Antique Italian console and hall tables

A form of console table although usually much heavier in form and design. Generally rectangular in shape, with scroll or turned legs at the front and flat rear supports. Often fitted with drawers. Many large side tables are nowadays described as hall tables, and the collector should be careful of the converted or incorrectly labelled Victorian washstand.

Similar in design and function to a pier table, a console table is a side table supported on legs or scrolled brackets at the front, usually 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. Potential purchasers should be aware that many converted marble top washstands are now marketed more...

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A fine and impressive cedar and marble top console table.…

A fine and impressive cedar and marble top console table. Australian circa 1835. green Italian marble top. Provenance: Swan, Murray and Hain 2003, 130 cm wide 56 cm deep, 90 cm high

Italian painted demi-lune console table, early 20th century,…

Italian Painted Demi-Lune Console Table

Italian painted demi-lune console table, early 20th century, the white demi-lune top painted with bands of grey, above a frieze with further painted decoration, on three tapering square legs, height 72 cm, width 121 cm, depth 58 cm. Provenance: Colefax…

Italian painted demi-lune console table, early 20th century,…

Italian Painted Demi-Lune Console Table, Early 20th Century

Italian painted demi-lune console table, early 20th century, the white demi-lune top painted with bands of grey, above a frieze with further painted decoration, on three tapering square legs, height 72 cm width 121 cm depth 58 cm. Provenance: Colefax and…

A Venetian etched mirror glass and applied gilt glass console…

Venetian Etched Mirror Glass Console Table & Mirror

A Venetian etched mirror glass and applied gilt glass console table and mirror, Italian, circa 1950, table 85 cm high, 112 cm wide and 34 cm deep, mirror 138 cm high, 87 cm wide. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney