Are marble top tables usually French?

Nationality is stated more often than any timber, form or maker in this category. The word 'french' appears in 510 titles, roughly a third of everything listed and sold on Sellingantiques. Italian, Chinese and English pieces make up smaller identified strands. Plenty of listings name no country at all.

What does a bare 19th Century date mean?

It means a dealer's honest approximation rather than a year. Some 483 listings carry nothing more precise, which makes that bucket larger than every named Victorian decade combined. Where decades do appear, they gather in the 1860s to 1890s and again across the 1900s to 1930s. Eighteenth-century entries exist but are thin, about 60 listings.

Is the top always marble?

No. Other stone runs quietly through the archive: onyx, granite, slate, terrazzo, quartz, porphyry and tesselated stone all appear in titles. Some listings declare painted faux marble outright. Those, along with slate and terrazzo, sit toward the lower end of the range.

How many come up for sale each year?

About 155 a year on Sellingantiques, listed by 196 different dealers over the life of the archive. That spread tells you something. This is a category almost every general furniture dealer touches, rather than a specialist's preserve.

Do pairs sell for more than single tables?

Pairs push upward. Only 95 titles mention a pair, so they are uncommon, but they crowd the very top of the range. At that end matched consoles and side tables outnumber singles.

What are the more unusual forms?

The samples throw up a marble-topped sewing machine table, a table on Roman-style lion monopodia and a pair of side tables carved as seated hounds. Also a rootwood stand with a deep quartz top, and a reclaimed railing turned into a console. Iron-based bistro, pub, conservatory and orangery tables form a steadier strand of their own.

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Antique Marble Top Tables

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A table with a stone slab top, marble in most cases, set on a wooden or iron base, made for halls, walls and window piers where heat and water would spoil timber.