1800s French Wooden Side Table

An antique wooden table from France, produced circa 1900. This charming table forms a perfect cube, featuring hollowed cubby corners hugging centered drawers. The thin sheet of glass...

A wooden side table made in early 19th century France. This small table features a drawer and shelf with carved surround. Intricate scroll and leaf pat...

A wooden table from Scandinavia, produced circa 1900. A graceful side table featuring a sliding drawer with original lock and key. Looking like it sprang from a Hans Christen Anderse...

A wooden cabinet from Spain, produced circa 1800. At a height of six and a half feet, this antique features a double door upper cabinet hanging from...

A 20th century wooden side table with a metal frame, from Central Europe. With a charmingly rustic wooden top perched on slim metal legs, this side table presents a versatile profile...

The simple design and warm finish of this antique wooden side table give it a timeless appeal. Hand-crafted in France in the 1800s, a rectangular tabletop sits atop an apron housing ...

Beautifully time-worn, antique, Southern European, chestnut wood end or side table. This relatively small size antique table is a joy to look at and the history of this kind of table makes it very interesting as well. Pay tables or paying tables were initially used by tax collectors and later in time (in the latter part of the middle ages), when most cities started to have their own currency, came the need for 'money exchangers'. A lot of the first money exchangers in 'early Netherlands' came from the Italian region of Lombardy and their name for these paying tables was 'banco'. Yes, it is this where also the English word 'bank' originates from. Pretty soon these money exchangers, who mainly serviced businessmen and travelers, also started 'safekeeping' and lending money. These tables therefor are at the very root of banking and just like some banks in this day and age, some of these earliest 'bankers' did not keep enough cash in their tables to be able to pay out when clients needed their money. This sometimes would lead to a lynching whereby the table of that particular money lender would be broken into pieces. The Italian word for such a broken table...

An English Georgian period oak side table from the early 19th century, with single drawer, turned legs and stretchers. Born in England during the early years of the 19th century, thi...

Antique Victorian Eastlake parlor table, circa 1880s. Made from walnut with an oval white marble top. Base features a turned center sup...

Found in France, this Late 1800s French Walnut Hand Carved Side Table is simple in design and high on impact. The piece features a freeform top and ...

A very interesting small table that resembles an old book. It is made of solid wood resting on wrought iron legs with pompons as a decoration. The side of the book is actually quite ...

An English Georgian period oak table from the early 19th century, with lift top and turned base. Born in England during the reign of George III, this ...