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Louis XVI Tables

LOUIS XVI STYLE

Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.

Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.

Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.

The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.

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Style: Louis XVI
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Pair of French Louis Seize Console Tables
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Pair of 18th century Louis Seize console tables. With carved decorative detail to the front and shaped legs standing on acanthus leave and ball fe...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Wood

Louis XVI Mahogany Jardiniere 'Planter', Attributed to Canabas
By Joseph Canabas
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular moulded surround with a zinc liner with a pierced ormolu gallery, above a panelled frieze with a fluted edge, with later handles to the side, raised on turned taperin...
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Bronze

French Louis XVI Period 18th Century Walnut Desk with Carved Fluted Apron
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XVI period walnut desk from the 18th century, with single drawer, carved fluted motifs, tapered legs and dark patina. Created in France during the 18th century, this w...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Walnut

18th Century French Louis XVI Neoclassical Marquetry Console Table
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century French Louis XVI neoclassical marquetry console table A rectangular console table with one frieze drawer standing on four square, slender and tapering legs with trompe l'oeil fluting marquetry. The drawer as well as the sides decorated with marquetry in the form of a frieze of stylized arch elements within Greek key banding. The corners with trompe l'oeil fluting marquetry. The drawer with gilt bronze ring handles and Louis XVI key hole surrounding. Underneath the drawer a central decorative apron with gilt bronze Louis XVI style mount. The Louis XVI console table is topped by a rectangular red marble slab...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Marble, Bronze

18th Century Italian Louis XVI Painted and Giltwood Console Table
Located in Houston, TX
18th century Italian Louis XVI painted and giltwood console table. This stunning freestanding antique Italian console table has a raised ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Marble

French Louis XVI Period 1790s Farm Table with Sliding Panels and Carved Heart
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XVI period wooden farm table from the late 18th century, with sliding panels, carved heart, turned legs and H-Form cross stretcher. C...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Wood

18th Century Italian Louis XVI Painted and Parcel Gilt Console Table
Located in Houston, TX
18th century Italian XVI painted and parcel gilt console table with marble top. This stunning large 18th century Neoclassical style Italian console table is freestanding with a beaut...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Carrara Marble

18th Century Italian Louis XVI Console Table, Painted and Parcel Gilt
Located in Houston, TX
18th century Italian Louis XVI console table, painted and parcel gilt. This stunning freestanding antique Italian console table has a ra...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Wood, Giltwood

Extraordinary Pair of Italian 18th Century Carved Gilt-Wood Console Tables
Located in Rome, IT
A very fine and important pair of Italian carved gilt-wood console tables, Roman, circa 1770 Each with a rectangular back, yellow and white marble top, above a frieze centered by a ...
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1770s Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Giltwood

Neoclassical Desk, Louis XVI Period 1780
Located in Belmont, MA
This original Louis XVI Desk stands out for its beautiful walnut veneer which is additionally embellished with intarsia. The desk stands on four tapering square legs. It has three dr...
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1780s German Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Walnut

Giltwood Louis XVI Style Console Table with Marble Top, Neoclassical
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Giltwood Louis XVI style console table with grey marble top, neoclassical. Late 18th century antique Louis XVI style giltwood console table. Very fine 18th century highly elegant ne...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Marble

A Fine Pair of 18th Century North Italian Encoignures with Porphyry Marble Top
Located in Rome, IT
A Fine Pair of 18'century Nord Italian Encoignures with a Porphyry marble top.
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Wood

18th Century French Louis XVI Period Kidney Shaped Tulipwood Table with Marble
Located in Atlanta, GA
18th century French Louis XVI period kidney shaped tulipwood table with drawer, cabinet door, & marble top.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Marble

Restored Louis XVI 18th Century Hardwood Walnut Leather Tric Trac Games Table
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely sublime fully restored one of a kind Louis XVI circa 1780 period Tric Trac games table in Walnut, Hardwood and brown leather An image of Marie-Antoinette’s games room, the ‘Salon de la Paix’ at Versailles showing no fewer than four Tric Trac tables. Games tables were highly fashionable at Versailles and the queen organised gambling evenings several times a week losing huge amounts of money. She had to ask for the king’s financial support which he usually offered happily, despite the royal ban on gaming! The Salon de la Paix was was located on the first floor of the chateau next to the queens bedchamber. This is an exceptional piece of art furniture, dating to the late 18th century its French with a walnut frame, hardwood backgammon table, hand dyed brown leather chess board leather...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Leather, Baize, Hardwood

Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Tulipwood and Lacquer Mechanical Table
By Jacques Dautriche
Located in Kittery Point, ME
With later embellishments, the rectangular ratcheted and adjustable raisable top with book stop and lacquered top depicting vessels and plants, the ratchet w...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Tulipwood

Louis XVI 18th Century Ormulo-Mounted Cherrywood Console Desserte, circa 1760
Located in Lincoln, GB
This Louis XVI ormolu-mounted 18th century console Desserte by Jean-Jacques Manser. dit. Mantzer with Saint-Anne des Pyrenees marble-top has a pierced brass galleried undertier. Beautifully decorated with gilt bronze trim to the legs and fluted supports. The Desserte has concave-sides with gilt bronze applied ormolu inlay. The gilt bronze handles are of a laurel-leaf design and of a later period. It is stamped numerous times J.Manser, who designed furniture in the mid-late 18th century, (1727-1780). The front drawer is a 19th century replacement. The escutcheon is inscribed on the reverse ‘MB’ (Blaise Millet...
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1760s French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Cherry

Louis XVI Mahogany Bedside Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The square veined white marble-top and brass gallery above a tambour door and a side drawer, the turned tapering legs terminating in brass caps.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

Louis XVI Style Satinwood Occasional Table
Located in Essex, MA
Circular top with brass gallery over a larger conforming brass gallery shelf, on a shaped support and a tripod base.
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1790s European Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Satinwood

Louis XVI Walnut Architects Table a La Tronchin
Located in Essex, MA
A fine and unusual piece with gilt bronze mounts, when in table position rectangular with a ratcheted adjustable slant lid , a winding key raised and lowers the reading, working sect...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Walnut

18th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Writing Table or Desk, Circa 1780
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Louis XVI carved walnut writing table with a tooled inset brown leather top, standing on elegant cabriole legs ending on cloven hoof feet. Having single center drawer with a decora...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Leather, Walnut

A Fine Pair of 18th Century North Italian Encoignures with Porphyry Marble Top
Located in Rome, IT
A Fine Pair of 18'century Nord Italian Encoignures with a Porphyry marble top
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18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Italian 18th Century Louis XVI Period Giltwood Freestanding Console Table
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French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Mahogany, Ormolu and Marble Side Table
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An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. mahogany, ormolu, and white Carrara marble side table, attributed to Krieger. The table is raised by fine circular tapered fluted legs wi...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Desk, Writing Table, Leather Top
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19th Century French Walnut Louis XVI Writing Desk
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Beautiful Patina. Condition commensurate with age. Gorgeous piece, see photos.
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Antique French Louis XVI Styled Ebonized Jardinière Table with Inset Plaque Top
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique jardinière table is unmarked, but presumed to have been made in England or France is circa 1890 in a Louis XVI style. The table is composed of wood which has been painte...
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19th Century Louis XV Style Jardinière or Plant Stand
Located in Winter Park, FL
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18th C. French Neoclassical Period Console Table w/Orig. Serpentine Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
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19th C. French Charles X Inlaid Birdseye Maple Jardinière Planter / Console
Located in Charleston, SC
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Lacquered Console Louis XVI, Early Twentieth
Located in Marseille, FR
Lacquered and gilded console, Louis XVI style, early 20th century, marble top. Total height dimension 90 cm for a width of 77 cm depth 40 cm. Additional information: Style: French ...
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Lacquered Console Louis XVI, Early Twentieth
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Pair of Louis XV-Style Console Tables with Marble Top
Located in Paris, FR
A pair of Louis XV-inspired console tables crafted of marvelously carved natural elm wood. The naturalistic seashells and scrolling acanthus leaves perfectly illustrate the Louis XV ...
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19th Century Solid Oak Farm Table
Located in Brecht, BE
a french oak farmhouse table, closed the dimensions are 148 x 79 x 74 cm high, open 300 cm x 79 x 71 cm high, as pure as it gets, ready to ...
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19th Century Solid Oak Farm Table
19th Century Solid Oak Farm Table
H 27.96 in W 118.12 in D 31.11 in
Antique Clement Massier French Art Nouveau Majolica Griffin Jardiniere Stand
Located in Forney, TX
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Tables

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French Louis XVI Period Walnut 2-Drawer Writing Table, ca. 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a rectangular top above a conforming case housing an off center drawer as well as a side drawer, both with brass handles, raised on circular and fluted tapering legs, retainin...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Walnut

18th Century Italian Louis XVI Marble Center Table Bronze Paliotto
Located in Roma, RM
Magnificent polychrome marble top of Italian origin, Louis XVI period, about 1780, this type of top was called Paliotto, this marble work was characterized by inlays of colored marbl...
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1780s Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Marble, Bronze

Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Period Marquetry Desk with Leather Top
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This late 18th century French Louis XVI period writing table or desk features a gold tooled green leather top surrounded by bronze edging. The book matched rosewood marquetry exterio...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Bronze

Louis XVI Style Mahogany And Ebonized End Table
Located in Essex, MA
Attributed or by Jansen of Paris. With a circular gray and white marble top with cast patinated brass border over a conforming frieze with trellis desi...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Late 19th Century French Bronze-Mounted Writing Desk w/single Drawer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very Fine late 19th Century French writing desk with single drawer. Bronze-mounted.
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Bronze

French 18th Century Painted Louis XVI Style Console
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A delightful 19th century Louis XVI style console from France, circa 1790! An amazing gray and black marble top, in good antique condition, is wonderfully shaped with the body of the...
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Louis XVI Mahogany Extension Dining Table, with 4 Leaves & Clips
Located in New York, NY
This beautifully restored Louis XVI Mahogany extension dining table. With 4 leaves & clips. Has just been restored & French polished. The two Brassbound de shaped ends together with ...
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French 18th Century Writing Table
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Mixture of dressy by its simplicity and rustic. Very nice the old pine with an 18th century lock.
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French 18th Century Writing Table
French 18th Century Writing Table
H 29.5 in W 38.75 in D 27.25 in
Side Table, Nicolas Petit, End of the 18th Century
By Nicolas Petit
Located in Greding, DE
Ebonised side table with marble top, stamped N. Petit (Nicolas Petit, 1732 - 1791).
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Marble

French 18th Century Side Table
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Very charming piece, simple, refined, that's the Louis XVI. You can feel the history and time that has passed on this piece, i love it!
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Tables

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French 18th Century Side Table
French 18th Century Side Table
H 27.5 in W 16 in D 11.75 in
Italian Marquetry Table, 18th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
The perfect table for an entry foyer or alcove. There are four drawers all around that should be left accessible as they are a good size for stashing small items like keys and pens. ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Victorian Parquetry Tray Top Table
Located in Essex, MA
In the French taste, gallery top and trestle form base and pierced stretcher and saber legs.
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1780s European Antique Louis XVI Tables

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Victorian Parquetry Tray Top Table
Victorian Parquetry Tray Top Table
H 29.5 in W 30 in D 15.75 in

Louis Xvi tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI tables for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, case pieces and storage cabinets, building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI tables made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original tables, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley, Boin-Taburet, and Charles-Guillaume Diehl. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $680 and tops out at $833,747 while the average work can sell for $6,050.

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