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Empire Console Tables

EMPIRE STYLE

From 1804–15, Napoléon I reigned as the emperor of France, bringing the country into a new era of opulence after the fall of the monarchy and the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. He declared, “We must have very solid things, made to last 100 years.” Empire-style furniture followed suit, with imposing pieces constructed from mahogany and adorned with gilded ornaments. Expanding on the neoclassicism popularized in the previous century — such as in ​​Louis XVI style — Empire style borrowed from the great civilizations of antiquity, from Egypt to Greece and Rome, to connect this nascent empire to the power of the past.

Napoléon I believed the production of fine furniture would reflect the stature of the republic, with his official architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine leading the way with their work on his residences.

Luxurious materials, symmetrical shapes and bold colors characterize antique Empire-style bedroom furniture, armchairs, cabinets and other structures, with frequent motifs including mythological creatures, geometric designs, acanthus leaves, eagles, bees (the imperial emblem) and swans, a favorite of Empress Joséphine.

Flat surfaces, like marble tabletops, were accented with decadent details, such as the bronze furniture mounts made by sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire for the French palaces. Martin-Guillaume Biennais, who worked as the imperial goldsmith, crafted intricate luxury objects that mixed wood, fine metal, mother-of-pearl and ivory. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.

The style became popular abroad, influencing the American Empire style. Stately pieces carved with sprigs of olives by cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange were acquired by American President James Monroe for the White House in 1817.

Find a collection of antique Empire tables, lighting, seating and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Empire
French 19th Century Empire Console with Marble Top
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A substantial French 19th century Empire mahogany console. The thick Carrara marble top is in wonderful antique condition, showing exciting gray veining that forms a nice contrast to...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Antique Pair French Empire Ormolu Mounted Flame Mahogany Console Tables 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a fine antique pair of French Empire marble topped and ormolu mounted flame mahogany console tables, Circa 1840 in date. Each with a rectangular breche violette marble top...
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1840s French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of Empire Style Marble Top Mahogany Parcel Gilt Demilune Consoles
Located in Milford, NH
A fine pair of Empire style marble top mahogany parcel gilt demilune consoles with triangular bases and gilt accents, including gilt carved paw feet. The pair are probably French in ...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Continental Marble and Gilt Eagle Console Table
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Empire late 18th Century / early 19th Century console table with a variegated marble slab and gilt caved acanthus leaves wooden top supported on a gilt carved base depicting ...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Gold Leaf

French 19th Century Empire Console
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A petite French mahogany Empire console with its original marble top. A single drawer is housed in the apron over a pair of column form front legs with neoclassical style brass capit...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Brass

Pair 19th Century Italian Empire Consoles
Located in Houston, TX
A stately pair of 19th Century Italian Empire white marble top mahogany consoles supported by ebonized caryatid columns.
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19th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Ormolu

French Empire Napoleon III Style Mahogany & Bronze Figural Pier Console Table
Located in Dayton, OH
An exquisite French Empire / Napoleon III style mirrored Pier Table, circa 1980s. Made from mahogany and bronze ormolu with a green marble top. The table showcases two figural swan...
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1980s Vintage Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century French Empire Console Table
Located in Ongar, GB
A nice quality 19th century French Empire console table made from flamed Cuban mahogany. With a Belgian bluestone top and original ormolu ...
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1810s French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

19th Century French Empire Neoclassical Marble Top Console Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Opulent 19th century French empire gilt wood console table featuring a marbleized limestone top with partial shell fossil remnants. The marble specimen is...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

French Empire Console Table of Flame Mahogany with Marble Top
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome French Empire console table of fine proportions, featuring a rectangular figured marble top, set upon a frieze of flame mahogany with one long drawer, the drawer with bras...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Metal, Brass

French Empire Style Console Jardinere, 19th Century
Located in El Monte, CA
This unique French Empire-stye console table, which also functions as a jardinere, is a masterpiece of neoclassical design infused with Empire motifs. Featuring a demilune shape, the...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century Regency Ebony Inlaid Cross-Banded Crotch Mahogany Fold Top Table
Located in Germantown, MD
19th Century Regency Empire Ebony Inlaid Crotch Cross-Banded Mahogany Fold Top Table. Measures 36" in width, 17.75" in depth and 25.75" in height. Closed. Open, it is 35" in. Depth.
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Mid-19th Century American Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany, Ebony

Ebonised console table in the empire style
Located in Budleigh Salterton, GB
Very stylish early 20th century Empire style console table , came out of an apartment in Paris French circa 1920’s with original marble and ormolu mounts , having an ebonised finis...
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20th Century European Empire Console Tables

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Sapele Wood

French Empire Style Console Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
Early 19th-century French design anchored by a sleek quartz top with a refined moulded surround and elegant canted corners, this table blends architectural grace with timeless luxury...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Empire Console Tables

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Quartz, Brass

19th Century French Empire Console with Carrara Marble Top
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century French Empire console table having a rectangular Carrara marble top, on mahogany table base with single frieze drawer, raised on square-section, tapering legs capped and...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Carrara Marble

Early 19th Century Ebonized Empire Console Table with White Marble Top, 1808
Located in Berlin, DE
This striking console table, crafted in France circa 1808, embodies the grandeur of the Empire style. Its ebonized wood frame, finished to a deep, lustrous black, provides a dramatic...
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Early 1800s French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Important and Very Rare Pair of Micromosaic, Malachite and Walnut Console Tables
By Antonio Deangelis
Located in London, GB
Important and very rare pair of micromosaic, malachite and walnut console tables Italian & Russian, early 19th century Measures: Height 89cm, width 106.5cm, depth 62cm These exceptionally beautiful antique console...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Malachite, Ormolu

Mid 19th century Swedish elm marble top console table
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century Swedish elm marble top console table circa 1860. Fine quality console table of grand proportions.  Shaped marble top standing on an elm base.  Single concealed draw...
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Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

19th Century Empire Antique Mahogany Marble Top Pier Console Table
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EMPIRE MAHOGANY PIER TABLE WITH MARBLE COLUMNS Continental, circa mid-19th century Item # 109OYP14M A good 19th century pier table with a gray marble top situated over a squared apron with flamed mahogany veneers raised over sienna marble columns capped with exquisitely chiseled ormolu mounts and stretched with a broad lower shelf over bun feet. The center features an old mirror framed...
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19th Century Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

French 19th Century Console
Located in Stockbridge, GA
This console is made of flamed mahogany and a white marble with grey veines.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Vintage French Empire Style Painted Console Table Mid 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful vintage French Empire style painted gilded and ormolu mounted console table, Mid 20th century in date. The rectangular faux marble top with an ormolu plaque to t...
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1950s French Vintage Empire Console Tables

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Ormolu

19th Century Swedish Empire Centre Console Table
Located in Allerum, SE
Fine and unusual 19th century Swedish Empire centre console table with Italian pink Calacatta marble top, Ca 1830.
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19th Century European Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Early 19th C. French First Empire Mahogany And Belgian Marble Console
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An exceptional antique French first empire marble-topped figured mahogany console table, circa 1800. The rectangular Belgian black-gray flecked marble top surmounts a conforming frie...
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Early 19th Century Antique Empire Console Tables

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Belgian Black Marble, Metal

19th Century French Empire Green Marble Top Carved Mahogany Console Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique console in an entry or hallway. Crafted in France, circa 1880, and built of mahogany wood, the console stands on scrolled front legs ending in paw feet, wi...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Antique English Empire Console Writing Side Table, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful small antique English Empire Gonçalo Alves console with integral writing slide and pen drawer, circa 1820 in date. This dual purpose table has a drawer above a p...
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1820s English Antique Empire Console Tables

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Wood

1820s Rare and Elegant Empire Walnut Sicilian Console
Located in Catania, Sicilia
An original conditions Walnut console hand-crafted in Sicily in 1820s. The elegance of saber feet it's typical of the Empire period as the gilded friezes...
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Early 19th Century Sicilian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Walnut

Antique Empire Style Console Table
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Antique Empire style mahogany console table with a marble top, circa 1900. With a rectangular grey and white marble top with slightly rounded front corners, a frieze drawer with a we...
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Early 1900s European Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Brass

19th Century French Empire Marble Top Mahogany Console Table with Drawer
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in France circa 1870 and built of mahogany wood, the elegant antique cabinet stands on front rounded columnar supports embellished with decorative bronze mounted rings at the...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

19th Century French Empire Marble-Top Console
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 19th century French Empire marble-top console table made of solid walnut. Large drawer with original fine cast bronze decoration. Bronze mounted turned column supports in fr...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Brass

19th CENTURY EMPIRE CONSOLE IN MAHOGANY AND FIR
Located in Firenze, FI
This console from the Empire period (early 19th century) is made with fine mahogany wood paneling, while the columns are made from fir wood. Its structure is embellished with refined...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Bronze

Empire Mahogany Marble Top Mirror Back Console with Ormolu
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful example of an Empire rectangular marble top console with fine carved scrolled front legs, figured mahogany veneers, applied ...
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1820s French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Bronze

19th C. French Empire Crotch Mahogany Bronze Ormolu 1 Drawer Console Hall Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th C. French Empire Crotch Mahogany Bronze Ormolu One Drawer Console Hall Table. Item features beautiful wood grain with attractive mounts including human form feet, rear back spla...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Empire Console Tables

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Metal

19th Century Italian Console with Marble Top
Located in Millbrook, NY
Italian Marble Console Table. Exquisitely hand carved wood table with floral details, carved tassels and animal "hoof" legs. Crafted with intricate detailing with bronze and silver a...
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19th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Carrara Marble

19th Century American Empire Mahogany Green Marble Top Console Hall Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th Century American empire mahogany green marble top console table. Item features green marble top, serpentine column supports, art print...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Gold Leaf Console with Guatemala Green Marble Top by Modenese Interiors
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Astonishing Made in Italy console fully decorated with gold leaf finish and a Green Guatemala marble top. The precious hand-made carvings, which Modenese artisans developed through c...
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2010s Italian Empire Console Tables

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Onyx, Marble, Gold Leaf

19th Century French Retour d'Egpyte Antique Veneered Mahogany Console Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An early 19th Century, antique French Retour d'Egpyte freestanding console table made of hand crafted shellac polished, partly veneered Mahogany, in good condition. The rectangular table is composed with one small drawer, consisting a grey Belgian marble top, standing on four legs, resting on a thick wooden base. The front part of side table is particularized by star-shaped brass décor, the front legs are enhanced by black carved large caryatids. The décor piece represents the First French Empire...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Metal, Brass

Elegant Italian Empire Consoles Tables with White Marble Top, 1815
Located in Rome, IT
Empire mahogany and finely carved gilt-wood consoles tables with the rectangular Carrara white marble top. Timeless elegance for your interior. Measures: Height cm 102 width cm 124, ...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

Italian early 19th century Empire st. Mahogany and Giltwood console and mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stately and most impressive Northern Italian early 19th century Empire st. patinated Mahogany, Giltwood and Veneered marble console and mirror. This stunning console and its origin...
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19th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Fine and Exceptional Empire Pier Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A 19th century classical Empire pier console table having a beveled rectangular marble top above an Ogee mahogany veneered apron raised on carved and gilt white marble Ionic column...
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19th Century Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Outstanding Pair of 19th Century Italian Empire Console Tables
Located in Houston, TX
Outstanding Pair Of 19th Century Italian Empire Console Tables. This beautiful pair of free standing antique early 19th century Italian period ...
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1810s Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Walnut

Grand French Empire Mahogany Gilt Bronze Mounted Console Table
Located in Benington, Herts
A Very Fine and Extremely Large Mahogany Empire Period Console Dessert With Finely Cast Gilt Bronze Mounts French Paris Circa 1815-25 The present piece of furniture is rather ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

French Empire Gilt Sphinx Carved Console Table
Located in Queens, NY
French Empire gilt sphinx carved triangular console table with black painted top.  
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Giltwood

19th Century French Empire Console Table
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
19th Century French Empire Console. France, 1810 Mahogany, Beautiful Empire Period Mahogany and Mahogany Veneer Console, resting on Front Columns and Rear Pilasters. This Console is...
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1810s French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

19th Century Italian Console Table
Located in Allerum, SE
19th century Italian gilded and painted console table from the Empire period in it's original condition. Ca 1810, Italy.
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Empire Console Tables

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Wood

19th Century French Empire Demilune Console Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
A French Empire demilune console table with a pair of large hand-carved mahogany swans. Good craftsmanship and beautiful stylized sculptural swans wit...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

Vintage French Empire Style Painted Console Table Mid 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful vintage French Empire style painted gilded and ormolu mounted console table, Mid 20th century in date. The rectangular faux marble top with an ormolu plaque to t...
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1950s French Vintage Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French Empire Bronze Dore and Marble Console Tables
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of French Empire-style (19th Century) bronze and dore trim bracket console tables with half round marble top supported on a single leg ending in a square marble base. (PRICED AS...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Bronze

Antique Empire Console /Sideboard, around 1810
Located in Berlin, DE
Solid wood with veneer, partly gilded. Rectangular cover plate with an inconspicuous frame and S-shaped curly supports on carved claws, which are held in gold. The base is arched. Pa...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

Pair of 19th Century French Empire Walnut Corner Consoles with Grey Marble Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate two small corners with this pair of antique consoles, crafted in France, circa 1820, each tall fruitwood table stands on a single car...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Bronze

French Empire Mahogany Table with Gold Gilt Ormolu Mounts and Black Granite Top
Located in Savannah, GA
"The French Empire style which impacted furniture design and other arts was popular from about 1804 to 1815, lasting longer in some areas. It developed in France under the reign of e...
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1820s French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Granite, Brass

Vintage French Empire Style Distressed Gold Giltwood Hall Table Console
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Empire Style Distressed Gold Giltwood Hall Table Console. Item features antiqued glass top, shell carved knees, paw feet, distressed finish. Circa Mid 20th Century. Me...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Empire Console Tables

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Glass, Wood

Spanish Empire Console Table with Mirror in Mahogany, circa 1810
Located in Miami, FL
Fine Spanish Empire console with mirror in mahogany and rosewood with satinwood inlays, circa 1810.
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1810s Spanish Antique Empire Console Tables

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Rosewood

19th Century Empire Commode, Nightstand or Sewing Table
Located in Berlin, DE
French Empire. Solid mahogany wood. Gilded and chiselled fittings. Two-wise frame base with protruding rectangular marble slab on square columns, joined by an intermediate compartmen...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of Empire Style Mahogany Console Tables
Located in Westwood, NJ
French Empire style mahogany veneered console table with two drawers. Fine geometric herringbone inlays throughout and raised on tapering square legs and a Y-frame stretcher. Dime...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

French Empire Style Mid-19th Century Fruitwood Side Table with Doric Column Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite French Empire style fruitwood side table from the Mid-Century features a rectangular top supported by four Doric style wooden columns, with a characteristic entasis bu...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Fruitwood

Early 19th Century French Empire Marble Top Carved Mahogany Console Table
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant antique console was crafted in France, circa 1810. Standing on turned front columns ending in round feet, and pilaster legs in the rear over a stretcher platform bottom ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Marble

Elegant Italian Empire Consoles Tables with White Marble Top, 1815
Located in Rome, IT
Empire mahogany and finely carved gilt-wood consoles tables with the rectangular Carrara white marble top. Timeless elegance for your interior. Measures: Height cm 102 width cm 124...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Mahogany

Mid-19th Century French Empire Walnut Console Table with Drawers
Located in Dallas, TX
Dress an entryway or hall way with this elegant, antique console. Crafted in France, circa 1820, the simple, narrow, fruit wood table stands on four t...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Console Tables

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Walnut

Empire console tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Empire console 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 console tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, mirrors, case pieces and storage cabinets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Empire console tables made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original console tables, popular names associated with this style include Modenese Gastone, Dassi, Antonio Deangelis, and Baker Furniture Company. 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 console tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $605 and tops out at $955,603 while the average work can sell for $7,371.

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