Napoleon III Tilt-Top Table with Glass Beaded Top

More sculpture than furniture, this finely-carved 1860s folding chair has a gilded and gessoed wood frame, and the original cut-silk-velvet upholstery material that was woven to fit....

In the early 19th century the typical, but fine flower vase was made of porcelain. The better ones were mounted in gilt bronze. But the most fashionable were of cut crystal and gilt ...

This charming, quirky 19th century black-painted cast-iron table is mounted on wheels, and fitted with a modern custom black opaline-glass top framed in bronze by Guerin.

Our table was made of birch, solid and veneered, stained a rich brown, and topped off with a slab of Bohemian breccia marble. We date it to around 1928, and attribute the design to Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, who coined the term Kultivierte Sachlichkeit (Cultured Objectivity) to describe his work, and distinguish it from the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) practiced by his contemporaries Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Lily Reich. The table bears a passing resemblance to a considerably simplified, marble-topped ovoid one that he designed for his 1934 Berlin living room. Breuhaus was a man on the make. The first of his three marriages was to the daughter of an industrialist, who financed the building of luxury villas and workers’ housing designed by his son-in-law. In 1929, Breuhaus, the son of a dentist, added “de Groot” to his name, falsely linking himself to a distinguished family of painters. By then, he’d been fudging his academic record for years. That didn’t prevent a teaching appointment at the State University of Bavaria, which allowed him to add the prestigious “Herr Professor” prefix to his name. Yet he never followed through on the teaching — he was far too busy designing more luxury villas (commissions he accepted only if he could furnish them as well), and products for his own company, which included furniture, textiles, wallpapers, lighting, and fine silver. In addition to designing aircraft interiors for Lufthansa, and pullman railroad...

Every contour and plane of this exquisite tray-top, mahogany table on wheels is outlined with glinting brass stringing — a hallmark of Russian cabinetry in the late 18th and early 19...

This charming 19th-century English regimental drum was fitted with a glass top to serve as a table. It bears the painted arms of the Royal Dublin Fusil...

A fine French 1880s black lacquered "burgauté" tilt-top table with a central painted floral motif surrounded by a mother of pearl inlay and gilded foliage.   

While there is nothing extraordinary about this mahogany tilt-top table no fancy, carved edge or claw and ball feet there is nothing particularly ordinary, either. The top is just th...

This English Victorian period tilt-top table has a octagonal top, decorated with polychrome paint and inlaid mother-of-pearl, depicting a landscape with antique temple architecture, ...

A round fruitwood tilt top occasional table. The top is inlaid with a parquetry sunburst design in rose wood, ebony and maple veneers. The tilt mechanism is cast iron and no longer h...

Antique French Napoleon III 2 tier marble top bronze ormolu cabriole legs accent table. This elegant French Napoleon III Style 2 tier accent table with marble top, gilt bronze sea...

Extraordinary detailed design on this papier mache and black lacquer tilt top table. Beautiful floral still life painting and inlaid mother of pearl and gilt detail. France, 19th cen...