Empire Tables
EMPIRE STYLE
From 1804–15, Napoléon I reigned as the emperor of France, bringing the country into a new era of opulence after the fall of the monarchy and the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. He declared, “We must have very solid things, made to last 100 years.” Empire-style furniture followed suit, with imposing pieces constructed from mahogany and adorned with gilded ornaments. Expanding on the neoclassicism popularized in the previous century — such as in Louis XVI style — Empire style borrowed from the great civilizations of antiquity, from Egypt to Greece and Rome, to connect this nascent empire to the power of the past.
Napoléon I believed the production of fine furniture would reflect the stature of the republic, with his official architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine leading the way with their work on his residences.
Luxurious materials, symmetrical shapes and bold colors characterize antique Empire-style bedroom furniture, armchairs, cabinets and other structures, with frequent motifs including mythological creatures, geometric designs, acanthus leaves, eagles, bees (the imperial emblem) and swans, a favorite of Empress Joséphine.
Flat surfaces, like marble tabletops, were accented with decadent details, such as the bronze furniture mounts made by sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire for the French palaces. Martin-Guillaume Biennais, who worked as the imperial goldsmith, crafted intricate luxury objects that mixed wood, fine metal, mother-of-pearl and ivory. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
The style became popular abroad, influencing the American Empire style. Stately pieces carved with sprigs of olives by cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange were acquired by American President James Monroe for the White House in 1817.
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Style: Empire
Empire Style Glass Top Ebonized Wood Side Table
Located in Astoria, NY
French Empire Style Circular Glass Top Ebonized Wood Side Table, three tapered legs terminating in brass paw feet on trefoil base. 25" H x 23.75" Diameter. Provenance: From an Upper ...
Category
20th Century Empire Tables
Materials
Brass
Side table blue scagliola top metal base handmade in Italy by Cupioli available
Located in Rimini, IT
This table can be used as tea table, side table, lamp table it has multiple uses.
The top is manufactured in scagliola art inlay, same technique of the "Paliotto" of the 16th century...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Empire Tables
Materials
Iron
French Empire Style Mahogany Dressing Table
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This exceptional French 19th century Empire mahogany dressing table is complete with its original mercury glass mirror and charcoal and white marble top. The arched mirror displays s...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
Especially beautiful Side Table, Pillar Commode Trumeau, Empire, ~1810-15, Italy
Located in Wien, AT
Beautiful pillar commode, trumeau - an original of the Empire era, made around 1810-15, in Italy.
This piece of furniture has a wonderfully classic shape, with a base, a round body...
Category
1810s Italian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Square French Empire Brass Swans and Wrought Iron Coffee Table
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
French Empire style coffee table with inset beveled glass top on metal base with swans.
Category
20th Century French Empire Tables
Materials
Metal
Weiman Heirloom Italian Regency Empire Mahogany Side Table w/ Black Columns
By Weiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Weiman Heirloom Italian Regency/Empire Style Flamed Mahogany Side Table with Black Columns, Satinwood Inlay, and Dovetailed Drawer. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 24" ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Restored Empire Side Tables, Yew-Tree, Revived Polish, Austria 1820s
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
This elegant pair of console tables, designed on the border of Empire and Biedermeier, comes from Austria from the early 19th century. They are made of yew veneer and have undergone ...
Category
1820s Austrian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Lacquer, Wood, Yew
Vintage French Empire Style Mahogany Paw Feet Side Tables, a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Empire Style Mahogany Paw Feet Side Tables - a Pair. Item features a claw foot tripod pedestal base, lower shelf, beautiful woodgrain,...
Category
Early 20th Century Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Restored Empire Small Table, Mahogany, Cherry Wood, Lacquer, France, 1840s
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
This elegant round classicist table comes from France from the mid-19th century. It is made of a combination of cherry and mahogany veneer with inlay and has brass fittings. The tabl...
Category
1840s French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Lacquer, Wood, Cherry
French 19th century Empire St. Mahogany, Ormolu and Mirror planter/console
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and most unique French 19th century Empire St. Mahogany, Ormolu and Mirror planter/console. This exquisite freestanding elongated demi lune console is raised by on thick f...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Empire Style Walnut Side Table or Nightstand
Located in Winter Park, FL
A fine 19th century French Empire style side table or nightstand made of solid walnut and veneer of walnut and finished on all four sides. Expertly crafted tambour door made of preci...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
Empire Writing Table, probably Vienna around 1800
Located in Greding, DE
Small Empire work table with partly gold-patinated, curved caryatid legs and walnut veneered body. The table is inlaid with wonderful fire-shaded floral bands decorated with ink pain...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Leather, Walnut
19th Century Empire Console Italy 1810 Marble Top Bronze Fittings
Located in Epfach, DE
19th Century Empire Console Tuscany Italy 1820 Marble Top Bronze Fittings
This extraordinary Empire console from Italy around 1820 combines elegance, master craftsmanship and histori...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Empire Demilune Flip-Top Consoles by Ira Yeager
By Ira Yeager
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Opulent pair of 19th century French empire demi-lune console tables or round dining tables with a flip top that has been faux-marble lacquered on top by artist Ira Yeager (American 1...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique French Empire Neoclassical Round Marble Top Eagle Carved Center Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Empire Neoclassical Round Marble Top Eagle Carved Center Table. Item features a round marble top with raised edge, gold gilt eagle heads, lower shelf, ebonized finish,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Russian Baltic Brass Bound Marble Top Empire Style Center Occasional Table
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
For customers that require professional insured delivery we are proud to have teamed up with a nationwide professional delivery company that will assist with coordinating your delive...
Category
1870s Russian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
Transforming Table by Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Consulat Period, France circa 1
By Martin Guillaume Biennais
Located in New York, NY
Transformation table, on high square pointed legs with brass sabots and curved table top including intermediate shelf with gilded gallery rail. The middle part of the table top can b...
Category
Early 1800s French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Brass
Empire Style Mahogany Table with Inset Fossilized Marble Top
Located in Spencertown, NY
The circular table with contrasting marquetry of star decoration on the outer rim and then stylized greek key below it
with a black fossilized marble top with white highlights. Slig...
Category
20th Century German Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
19th Century French Empire Green Marble Top Carved Mahogany Console Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique console in an entry or hallway. Crafted in France, circa 1880, and built of mahogany wood, the console stands on scrolled front legs ending in paw feet, wi...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Empire Style Gilt Bronze Gueridon Table
Located in New York, NY
Very finely cast Empire style gilt bronze gueridon table with swan motif.
Category
20th Century French Empire Tables
Materials
Bronze
Baltic Empire Style Writing Table or Desk, circa 1910 in Mahogany
Located in Miami, FL
A very fine Baltic writing or sofa table in the Empire style (and edging toward the Art Deco period that would follow.) In Cuban mahogany with carved trestle-base ending in carved li...
Category
1910s Baltic Vintage Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Irish Cuban Mahogany Acanthus Carved Sideboard. Circa 1840
Located in Charleston, SC
Irish Cuban mahogany three drawer sideboard with carved scrolled gallery, gadrooned molded edge, carved eagle heads, flanking lower cabinets, original brasses, and terminating on acanthus carved...
Category
1840s Irish Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Brass
French Empire Mahogany and Mirrored Console Table
Located in Queens, NY
French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany & bronze trimmed console table with scroll form sides and a drawer over a mirrored door with a grey marble top.
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Coffee table from the 1920s, France.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Antique coffee table from the early 20th century, France.
Furniture in very good condition, after professional renovation.
Dimensions: height 73 cm / width 78 cm / depth 49 cm
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Mahogany Gueridon Table
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century French mahogany gueridon table having circular moulded grey marble top raised on reeded turned tapering column and scrolled leaf-carved tripod base ending on bo...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Antique Swedish Neoclassical Late Empire Pedestals
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of antique Empire Neoclassical Swedish pedestals painted ebony with gold accents.
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Wood
Walnut and Gray Marble Empire Console, circa 1880
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Walnut and gray marble Empire console, circa 1880. Carved legs with leaf curved design on front legs and reeded legs in back.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Rectangular Coffee Table with Inlaid Top + Gold Leaf Finish, Made in Italy
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Modenese Gastone is specialized in providing the highest quality standards to its VIP clients. This low coffee table features a hand-inlaid top surface with mother-of-pearl elements that expresses the finesse of the brand's skilled artisans. Such a piece is most suitable in classic living rooms...
Category
2010s Italian Empire Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf
French Empire Style Mahogany and Bronze Griffins Table Desk
Located in Queens, NY
French Empire style (19th Century) mahogany and bronze trimmed 2 drawer table desk with stretcher, griffins, and green marble top.
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Empire Bronze Lion End Tables
Located in Queens, NY
French Empire style bronze end table with 4 legs ending in lion heads holding rings with a round inset black marble top and shelf.
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Provencal Early 19th Century Empire Extendable Table Solid Walnut
Located in Vigonza, Padua
French Provencal early 19th century empire extendable table solid walnut
This extendable Empire table from the early 19th century enhances the the...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Swedish Empire Center Table
Located in Essex, MA
Circular top with wood edge surrounding a geometric mosaic of hard stones raised on a triangular tapered column and tripartite base with gilded scroll feet. From the estate of Willia...
Category
1820s Swedish Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Neoclassical Empire Marble Top Pedestal Table
By John Stuart, Henredon
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Beautiful black table with gilt accent details on the tripod base as feet. Versitile as it can be in a center hall, game table or an intimate dining table. Wonderful detailed car...
Category
20th Century Unknown Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
19th Century, French Wood Travel Desk
Located in IT
19th Century, French Wood Travel Desk
Measures: cm H 103 x W 52 x closed D 9. Open D 59 cm
This particular travel desk was made in France, in the earl...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Wood
Napoleon III pedestal with clock
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Napoleon III pedestal with clock
Onyx marble column and champleve enamel with golden bonce
The watch has very fine machinery and is stamped Vincenti y Cia 1855
The machinery works
Ci...
Category
1870s French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
19th Century French Empire Marble Top Bronze Ormolu Paw Feet Console Hall Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th Century French Empire Marble Top Bronze Ormolu Paw Feet Console Hall Table. Finely cast bronze ormolu, paw feet, gold gilt accents, bronze inlay,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Empire Neoclassical Cornucopia Base Round Pink Marble Top Coffee Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Empire Neoclassical Style Marble Top Coffee Table. Item features a triple cornucopia carved wood base, pink round marble-top, off white original painted finish and rol...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Empire Tables
Materials
Marble
Antique Leather Top Austrian Empire Desk
Located in London, GB
A stunning and very rare antique leather top Austrian Empire desk, dating from around the 1830-1850 period.
This has a beautiful and very useful design, the quality is outstanding. ...
Category
1830s Austrian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
19th Century French Empire Demilune Console Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
A French Empire demilune console table with a pair of large hand-carved mahogany swans. Good craftsmanship and beautiful stylized sculptural swans wit...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Empire Style Gold Leaf Library Table / Desk
Located in Houston, TX
This 19th Century Empire Style Gold Leaf Library Table/Desk is a truly exquisite piece of furniture that exudes timeless elegance and sophistication. Crafted in the opulent Empire st...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique table with chairs, Northern Europe, around 1870.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Antique table and chairs from the late 19th century, Northern Europe.
Furniture in very good condition, professionally renovated. Chair seat...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Walnut
Mid 19th century birch root occasional table
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century birch root occasional table circa 1860.
Good quality Swedish birch root table, solid burr birch circular top, standing on shaped stem and scrolled legs.
Rich golde...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Birch
French Empire Antique Burl Walnut Center Table with Black Marble Top, circa 1815
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURL WALNUT CENTER TABLE
With an original dished black marble top; France, circa 1815
Item # 101OPB21A
A very fine Empire center table crafted of beautifully patinated burl walnut veneers over secondary woods, the table retains its original black marble top. This was turned to create the dished top with an integral raised rim.
Over each of the three columns is a honeysuckle gilded bronze mount, each pillar...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
19th Century Original Rare British Dinning Room Set with 12 Chairs, Satin Wood
By Joseph Fitter
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
Individual items are not for sale separately.
A very popular supplier and manufacturer of furniture, Maple & Co.
It is a perfect example of the English aristocracy and is still in great demand.
The whole set is remarkable in that it has been kept intact this entire time, including the original 12 chairs at the table.
The table has a rare unfolding system with two double action screw table expanders. One person alone can easily unfold the table by turning the handle.
The system is patented by the company Joseph Fitter...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Leather, Upholstery, Satinwood, Lacquer
Pair Empire End Tables Walnut Black Columns Vintage Regency
By Henredon
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Great pair of Empire Style end tables with brass collared black columns and bun feet. Beautiful bookmatched veneer on top surfaces with medallion corners....
Category
Mid-20th Century Empire Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of Italian Empire Period Walnut Demilune Console Table with Mirror
Located in Firenze, IT
This beautiful antique early 19th century Italian Empire demilune console tables with mirrors in rich brown walnut wood and black ebonized wood with gilt accents come from a villa in...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Mirror, Mercury Glass, Wood, Walnut
French Empire Figural Bronzed Metal & Glass Center Table with Ram's Heads 20th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
A French Empire figural center table offers glass top over cast and bronzed base in triangular form having reeded legs with rams head capitals and hoof feet, stretchers with crossed ...
Category
20th Century Empire Tables
Materials
Metal
Pair of French 19th Century Empire St. Mahogany, Ormolu and Marble Consoles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most impressive pair of French 19th century Empire st. Mahogany, ormolu, and Vert de Patricia marble consoles. Each freestanding one drawer two tiered console is raise...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Baker Furniture Empire Burl and Cherry Wood Coffee Table, Newly Refinished
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Empire or neoclassical style coffee table
By Baker Furniture
USA, Circa 1980s
Cherry wood, with burl wood banding and satinwood string inlay.
Measures: 38" W x...
Category
Late 20th Century American Empire Tables
Materials
Cherry, Satinwood, Burl
Antique Decorative Swedish Cast Iron Garden Table
Located in Kastrup, DK
Decorative Swedish cast iron garden table. C 1860-1880
Painted leg formed as griffins.
Made in decorative style and high quality.
"The griffin is a ...
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Iron
19th C. French Empire Style Round Mahogany Bronze Mount Tilt Top Center Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th Century French Empire Style Round Mahogany Tilt Top Table w/ Bronze Ormolu. Item features ornate cast bronze ormolu, brass casters, carved central column, beautiful wood grain, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Bronze
A Fine French Early 20th Century Gilt-Bronze Center Table Attr. Francois Linke
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French early 20th century Empire style ormolu and figural patinated bronze-mounted amboyna and veined Verde d'Alps marble top "Gueridon" attributed to François Linke (185...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Painted Empire Demilune Pier Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Demilune console, with top of Carrara marble, on painted base, having two round columns supporting its ormolu embellished apron and conforming platform, with a back of distressed mir...
Category
1920s French Vintage Empire Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
American Empire Expanding Rectangular Wood Side Table with Mahogany Veneer
Located in Queens, NY
American Empire folding rectangular side table with a sliding table top and extendable hinged leaf, resting on a baluster pedestal base ending in 4 flattened scroll legs with casters...
Category
19th Century Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French Empire Revival Style Burled Walnut Extension Dining / Center Table
Located in Queens, NY
French Empire Revival-style (19/20th Century) burled walnut circular center / dining extension table which opens to accommodate 4 leaves, resting on a central fluted and tapered colu...
Category
20th Century French Empire Tables
Materials
Wood, Walnut, Burl
Table, Western Europe, circa 1920.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Mahogany table, Western Europe, circa 1920.
Very good condition.
Wood: mahogany
dimensions :
table height 78 cm width 132 cm depth 94 cm when unfolded 145 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Empire Tables
Materials
Wood
Empire Side Table From Brede Main Building, Denmark
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
This amazing table comes from Brede main building outside Copenhagen, Denmark.
Category
Late 18th Century Danish Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Metal
Table with chairs in Empire style, France.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Empire style table and chairs, France.
Very good condition, after professional renovation.
Table from the end of the 19th century, a chair from the beginning of the 20th century.
...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Empire Tables
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Empire tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Empire tables for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, case pieces and storage cabinets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, mahogany and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Empire tables made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original tables, popular names associated with this style include Maitland Smith, Baker Furniture Company, and Grosfeld House. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $595 and tops out at $26,000 while the average work can sell for $2,675.