entry Pier Mirror And Console
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An extraordinary and rarely seen antique console with dark stained and carved oak frame and very interesting sinuous form in a very interesting Grotto Style. The Mirror is large and ...
Oak
18th Century Spanish Baroque Writing Table/Console
Located in Round Top, TX
18th Century Spanish Baroque Carved Oak Writing Table / Console An exceptional and authentic 18th-century Spanish Baroque writing table, masterfully hand-carved in solid oak and ret...
Wood
A Rare 17/18 C. North Italian Scagliola Panel with Parrots, Peacocks, & Flowers
Located in New York, NY
A Very Rare and Incredible 17/18 (1600-1700's) C. North Italian Scagliola Panel with Parrots, Peacocks, Flowers, Vines, and More. A central roundel depicting a kneeling monk present...
Scagliola
17th/18th Century Italian Baroque Walnut Oval Dining / Center Drop-Leaf Table
Located in Troy, NY
17th/18th Century Italian Baroque Walnut Oval Dining / Center Drop-Leaf Table. Well developed, decorative Italian Baroque Drop-Leaf Table of Beautiful quality with a rich patina and...
Walnut
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17th C Style Italian Walnut Refectory Dining Table Natural finish In-Stock
Located in Encinitas, CA
Our classic Lira Style in a lighter finish: Old Walnut refectory dining table with sculpted edge & lyre-shaped bases, handcrafted in aged premium solid Italian walnut, floor mode...
Iron
Gilt console table with marble top - Veneto, mid-19th century
Located in Vicenza, IT
Elegant carved and gilded wooden console, of Venetian manufacture, datable to the mid-19th century, in the transitional period between Louis Philippe and Charles X. The cabinet has a...
Gold Leaf
Northern Italian Baroque Period Walnut 1-Drawer Console/Writing Table, 18th Cent
Located in Atlanta, GA
Of exceptional architectural presence, the molded rectangular top above a single frieze drawer raised on boldly cut lyre-form trestle supports joined by a pierced scroll stretcher te...
Walnut
Italian 19th Century Painted and Parcel Gilt Marble Top Console Table
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A dramatic 19th century Italian console table with an exquisite rococo giltwood base supporting its original, thick slab of Bardiglio marble. The monochromatic gray stone features de...
Marble, Gold Leaf
Spanish 17th Century Baroque Walnut Center or Console Table
Located in Troy, NY
Unique and rare table with unusual figural carved details, from northern Spain, probably Aragon. The single plank top above two lyre-shaped legs connected by shaped stretchers. A won...
Walnut
17th Century Spanish Baroque Walnut Table
Located in Essex, MA
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...
Walnut
Italian Baroque Farmhouse Dining Table
Located in London, Park Royal
Italian Farmhouse dinning Table with scrolled legs. Painted in two tones.
Wood, Paint
Italian 19th Century Walnut Baroque Style Fratino Table with Carved Lyre Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Baroque style walnut Fratino console table from the 19th century, with carved lyre-shaped trestle base, scrolling foliage motifs, iron...
Iron
Spanish 18th Century Single Plank Top Walnut & Iron Table
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A multi-purpose Spanish fratino table dating to the 18th century, made of walnut construction with a single plank on top and stretchers of wrought-iron. The broad, rectangular surfac...
Iron
19th Century Swedish Original Painted Pine Baroque Side Table with Drawer
Located in Round Top, TX
19th century Swedish Baroque side table, crafted in pine and retaining its original painted finish. The base shows residual black paint with much of the natural pine revealed through...
Pine, Paint
Antique table carved and gilded with gold leaf in Baroque Style
Located in Cesena, FC
Antique carved and gilded table in Baroque Style. Second half of the 1700s Beautiful and important living room, center table. Lacquered white with gold leaf trim, the top is shaped ...
Marble, Gold Leaf
Early 18th century German Baroque Walnut Center Table
Located in Troy, NY
Early 18th century German Baroque Walnut Center Table with unusual bold spiral turned legs, connected by flat box stretcher, standing on bun feet. Ou...
Walnut
pair of Italian Baroque Period patinated wood and Carrara marble consoles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive pair of Italian 18th century Baroque Period patinated wood and Carrara marble consoles. This wonderful pair of demi lune shaped consoles is raised by scrolled patinated...
Marble
19th Century Italian Table
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century Italian Table. Offered is a stunning Baroque style carved table from the late 19th century with an 18th century marble top from the Tuscany region of Italy. This lovely...
Marble
Spanish Baroque 18th Century Lyre Leg Wooden Trestle Table with Iron Stretcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Spanish baroque table with decorative forged-iron stretcher from the 18th century. This antique table from Spain features a rectangular-shaped top, which is raised upon a pair of fluidly-carved, lyre-shaped trestle styled legs at either end. The pair of trestles...
Iron
Baroque Style 19th Century Carved Gilt Wood Mirror and Matching Console
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A very impressive ensemble including a large Gilt Wood Mirror and a Gilt Console with Marble Top. Provenance: the Dodge estate near Tuxedo Park, NY. Both in matching elaborate Baroqu...
Marble
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Italian 18th Century Giltwood Console Table
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant Nord Italian 18th century carved and giltwood console table with a painted faux marble top. The table with original gilding we be fully restored before delivery. Provenienc...
Giltwood
Antique 18th century baroque Dressing Table with Mirror
Located in Doha, QA
“MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO’S THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL”? This ladies’ antique dressing table is elegant and playful. It decorated ...
Fruitwood, Walnut, Pine
Italian Baroque Style Walnut Table
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top with old crack over a trestle base with wrought iron stretchers. Old elements.
Walnut
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Italian Baroque Walnut Centre Table
Located in Essex, MA
Two board top over a frieze with applied corbels , square legs tapered and block turned joined by an X-form stretcher.
Walnut
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Antique Italian Console in Wood and White Marble
Located in Milano, IT
Antique Italian console from the late 1800s. The Italian console table is a very precious and elegant decorative element. It is made of white marble as a base, while its structure is...
Marble
A Long 17th Century Carved Oak Baluster Leg Table from Flanders
Located in Dallas, TX
At over nine feet long, this sumptuous oak baluster leg table was hand-carved with an H-stretcher in Flanders, circa 1680. Long tables such as these...
Oak
Swedish Baroque Style Oval Table from the Mid-20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish Baroque style mid-20th century oval table. This painted wood table features barley twist legs and a nicely shaped cross stretcher. The table is raised on ball feet. The sim...
Wood
Antique Baroque Marble Top Dining Table - 17th Century Style Solid Wood Base
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Stunning Antique Baroque Style Marble Top Dining Table. This elegant piece features a thin marble slab over a hand turned wood base. There is a yellow discoloration on the marble (as...
Marble
Italian Carved Gilt & Porphyry Side Table
Located in Locust Valley, NY
This Italian Carved Gilt & Faux Porphyry Side Table, crafted in the mid-20th century, features intricate carvings and a luxurious faux porphyry top. The gilded wood base adds an eleg...
Porphyry
Very Fine Pair of 18th Century Italian Walnut Baroque Consoles
Located in Hudson, NY
This fine pair of consoles are made in the Tuscan manner and come from Italy. Crafted in the late 18th century from walnut that has by now attained a great color and surface patina o...
Walnut
Franco-Flemish 17th Century Oak and Ebonized Console Table
Located in Troy, NY
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...
Oak
$14,500 / set
Pair of 19th Century Spanish Tables
Located in Chicago, IL
These are the kinds of tables designers spend years looking for and never find. Nineteenth century Spanish furniture occupies a category all its own. Less concerned with ornament th...
Wrought Iron
20th Century Spanish Baroque Style Cabinet on Stand, Bargueno or Varqueno
Located in Miami, FL
This Bargueno is embellished with a carving of Don Quixote de la Mancha bordered with branches of leaves. The desk is supported by a pedestal joined by a bridge of turned columns. Th...
Iron
An Italian 18th century Giltwood, Mecca, and marble wall bracket/console
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most unique Italian 18th century Baroque Period Giltwood, Mecca, and Breche D' Alep marble wall bracket/console. The wonderful wall mounted shelf/console has an intric...
Marble
Baroque oak table, crafted in Italy in 1760
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
Baroque oak Table, Italy 1760 This exceptional baroque table, crafted in Italy in 1760, represents the finest example of traditional craftsmanship....
Oak
Period Baroque Painted and Gilt Italian Table From the Estate of Cynthia Phipps
Located in Hudson, NY
This table crafted in carved painted and gilded wood was made in Italy, circa 1700. The style is fully Baroque and at one point may have had a specimen marble top. The present top is...
Wood
Italian 18th century Baroque st. Giltwood and Faux marble console
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and uniquely proportioned Italian 18th century Baroque st. Giltwood and Faux marble console. This handsome and rare narrow depth console is raised on mottled Giltwood ...
Giltwood, Paint
Pair of 18th Century Italian Walnut Demi-Lune 'Fratino' Console Tables
Located in London, GB
Pair of 18th Century Italian Walnut Fratino Demi-Lune Tables. Made to a very useful scale, working equally well as as centre table when placed together, or a pair of demi-lune conso...
Walnut
18th C. Swedish Period Baroque Table w/Stone Top- A Great Kitchen Work Table!
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish period Baroque stone top table from the early 18th century. This antique kitchen table from Sweden features it's original stone top, ...
Stone
Baroque Table, South German, 1760
Located in Belmont, MA
Beautiful baroque table or desk, made in Southern Germany or northern Switzerland 1760, cherry veneer with marquetry in plum wood and elm. The table is in very good refinished condit...
Cherry
19th Century Boulle Marquetry and Gilt Bronze Centre Table
Located in London, GB
This fine table is crafted in ebonised wood and features gilt bronze mounts and Boulle style marquetry. The table is of curved, oval shape, and is inlaid with marquetry to the top, a...
Ormolu, Brass, Bronze
Baroque Carved & Painted Table With Pietra Dura Marble Top
Located in Kent, Dover
An Italian Baroque heavily carved and distressed painted walnut centre table. With shell and acanthus detailing throughout, supporting a fine pietra dura marble top. The top in vario...
Marble
Baroque Side Table in Gray, 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small, elegant 18th-century side table featuring tall, gracefully curved S-shaped legs and a scalloped apron and tabletop. The newly applied dark gray and light brown finish has been...
Wood
Italian 17th Century Baroque Painted Walnut Centre Table
Located in Troy, NY
Strikingly decorative Venetian table of highly unusual and rare form, early 17th century. The oblong molded top enhanced with gilt decoration, above a double frieze with conforming ...
Wood, Walnut
18th Century Baroque Table
Located in Belmont, MA
Unique baroque table made around 1750 in South Germany. Exquisite marquetry in cherrywood, kingwood, walnut and elm. The marquetry depicts presentations of roman weapons and armor...
Wood
18th Century Italian Walnut Capretta Table With Barley Twist Legs
Located in Carmine, TX
Center table hand/made in central Italy in the early 1700s using walnut. This table is a show stopper, not only because of its beautiful color and patina, but also because of its ver...
Iron
Pair of Italian Baroque Style ' 19th Century' Gilt-wood Pedestals
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Baroque style (Roman, 19th century) giltwood pedestals carved with heavy acanthus leaves above an Apollo mask on lions paw feet.
Giltwood
18th Century Swedish Carved Pine Dowry Marriage Chest Trunk
Located in Fort Collins, CO
We were fortunate enough to get our hands on this remarkable late Baroque Swiss hand-carved dowry chest. Featuring high-relief filigree carvings and beautiful blacksmith forged iron ...
Iron
Spanish Chestnut Centre Table
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top over inverted legs joining a box stretcher with serrated edge, scroll feet.
Wood
Pair of 18th Century Italian Walnut Demi Lune Consoles With Lyre Legs
Located in Carmine, TX
Demi-lune consoles hand-made in Italy in the late 1700s using pegged construction. The pair of tables has gorgeous lines and beautiful color, and can be used as console tables agains...
Walnut
Portuguese Buffet Table 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
18th century Portuguese, in Brazilian rosewood, turned legs and beams. gilt copper hardware and applications. With one drawer simulating two. Small defects. Dimension: 47 x 68 x 43...
Wood
Italian 18th Century Baroque Period Walnut, Fruitwood, and Bone Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most decorative Italian 18th century Baroque period Walnut, Ebonized Fruitwood, giltwood, and bone side table. The one door, one drawer side table is raised by elegant lightly curved square tapered legs leading up to impressive ebonized fruitwood columns with giltwood plinths and capitals centering the door. The door displays a bronze pull and is richly decorated with stunning intricately detailed inlaid foliate designs centering a bearded man with a sword...
Bone, Fruitwood, Walnut, Giltwood
Italian Baroque Oval Fruitwood Veneered and Inlaid Desk, Late 17th/18th Century
Located in Troy, NY
Very unusual and rare Italian Baroque Desk, late 17th/18th century The oval, dark veneered top within an intricate border made of various woods, c...
Fruitwood, Walnut
Table, Walnut, Wrought Iron, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
table with hairpin clips. Walnut wood, wrought iron. Spain, 17th century. table made of carved and turned walnut wood with four A-legs, two wrought iron hairpin clips and drawers on...
Wrought Iron, Other
Swedish Period Baroque Carved-Wood Table, circa 1690-1720
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish period Baroque painted wood occasional table from the turn of the 17th and 18th century. This antique table from Sweden has a rectangular-shaped elm wood top with angular/c...
Wood
Baroque Gilt Wood Console Table, Southern Germany 18th Century
Located in Belmont, MA
This original 18th century Baroque console table stands out for its finely carved gilt wood details. It is the perfect little eye catcher for a smaller entryway. If you are looking for an eclectic mix of antique and new, you could easily add a contemporary painting or mirror above it, This exquisite little console table derives from Southern Germany. It shows the typical features of the 17th-18th century baroque design vocabulary. Consequently acanthus leaves and scrollwork embellish its otherwise symmetrical structure. It comes in original condition with the expected wear and tear and some retouches from earlier restorations and measures H 29.53 x W 25.99 x D 13.78 inches (H 75 cm x W 66 cm x D 35 cm). During the 17th century, the Baroque style had a marked effect upon furniture design throughout western Europe. Large wardrobes, cupboards, and cabinets had twisted columns, broken pediments, and heavy moldings. The Baroque style was adopted in the Low Countries in the 1620s and extended late into the 17th century, when Germany and England began to develop it. In southern Germany the French influence on furniture design was more prominent than in the western or northern parts, where Dutch and English styles were predominant. The big centers for the production of south German Baroque furniture...
Giltwood
A Rare 19th Century Inlaid Table by Ferdinando Pogliani
By Ferdinando Pogliani
Located in GB
A truly stunning Italian inlaid table with intricately drawn pen work to the sides and top by renown Cabinetmaker Ferdinando Pogliani. It has a st...
Ivory, Tortoise Shell, Ebony
Italian 19th Century Baroque Giltwood and Marble Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational Italian 19th century Baroque giltwood and marble coffee table. The table is raised by impressive and most decorative scr...
Marble
Italian 18th Century Baroque St. Giltwood and Sarrancolin Marble Console
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A magnificent Italian 18th century Baroque st. giltwood and Sarrancolin marble console. The freestanding console is raised by elegant cabriole legs with graceful fluted feet and rich...
Marble