Large 19th C. Mahogany Display Cabinet Lighted, Mirror Back, Louis XVI-Style

Impressive French display cabinet. Bronze doré mounts that are exceptional. Center portion having three glass shelves that are moveable Lighted

French display cabinet with carvings of love birds. It has three glass shelves that have been added as well, as mirrored back and mirror on the bottom. The shelves are adjustable....

Exceptional quality vitrine with mirrored back having four glass shelves. Beautifully cast bronze dore mounts decorate this piece. Beveled glass ...

19th century bookcase/display and storage cabinet. It is made of amboyna wood which is very rich in color. The top section is great for display or for books and the bottom half ha...

Exceptional display cabinet with center opening door to fitted interior with three glass shelves that are moveable. It has a mirror back and mirror on the bottom. Two doors open on ...

Exceptional display cabinet that is signed with engraved signature at the top Of the base. A Paris label is evident when the doors to the upper structure are Open. The carving in t...

Large fine quality 19th century Louis XVI marble top mirrored vitrine/display cabinet. Two individual single door top and bottom mirrored cabinet sect...

Fine quality French Louis XVI style Linke influence Vitrine, circa 1890. Having wonderful gilded ormolu monopodia mounts, serpentine front and sides, with shaped glass, inlaid floral...

A very good quality pair of late 19th century French mahogany bow fronted display cabinets, each with a gallery to the top, gilded ormolu foliate and molded mounts, central doors with a glass shelf within, a frieze drawer above a shelf beneath with a paneled back and raised on elegant cabriole legs. Signed; Paul Sormani (1817-1877), one the most important cabinetmakers of the 19th century, was born in Venice. Having trained as a cabinetmaker, he moved to Paris where he opened his first shop in 1847 specializing in furniture made in the Louis XV and Louis XVI style. When she decorated her palace, Empress Eugenie, the wife of Emperor Napoleon III, who was particularly fond of furniture in the 18th century styles, engaged Sormani to create spectacular pieces to compliment her period examples. Sormani was able to meet the Empress’s high standards with the excellent quality of the cabinet work, bronze mounts, use of lacquer and unusual marbles. Sormani’s firm was a maker of fine “meubles de luxe”, (deluxe furniture) whose work was described in the 1867 Exposition Universelle catalogue as “toute sa production revele une qualite d’execution de tout premier ordre”. He received a medal of premiere classe at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, followed by another medal at the 1862 exposition in London The workshop also made eclectic furniture...

Unique Louis XVI style display cabinet, built around 1890, this demilune cocktail cabinet with an elegant curved legs and top display cabinet was made of different woods and richly d...

A fine quality late 19th century mahogany oval table display cabinet, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts depicting cloven hoofed Bacchus influen...

A very good quality late 19th century French kingwood vitrine. Having gilded ormolu mounts, a single glass door, opening to reveal two shelves within. Raised on cabriole legs, termin...