Antique Whitewashed Oak Table from England, Early 1800s

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...

This handsome antique table is from Normandy and features an interesting single cut plank top with a beautiful burl wood grain. The thick walnut plank top was originally cut into tw...

Heraldic cast iron fireback’s go back 500 plus years. They would depict a family’s coat of arms at the center, and symbols in the form of animals, birds, plants, and numerous other i...

This rare walnut wood and oak 18th century refectory table from Spain has a top made from one single piece of wood. The overhang of the to...

A very unusual parquet armoire coming directly from a home in Brittany. An old ebenist of the area from which this armoire originates is quite confiden...

Hand-carved with Renaissance style motifs in the South of France, circa 1870, this painted table hails from Avignon. The oak base has a thick apron adorned with two layers of crenell...

Found in France, this Late 1800s French Oak Trestle Table features clean simple lines and lots of charm. The rectangular top is supported by iron brackets attached to two hand carved...

Direct from England, a stunning antique English hall table or sideboard with gorgeous hand carvings throughout!~ ~Huge dimensional carved back crown piece with center shield medallion flanked by large scrolls on either side~ ~Wide front apron has hand carved design across the entire front~ ~Huge blocks are fully carved on the traditional English “bobbin” turned legs~ ~Full side lower “pot board”(as these were called on antique sideboards...

Large rectangular rustic table from the early 1800s in seventeenth-century style, made of chestnut wood. It features 1 large under-counter drawer and legs with turnings joined by a s...

??Antique William IV quality figured mahogany tea table having a quality mahogany fold over top opening to reveal a polished figured mahogany interior above a shaped frieze and supported by a hexagon shaped pedestal with a quality carved mahogany collar on a shaped platform base with fantastic carved mahogany paw feet...

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...

The fine square table is topped with a floating panel, enclosed within a flush sided frame, supported on square-sectioned corner legs, braced with straight stretchers and vertical st...