Console table

A console table is a table whose top surface is supported by corbels or brackets rather than by the usual four legs.^[1] It is thus similar to a supported shelf and is not designed to serve as a stand-alone surface. It is frequently used as pier table (which may have legs of any variety), to abut a pier wall.

Self-supporting form of the console table. The bracket supports are frequently highly decorative

Console tables serving as pier tables underneath pier glasses, Denmark

The term console derives from the compound Latin verb consolor "to alleviate, lighten", from the verb solor, "to assuage, soothe, relieve, mitigate", plus the preposition con/com/cum, "with".^[2]