18th Century and Earlier Side Tables

A Regency period occasional table painted to simulate marbles and rosewood, English circa 1790-1810, the canted rectangular top painted in a variety of colors with twenty-four panels...

A fine 18th century mahogany triopod table with carved acanthus stem and cabriole legs. The top with an elegant gallery with turned spindles. Circa 1770

A George III mahogany side table with well patinated, dished, circular top, over a later turned and tenoned tri-pod base. Great color and patination.

A superb French 18th century Louis XVI st. mahogany, ormolu and white Carrara marble side table. The table is raised by elegant square tapered legs with their original unique and mos...

A stunning and very high quality French 18th century Louis XVI period Mahogany, flamed Mahogany and ormolu vanity/side table. The two drawer vanity table is raised by delicate topie ...

18th century George III mahogany silver table, the moulded dish top over shaped frieze centred with carved shell supported on cabriole...

An exceptional Italian 18th century Tuscan st. Walnut, patinated wood and onyx side table. The oval table is raised by a beautiful X shaped base with fine patinated ball feet, concav...

A striking and most decorative Italian 18th century Baroque period Walnut, Ebonized Fruitwood, giltwood, and bone side table. The one door, one drawer side table is raised by elegant lightly curved square tapered legs leading up to impressive ebonized fruitwood columns with giltwood plinths and capitals centering the door. The door displays a bronze pull and is richly decorated with stunning intricately detailed inlaid foliate designs centering a bearded man with a sword...

Charming carved table on cabriole legs, with central drawer.

A charming French 18th century Louis XV period painted side table. The beautiful table is raised by elegant tapered cabriole legs decorated with fine painted fillets which leads up each leg and along the most decorative scalloped shaped apron. The apron is decorated with charming finely detailed hand painted floral designs while each side displays a single drawer with richly chased pierced foliate ormolu handles and additional lovely floral designs. The top displays a most charming and wonderfully executed central hand painted woven basket with a beautiful luxuriant array of flowers, one lovebird at the center and another flying above and holding the basket in its talons. At the border is a fine foliate gold tooled band...

A handsome pair of Italian 17th-century walnut, Vert Patricia, and Brocatelle d'Espagne marble side tables. The tables are raised on four turned legs and connected by a curved H-shap...

A fine ormolu-mounted and rosewood veneered gueridon à écritoire, stamped by the Parisian ébéniste Pierre-François Quéniard dit Guignard (1740-1794), became maître in 1767. He was a ...

A wonderful Italian 18th century Louis XV period patinated side table. The table is raised by cabriole legs with a decorative fillet border extending over each leg and apron. Above i...

Unusual and very decorative three-tier étagère or guéridon of tapering form supported by three hoof feet. With its original polychrome paint. This guéridon is very elegant with it...

A charming French 18th century Louis XV period Rosewood and ormolu side table circa 1750. The small scale table is raised by elegant slender cabriole legs with lovely foliate ormolu ...

A late Adam period work table depicting Venus and Neptune The slender gilt and white gesso decorated legs supporting a lockable oval tilt-top fitted with a mahogany-lined compartmentalised interior. The glazed top displaying a gouache of the Roman gods...

An 18th century French oak side table. Gently curving cabriole legs, with a doweled top and single drawer.

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

A FINE NEOCLASSICAL OAK SIDE TABLE, LOW COUNTRIES OR ALSACE, CIRCA 1790. With brocatelle marble top. The frieze fitted with a long drawer.

Antique Italian neoclassical demilune side table from circa 1800, with grey painted decorations added at a later date. Measures: Height 90 cm x width 120 cm x depth 59.5 cm.

Antique Massive Wooden Mill Wheels from China, on handmade round Iron Bases

Portuguese occasional or side table with finely carved detail and one drawer.

A very rare table with a uniquely shaped top with concave sides and rounded corners, thick veneers, the inset marble top of a rare shade, the case housing a lone drawer and raised on...

An Extremely Rare Pair of William and Mary Side Tables, with original Carrara Marble Tops Carefully stripped to reveal the scintilla remnants of the original black japanned surface;...

A Highly Important and Handsomly Drawn Pair of Late George II Mahogany Side Tables with the Original Egyptian ‘Aswan’ Granite Tops in the Manner of Sir William Chambers. The tables ...

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...