Louisiana - Console Tables

Antique Mizner Style Wrought Iron, Brass and Green Marble Console Table, Circa 1920-1930.

Pair of antique Italian Baroque giltwood nightstands/consoles is easily mounted on the wall to make the perfect bedside companions, and you're good to go in inimitable Italian flair!...

Exceptionally Carved Giltwood Demilune Console

Painted and gilded Italian consoles.

Pair Fine Antique 19th Century Continental Gold Leaf and Marble Top Console Tables.

17th century polychromed angels with later elements.

Exceptional Italian walnut or marble demilune console.

Beautifully Gilded and Painted Console with Rouge Marble top

Grand 18th century French Regence carved gold leaf marble top console with beautifully carved female faces adorning the top of each leg. The piece features acanthus leaves at the bot...

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

Magnificent antique French Regence style carved wood with gold leaf & marble top console, Circa 1860.

This gorgeous Louis XV console dates back to the 18th century and features finely carved and gold leaf elements below a contoured white marble top. The piece features a beautiful urn...

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

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...

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...

French 19th century Restauration mahogany console with fine bronze d'ore mounts and Bleu Turquin marble top

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

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

This is an amazing table with exceptional marquetry and inlay. It's fantastic in the way it was made.  

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

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

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...