console - tables
Console table. Similar in design and function to a pier table. Strictly, a side table supported on legs or scrolled brackets at the front, with the back secured to the wall. Usually surmounted with a tall mirror, they were made to stand in the piers or divisions between the windows of a drawing room. Later Victorian versions were often freestanding on a platform base, with straight rear supports to enable the table to stand flat against the wall. Console tables usually had marble tops. Collectors may not, therefore, be surprised to learn that many converted marble top washstands are now marketed as 'console tables' or hall tables.
2 item(s) found:
A mid 19th century Australian cedar console table, the later black marble slab with ogee moulded frieze on acanthus carved cabriole legs above a plinth. Width 116 cm. Depth 52 cm . Height 84 cm
Antique cedar console table, central drawer