Low Rustic One-Drawer Occasional Table

Unique carved and pegged constructed primitive folk table featuring a single drawer and heart cutout detail. France circa 19th century. Wear on wood that is consistent with age and u...

19th century marble top corner table from France. Table can be mounted to wall for support. Good vintage condition with some wear on wood and m...

Early American large side table with a spacious drawer on the front apron. Made of pine with a warm honey colored finish.

Spanish colonial wood side or coffee table from late 19th century Peru. This table sits high on four solid cabriole legs.

Nineteenth century American tawny brown painted side table with a single drawer and cross support. Painted finish and wood shows wear throu...

18th century Dutch gate leg wood table with a rustic green and red painted top. Table has one center small center drawer that pulls out. The hinged legs swing out to support the drop...

A Swedish period Gustavian painted wood table from the early 19th century. This antique table from Sweden has been designed in simple, clean lines, featuring an over-hung rectangular...

This side table has two dummy drawers. The top is faux painted to simulate marble.

The top and front of this English table are painted with simulated line inlay. There is some ware to the paint on the top.

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 top of this one drawer side table has a bullnosed shape on all four sides. It has cracks and shrinkage separations. There is double peg const...

The top of this mahogany table has a molded bullnose edge and is banded with a satinwood and ebony border. There are quarter fans in the corners of the border and an oval shell pater...