Antique French Louis XV Style Kingwood and Marquetry Bureau de Dame

A 19th century Dutch marquetry inlaid bombé bureau profusely decorated all-over with marquetry depictions of flowers, urns and birds. With a rectangular flap opening to reveal a stri...

An attractive Arts & Crafts oak motto style bureau bookcase in golden quarter-sawn oak firmly attributed to Liberty & Co. of London. Featuring a moulded carved cornice with inscription ‘J.S. & L.E.S. TO V.R.C. JUNE 7TH 1911’ above a leaded green bullion glass door and open shelves, the bureau fall-front opening to reveal various pigeon holes and a quarter-sawn oak writing surface, with a drawer and pairs of cupboard doors below and three further drawers to the side. With Liberty design shaped hammered copper handles and brass locks to the bureau and drawers. In good solid condition and very well made, this would have been a very special commission as large bureau...

A superb quality late Victorian Sheraton style rosewood and marquetry desk in the manner of Edwards & Roberts. With a Carlton House influenced top featuring elegant inlaid curved lid...

An attractive nest of Victorian mahogany and marquetry inlaid quartetto tables. Each inlaid to the top with floral sprays and boxwood stringing and further boxwood stringing to the s...

A stunning Sheraton Revival inlaid mahogany breakfront wardrobe dating to the early Victorian period and attributed to Edwards & Roberts. Profusely decorated with fine quality ribbo...

This is an attractive mid-Victorian ormolu-mounted, burr walnut and boxwood inlaid credenza dating to circa 1870. It has a breakfront top with a delicately inlaid and ormolu edged fr...

This parquetry desk has the attributes one would expect when bearing the name to one of Paris leading retailers of objet deluxe. It is bombe...gently swelling and raised on cabriole legs. It is applied with oval porcelain panels which we have not dismounted but are to Sevres standard. It extensively mounted with bronze chutes sabots and moldings of various sorts. Including a bronze pierced plaque with the monogram of the owner. It is in a small way, highly evocative of 19th century Paris at its best. This company flourished between the consulate and 1867 when it closed. It enjoyed Royal patronage and was certainly a leading supplier of luxury goods of the highest quality. Maison Giroux, the famous curiosity and luxury goods shop, was situated at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The business was founded in 1799 by Francis Simon Alphonse Giroux, cabinetmaker and official restorer of Notre Dame. “Maison Alphonse Giroux” also known as “Giroux & Cie” specialized in producing ornate objects d’art and technically sophisticated furniture. Patronized by various members of the French Royal Family, including Louis XVIII, Charles X, Henri...

A fine quality 19th Century Louis XV style Marquetry inlaid bureau de dame, having wonderfully detailed scenes to the drawer fronts and cylinder, the sides and reverse having foliate...

Kingwood Marquetry inlay through out, slide out leather surface writing area, brass top gallery with marble inset, concave frieze above the cylinder, exterior 3 short, and 1 long dra...

A fine Victorian gilt-bronze mounted marquetry inlaid Bureau De Dame. This richly decorated bureau de dame is of bombe shape beautifully inlaid overa...

A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau de Dame, by François Linke. Signed to the bronze mount ‘F.Linke’. Linke Index Number 1650. This very fine and unusual bureau de dame ha...

A striking and high quality French mid-19th century Louis XV style kingwood and ormolu bureau plat. The desk is raised by elegant cabriole legs with fine fitted wraparound ormolu sab...