Louisiana - Console Tables

A French 19th century mahogany console in the Empire style with marble top. The gray, Saint Anne-type marble is in wonderful anti...

Imbue your home with a sense of historical grandeur with this 19th Century Italian Giltwood Console with Marble Top. Its radiant...

Crafted in England during the 1880’s- this unique little table is topped with a beautiful piece of soapstone over a solid walnut base. The wonderfully patinated hardwood apron is fre...

A pair of carved and painted Venetian consoles.

Exceptional Italian walnut or marble demilune console.

Exceptional Carved and Gilded 18th c. Roman Console

Louis XV giltwood console with original Rosetta marble.

Exceptionally Carved Giltwood Demilune Console

An Italian Baroque painted console with the original grey and white marble top. The sides, four legs and X-shaped stretcher are detailed with flowers and leaves.

17th century polychromed angels with later elements.

Antique French Louis XVI ormolu mounted satinwood console table with marble top and mirrored back, circa 1880.

Graceful and beautifully carved walnut table

This Italian Louis XV console table is beautifully carved and painted in the classic revival manner. The piece dates back to the early 20th century and rests on four cabriole legs, scroll feet, and hosts a faux marbre top. The table has an urn with leaves at the front, and a floriate design at the back. It exudes an effortlessly classic Italian presence. The piece is part of the collection from The French Antique Shop...

Carved, painted and gilded console table with Sicilian marble set "QUADRILOBE" top.

Beautifully Gilded and Painted Console with Rouge Marble top

18th century Country French drop leaf game table ~ console is a remarkable artifact from the 1700s when entertainment consisted of table games, ou...

Antique 18th century Dutch marquetry console card table. A very handsome piece of furniture. Table is 14" deep closed and 27" deep opened.

Pair antique English Inlaid Mahogany Demi-Lune console tables, Circa 1880's.

Antique Charles X birds eye maple console table, circa 1900.

Antique French Louis XV style gold console with white & grey marble top, Circa 1910-1920.

Antique English Regency period rosewood console table, circa 1810-1830.     

A wonderful console games table that can serve two functions in your home.

Among the most beautiful examples of hardstone artistry that have ever entered our collection, these important Grand Ducal pietre dure console tables are in a class all their own. Their powerful architectural elegance, impressive size and rarity make them two of the finest hardstone masterpieces ever created and quite possibly the greatest pair of pietre dure tables in existence. With their naturalistically rendered flowers and birds, these tabletop panels showcase the particularly fine quality craftsmanship of the Grand Ducal workshops in Florence during the first quarter of the 17th century. Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici, one of the most important personages in the annals of art history, established the Grand Ducal Workshop in 1588. The workshop specialized in the art of pietre dure developed from the ancient art of opus sectile, giving rise to the most luxurious and detailed examples of hardstone artistry ever produced. Its patrons were the Popes and Royals of Europe, and the quality of the objects produced in the workshop is without equal. Typically, because of the high level of workmanship the art form requires, pietre dure plaques were crafted in small sizes. The great majority of known examples of pietre dure are a fraction of the size of our grand tables. The combination of pietre dure and extensive use of other rare decorative hardstones such as lapis lazuli and pietra paesina or “ruin marble” meant that these tabletops were surely produced for a wealthy collector. The tables are further distinguished by their superbly carved bases by Andrea Brustolon, known as the “Michelangelo of wood.” Brustolon was a Venetian wood sculptor known for his exuberant and intricate Baroque furniture. His high Baroque style was influenced by his years studying in Rome, where he was exposed to the sculpture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Crafted in the early 18th century, these bases display Brusolon’s unmatched talent for both figural and foliate work, combining cupids, masks and oversized scrolling vines for a grand, ornate effect. Similar furnishings by Brustolon are held in museums worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Museum of Scotland and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the Ca' Rezzonico Museum in Venice features an entire room dedicated to the sculptor. For approximately 150 years, these tables were part of the famed Stoneleigh Abbey collection owned by the Lord Leigh family. This renowned English country estate inspired Jane Austen to write Mansfield Park. Lord Leigh eventually sold the tables at Christie’s London in 1962, and the pair have stayed in the collection of the same Florentine family who purchased them from Christie's until we recently acquired them. Our tables are prominently pictured in the important Saul Levy book Il Mobile Veneziano del Settencento. The pietre dure plaques date circa 1625-1650. The decorative tops likely would have originally been sold with a pair of plain stone columns to display them, and Lord Leigh would have commissioned the custom bases from Brustolon circa 1714 when he added the impressive four-story fifteen-bay Baroque West Wing to Stoneleigh Abbey. A similar single Grand Ducal tabletop is in the United Kingdom’s National Trust Collection, and a smaller tabletop resides in Buckingham Palace. The flower and bird panels in our examples relate to the famous Badminton Cabinet...