18th Century and Earlier Console Tables

This exceptional Irish games table is as functional as it is beautiful. Crafted of Cuban mahogany, it serves as a console table when not in use, but the top folds out to reveal a gre...

A stunning Italian 18th century Régence period giltwood and Rouge Royale marble console. The wall mounted console is raised by elegant scrolled legs with superb mottled designs and a...

Each console with a later insert mottled grey marble above a shaped and carved skirt with parcel gilt leaf scrolls

A spectacular and extremely high quality early 18th century Italian Napolitan freestanding giltwood console. The console is raised by handsome 'S' scrolled legs with a Rocaille folia...

A handsome Italian 18th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany and Scagliola console, from Tuscany. This beautiful freestanding rectangle console is raised by slender tapered fluted legs wit...

A fine neoclassical Russian fruitwood marquetry and parquetry games table from the late 18th century, probably Saint Petersburg. With a rectangular rotating and folding top, decorate...

Outstanding Spanish Colonial 18th Century Presentation Hall Table Richly carved with motifs of shells, rocailles and scrolls. Arched sturdy leg...

An elegant and high quality French 18th century Louis XVI period Mahogany, ormolu, and white Carrara marble console signed J. Caumont JME. The one drawer free standing console is rai...

A most handsome and stately Italian early 18th century Louis XIV period giltwood and marble Roman console. The freestanding octagonal console is raised by handsome robust legs, with ...

A most attractive Italian 18th century Louis XVI period patinated wood, giltwood, and white Carrara marble Genovese console. The console is raised by elegant square tapered patinated...

A handsome pair of French 18th century Louis XV period oak and marble consoles. Each wall mounted console is raised by fine block feet below scrolled movements and carved acanthus leaves. Connecting each elegantly scrolled leg is a pierced stretcher centered by foliate movements and smooth cabochons. Above each leg are carved corner designs centering the impressive pierced reserves at the arbalest shaped frieze. Each reserve displays a different family crest flanked by richly carved dogs...

A very decorative and unique Italian 18th century Louis XVI period patinated console with a Portor marble top. The console is raised by two handsome supports with square bases and ti...

Tall, stately, hand-carved, walnut console table with large center drawer. Original marble top. The whole on turned and fluted legs.

A beautiful and most unique Italian 18th century neo-classical st. walnut, giltwood, and Sienna marble console, from Luca. The demi-lune shaped freestanding console is raised by eleg...

Neoclassical hand carved, gilt wood console with a polished rouge marble top. The marble top has a carved molded edge, the frieze relief is carved with masks and rosettes and a pie...

An elegant and charming pair of French 18th century Louis XVI period wall mounted giltwood and marble consoles. Each console is raised by square topie designed feet below fine lightl...

Hand carved, 2 piece, walnut console from the area of Tuscany.

A wonderful and most decorative Country French 18th century Régence Period painted and gilt console. The console is raised by four cabriole legs with carved hooves topped by gilt fol...

Hand carved oak console with serpentine front. Beautiful faux marble top in colors of rust and gold.

Freestanding Danish Louis XVI table, in original painting with faux marble top, circa 1780.

A Louis XV carved gilt-wood console table, 1740. With original mottled limestone top. The gilding also original.

17th Century Spanish walnut tressle table. Hand forged iron stretcher. Provenance: Tobler Chocolate Estate at George Subkoff.

An exceptional and wonderfully decorative Italian late 18th century Neo-Classical st. patinated Wood, Giltwood, Sienna and Breccia Pernice marble console. This truly stunning freesta...

An exquisite Italian 18th century Genovese st. giltwood and soapstone console. The freestanding console is raised by impressive richly decorated cabriole legs with scrolled acanthus ...

A sensational Italian 18th century Louis XV period patinated wood and faux painted marble wall mounted console. The console is raised by a charming central foliate and floral reserve...

A hand-carved, solid walnut, single drawer, Tuscan console table. The top featuring it's original, marble slab sits above four tapering, turned le...

Ornate baroque carved giltwood console with foliage and scroll ornaments raised on shaped out-stepped plinth, Italian, 18th century.

A Magnificent 18th Century Irish Walnut Console Table, with Irish Kilkenny Marble Top With bold and handsomely carved oak leaves and acorn across the apron, and enormously character...

An Impressive Mid 18th Century Carved Giltwood Console Table, in the manner of Kent Carefully dry stripped to reveal the soft lustre of the original gilt surface, the table has exce...

A George II White Painted Console Table The original breche violette top, of serpentine form, sits above a handsomely carved Vitruvian scroll fri...

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...