Italian Tables

Edelweis Marquetry Side Table Swiss Brienz 1900 A decorative nutwood side table decorated with inlayed and painted sceneries depicting chamois and edelweis flowers surrounded by ebo...

We are is delighted to offer for sale this lovely circa 1880 William IV style small centre table or large side table with Italian marble top . Please note the delivery fee listed ...

Refined cast iron Victorian table. The table is made of cast iron painted white . Great workmanship of the cast iron that features ornaments and floral elements , note the workmanshi...

Antique bull Horn table ca. 1870 The bull horn table is covered with vintage cattle coat which has to be renewed (is loosing the hairs). The iron legs...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite antique Pietra Dura Italian Marble chess table with Victorian Mahogany circa 1880 base ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely Italian Giltwood with marble top console table circa 1860 Venice Please note the delivery fee l...

Antique Black Forest rustic antler table ca. 1900. A large antique octagonal antler table. Decorated with several antlers from the deer and stag. Each corner with turned horn roses....

Complete your CEO office with a high-end Italian desk from the artisanal producer Modenese Luxury Interiors. This solid wood presidential desk features a keybord tray with hinged fla...

Decorate your CEO office with a high-end Italian baroque open desk from the artisanal producer Modenese Luxury Interiors. This solid wood presidential desk f...

Magnificent exhibition quality antique Victorian Italian profusely carved solid figured walnut serving/console table having a fantastic quality solid figured walnut top with a carve...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare and extremely important hand carved walnut fully stamped library table by Angiolo Barbetti of Firenze What a find… this table is by one of the finest Italian carvers of all time, dating to circa 1860, Barbetti’s works sell in the hundreds of thousands, they are highly collectable, impossible to find and when they do come up for sale they usually end up in museum collections, they are simply that good This is an Italian carved walnut library or centre table, the cartouche shaped top with gadrooned edge and leather inset, the carved and pierced frieze incorporating a central shell motif flanked by scroll motifs with swags of flowers, each conforming cabriole shaped leg incorporating similar motifs and joined by an X-stretcher centred by a seated cherub, on scroll carved feet, the underside with branded stamp 'BARBETTI, FIRENZE' What more can I say! The condition is period correct and very fine, we have cleaned waxed and polished it from top to bottom, it is in gallery ready order throughout Dimensions: Height 82.5cm Width 142cm Depth 76cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point Angiolo Barbetti (1805 - 1873) was a skilled carver, designer and decorator, with a flourishing atelier in Florence during the nineteenth century. After working in his father Massimiliano's atelier in Siena, he took up an apprenticeship with Giovacchino Guidi (d. 1842), considered one of Siena's finest ebenisti. By 1826-7, he had established a workshop on the Piazza San Giovanni, Siena and in 1830 exhibited his first works at the Istituto delle Belle Arti, Siena. In 1842, Barbetti moved his workshop to Florence, establishing himself near the ponte alle Grazie. Important commissions from this period included carvings for the interiors of Villa San Donato for Prince Anatoly Demidoff. Barbetti took part in many of the international exhibitions of the second half of the nineteenth century, including the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, where he was awarded a medal for a suite of carved walnut furniture. Following the exhibition, the suite of furniture was purchased by the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum, where it remains today. Joined in the business by his four sons Rafaello, Egisto, Ottavio and Rinaldo by the beginning of 1860, the firm of Barbetti continued to find international success exhibiting successfully at the 1861 Florence exhibition, the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Makers Bibliography: Meyer, Jonathan, Great Exhibitions: London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, 1851 - 1900, Antique Collectors Club (Woodbridge, UK), 2006, p. 41. Simone Chiarugi, La bottega di Angiolo Barbetti a Siena e Firenze , in C. Paolini, A. Ponte and O. Selvafolta, Il bello ritrovato , Novara, De Agostini, 1990, pp. 220 223. Simone Chiarugi, La fortuna...