Louis Philippe Style Marble-Top Table

Antique French Louis Philippe Mahogany center table with marble top, Circa 1830-1840

Exceptional Louis XV style marble-top gilt table, mid 19th c., having shaped inset marble top, over carved apron with foliate and shell motifs, rising on cabriole legs, joined by X-s...

Distinctive oval Carrara marble-top coffee or cocktail table made in the French Louis XV taste. Features a Gumby green painted parcel gilt frame embellished with carved acanthus decoration. The table is supported by cabriole legs ending with scrolled feet. The thick marble top slab...

A charming Louis XVI style occasional table featuring an inset circular grey and white veined marble top, with a reticulated brass gallery edge. This oval-shaped table is raised on f...

Louis Phillippe style desk in the style of rococo revival taste, arround 1870. Pine, walnut veneer.

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Elegant round coffee table from northern Italy with "orange slice" veneered with walnut-feather; the central stem of the tripod is in hexagonal solid wood; the three final supports, always in solid wood, are shaped and well whittled with simple and rigorous lines; at the center of the table, there is a delicate and refined inlay reproducing a rose, made by hand with soft precious woods, the two peripheral circles of the top are always inlaid. The most interesting and compelling feature of this table is the workmanship with which it was made: the " wood veneer"( Attention. The exact term is Italian "lastronatura" untranslatable in English, in fact, the "lastronatura" is very different and older than “wood veneer”. Read explanation later). The”lastronatura” is an artisan technique that spread already during the sixteenth century and remained unchanged until the mid-nineteenth century before the Industrial Revolution; it consisted of hand-cutting the trunks of noble wood (walnut, mahogany, briar, walnut-feather, etc.) with ancient saws in so many layers with thicknesses ranging from 4 to 6 millimeters, which were then applied to furniture for decorative purposes; the finishing of this procedure was very complex: the wood layer was treated with natural earth dissolved in water for the desired shade, it was aged with stone, fixed with shellac applied with a brush and finally polishing was performed in 12 steps...