F. Schmidt Furniture

A fine and large French late 19th century Louis XVI style mahogany, kingwood bandings and fruitwood marquetry armorial commode with Sycamore Marquetry...

Lovely French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted commode. Late 19th-early 20th century. Serpentine-fronted mottled marble top, above a veneer...

Great size 19th century French Directoire marble top commode. 2 Drawers encased with brass, surrounded by fluting and tapered legs.

A French neoclassical style commode with marble top from the 19th century. This antique chest from France features its original ...

A late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted commode Signed Haentges Fres A marble top, above a bronze frieze, with one long drawer, and two deep long drawers. Signa...

An exquisite French Louis XV-XVI transitional style commode with dore bronze ormolu mounts and original marble top. The fine marquetry depicting a townscape was crafted from the mo...

A fantastic late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted Louis XVI style parquetry commode By Zwiener Jansen Successeur A marble top above a frieze set with three drawers with pierced laurel decoration, over three garland-hung parquetry cupboard doors each with shelves, the sides similarly decorated, on toupie feet. The bronze mounts stamped to the reverse ‘’ZJ’ for Zwiener / Jansen Successeur. The Lockplates stamped MON THEAU/THIEFFINE SUCCR/SERRURIER/PARIS. After the very famous 18th century model by Martin Carlin...

A French Neoclassical chest of drawers, with marble top, from the 19th century. This antique commode from France features a rectangular-shaped black marble top, which rests atop a ca...

Marble top two drawer French Commode 19th Century in Kingwood and satinwood with inlaid panels of flowers in fruitwood. Two drawer, curved bombe front with four legs with gilt bronze...

An exceptional late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted Louis XVI style commode. By Henry Dasson A marble top above a frieze set with three drawers with pierced laurel decoration, over three garland-hung cupboard doors each with shelves, the sides similarly decorated, on toupie feet. Signed Henry Dasson 1879 to the bronze mount on the side and stamped Henry Dasson 1879 twice to the back of the carcass. After the very famous 18th century model by Martin Carlin. Henry Dasson was considered one of the finest makers of gilt bronze-mounted furniture in the 19th century. He established a workshop at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, and specialised in the production of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture using the very finest ormolu mounts with the highest quality mercury gilding. In 1871, Dasson purchase Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen business and remaining stock. Dasson exhibited at the 1878 and 1889 Paris Exhibition. He displayed Louis XV and XVI styles as well as pieces of his own modified eighteenth century design. The exhibits in 1878 included a table entirely in gilt bronze, purchased by Lord Dudley. Martin Carlin (ca 1730 – 1785) was a Parisian ébéniste, born at Freiburg, who was received master at Paris in 1766. Carlin worked at first in the shop of Jean-François Oeben, whose sister he married. He set up independently in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an unfashionable quarter of Paris, where few of his wealthy clientele would have penetrated. Carlin sold his works exclusively to marchands-merciers such as Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre, who acted as decorator-designers. It was only through these entrepreneurs that Carlin could acquire the Sèvres Porcelain plaques that decorate many of his pieces. His earliest such pieces are datable by the marks on their porcelain to 1766; they followed designs supplied by the dealer Poirier. Although Martin Carlin made some larger pieces— secrétaires à abattant (drop-front secretary desks), tables, and commodes— he is best known for refined small furnishings...

A very fine late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted commode. By Paul Sormani Beautiful marble top, above a bronze frieze, with one long drawer above two deep long...

Fine quality french ormolu-mounted marble top commode with rare diamond-shaped parquetry veneers Two door cupboard bombe front with gilt bronze mounts, cabriole capped feet. The d...