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Baroque Side Tables

BAROQUE STYLE

The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.

Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.

Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.

Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.

Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Baroque
Baroque Side Table in Gray, 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small, elegant 18th-century side table featuring tall, gracefully curved S-shaped legs and a scalloped apron and tabletop. The newly applied dark gray and light brown finish has been...
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18th Century German Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Wood

Neoclassic Dark Oak Compass Side Smoking Table
Located in Van Nuys, CA
A Neoclassical-inspired dark-stained oak side table with a rich chocolate finish, showcasing Victorian styling and a distinctive design. The table features a functional 9-inch compas...
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1930s Vintage Baroque Side Tables

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Oak

Walnut Table, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Walnut table. 17th century. Table with smooth rectangular board and two drawers to the front, decorated with simple geometric shapes on their fronts, leaving between them a strip wit...
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17th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

Baroque Style Walnut Occasional Table
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Italian baroque style walnut occasional table, made from antique and later elements, probably assembled circa 1920. With a 1.25" thick rectangular top, a frieze drawer with stylized...
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1910s Italian Vintage Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

Original Baroque Table, Flanders 1750, Oak
Located in Belmont, MA
This stunning 18th-century Baroque table, crafted in Flanders around 1750, is a true masterpiece of antique furniture. Made from solid oak, it features exceptional hand-carved detail...
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1750s Belgian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Oak

18th Century Italian Baroque Basilica Angel Tables
Located in San Marino, CA
A lovely pair of 18th century Italian Baroque console tables adapted from carved gilt and painted wood angels that were originally archit...
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1750s Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Wood, Giltwood

Spanish Baroque Walnut Table
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top over a drawer with wrought iron handle, raised on turned legs with box stretchers.
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Early 18th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

Italian Gilt Bronze Table with Ebonized Top and Mother of Pearl Inlay
Located in New York, NY
Italian gilt bronze table with an ebonized top and mother of pearl inlay. Beveled glass.
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1940s Vintage Baroque Side Tables

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Bronze

Italian 1800s Walnut Baroque Style Spool Table with H-Form Cross Stretcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Baroque style walnut side table from circa 1800 with spool legs, H-Form cross stretcher and bun feet. This Italian Baroque-style walnut side table, dating back to circa 18...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

Roman Gilt Wood Sienna Marble Topped Console Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This Roman table made in the Baroque taste is a fine example of the type of furniture made for stylish and demanding customers in the eternal city. Made in the late 17th century to e...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Marble

Venetian Gilded Baroque Side Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fabulous Italian side table slightly off-square in shape and beautifully hand carved in the Baroque aesthetic. The table is painted cream with gold leaf accents all over. The table t...
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Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Side Tables

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Wood, Paint

Table. Walnut wood, iron. Spanish school, Guadalajara, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Table. Walnut wood, iron. Spanish school, Guadalajara, 17th century. Table with a rectangular and smooth top, four spheres under the four legs (these joined by chambranas that start...
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17th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Other, Iron

Mid 18th Century Baroque Table , Carvet Walnut by Cucchi Sola finished to wax
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Important 18th century Baroque table in hand carved walnut by Cucchi Sola Ammobigliamenti Restored and finished to wax . Excellent c...
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1750s Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

17th Century Spanish Baroque Walnut Table
Located in Essex, MA
With a thick single board top over two carved panelled drawers flanking a geometric form panel, the drawers with nicely wrought iron handles and escutcheons, panelled sides, raised o...
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Late 17th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

Table, Side Table, Console, 17th Century, Spanish, Baroque, Walnut, Chip Carving
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
This characterful table is of rare narrow depth of 39cm. It is characteristic of Spanish Baroque furniture with a thick single piece top, simple bold chip carved ornament and bold turnings. It has a rich lustrous patina. The thick single plank walnut top with fine figuring. The front fitted with two short drawers decorated with chip carving...
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Late 17th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut

French Baroque Style Carved and Painted Occasional Table
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
French Baroque Style Carved and Painted Occasional Table This is a very unusual piece, the table is hand carved with bold scroll and acanthus decorative legs and elaborate crossing...
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Mid-20th Century Baroque Side Tables

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Pine

Franco-Flemish 17th Century Oak and Ebonized Console Table
Located in Troy, NY
Highly unusual ebonized side / console table. A tour-de-force of bobbin-turned legs and stretchers supporting a two-board top. The black ebonizing beautifully worn off at the more ex...
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Mid-17th Century French Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Oak

A Italian late 18th century Baroque st. Giltwood and Walnut side table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and very decorative Italian late 18th century Baroque st. Giltwood and Walnut side table. This beautiful side table is raised by a scallop shaped mottled Giltwood base wit...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Walnut, Giltwood

Impressive 19th Century Italian Walnut Wall Table
Located in Madrid, ES
Impressive 19th century Italian walnut wall table Richly carved and gilded enriched by Raff carving crowned eagles, yellow Sicilian marble top 19th century Measures: 100cm x 166cm x...
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19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Wood

1950s, Spanish Wrought Iron and Pink Marble Side Tables
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Baroque pair of side tables with wrought-iron bases, painted glossy black and pinky-yellow marble tops.
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Mid-20th Century Spanish Baroque Side Tables

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Marble, Wrought Iron

Walnut Round Center Table with Inset Lapis Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare, round, hand carved walnut center table with lapis veneer inlaid top surrounded by etched gilded bronze banding.
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Lapis Lazuli, Bronze

Black Lacquer Side Table with Svarowski Stones
Located in Berlin, DE
Nice side table with two drawers, on the sides and front ornamented with svarowski stones, crystals.
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20th Century Italian Baroque Side Tables

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Beech

Italian 18th Century Baroque Period Walnut, Fruitwood, and Bone Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Bone, Fruitwood, Walnut, Giltwood

Grand Ducal Pietre Dure Console Tables
By Andrea Brustolon
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
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17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Side Tables

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Wood

Baroque side tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Baroque side 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 side tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, case pieces and storage cabinets, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, walnut and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Baroque side tables made in a specific country, there are Europe, Spain, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original side tables, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Modenese Gastone, Cucchi Sola Ammobiliamenti Torino, and NK (Nordiska Kompaniet). 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 side tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $385 and tops out at $35,000 while the average work can sell for $3,005.