Mahogany Vitrines

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu mounted plum pudding mahogany veneer, mahogany and Vernis Martin decorated vitrine à Deux Corps, probably by François Linke (1855-1946). The lower structure fitted with finely chased gilt-bronze mounts with female masks, musical instruments, floral drapes, bows and acanthus, centred with a frieze drawer and a cupboard door with three painted panels. The centre front painted panel with a Romantic courting park setting scene amongst sheep and a sculpture fountain of Putti; the side panels both with parks scenes of a resting lion sculpture and fountain flanked by grassing sheep. The lower cabinet interior with three drawers, the upper vitrine case with two glass shelves, a bowed beveled front door and sides, crowned with a fine gilt-bronze wreath mount with ribbons, all raised on four cabriolet legs with cast lion paw mounts. Unsigned, Paris, circa 1890-1900. The style of this cabinet is closely related to those produced in the Paris furniture making trade in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1880s and as such, without a signature or identifying mark, is unattributable. However, there are similarities with the firm Raoux et Brunet, some of whose mounts were designed by Léon Messagé and later used by François Linke. Indeed many of the mounts on this cabinet, whilst not exclusive to him, are very similar to the work produced in his early years in Paris in the 1880s. At this time Linke was making furniture to order...

19th century link quality mahogany vitrine cabinet having spectacular bronze mounts stamped Grohe. This Important and Impressive Louis XVI style cabinet is larger than life as it can...

Elegant French display table, the wood is in blond mahogany marquetry. The feet and the sides are decorated with bronze ornaments, end of the 19th...

Luxe Art Deco sideboard / credenza / showcase featuring a solid mahogany frame veneered in luxurious light walnut and finished in a high gloss lacquer. The piece has two single side ...

Extremely fine French mahogany biblioteque with exquisite ormolu mounts, by A. Beurdeley, Paris. The Beurdeley family were a flourishing dynasty of three generations of fine quality ...

A fine gilt-bronze mounted mahogany table vitrine by Georges-Francois Alix. French, circa 1890. Stamped to the underside and to the reverse of th...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany vitrine, by Alfred Louis Beurdeley. French, circa 1880. Stamped to the carcass ‘A. Beurdeley à Paris’. This fine mahogany...

A fine French, 19th-20th century Louis XV style mahogany and gilt bronze-mounted Vitrine by Haentges Freres. The single door cabinet surmounted with or...

A very fine French Louis XV style ormolu and jasperware-mounted mahogany single door vitrine, attributed to François Linke (1855-1946). The two upper front corners surmounted with or...

French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany single door display/vitrine cabinet with gilt bronze trim and front sphinx form legs.

A fine French 19th century Louis XVI style mahogany and ormolu mounted two-tier vitrine cabinet. The upper section with a single glass front door below a pierced gilt-bronze floral r...

A fine French 19th-20th century kingwood and tulipwood marquetry and gilt-bronze mounted vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door display cabinet with a red-velvet backing and bowed glass panels surmounted with acanthus and floral gilt-bronze mounts in the style of Léon Messagé (French, 1842-1901), the serpentine shaped front door with an ornate marquetry and ink colored panel depicting wreaths, ribbons and tied acantus leaves, all raised on four cabriolet legs ending with gilt-bronze paw-feet, Paris, circa 1900. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinet maker, Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873. He subsequently travelled to Prague, Budapest & Weimar before finally arriving in Paris in 1875. It is documented that he obtained employment with an unknown German cabinetmaker in Paris, and stylistic similarities, photographs and geographical proximity have led some to suggest that Emmanuel Zwiener was the most likely candidate. After a period back in his home town of Pankratz, he returned once and for all to Paris in 1877. In 1878 Paris hosted the third great International Exhibition, a remarkable success for a country ravaged by war only seven years earlier. It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger. By 1889 another World’s Fair, as they were often referred to in America, took place in Paris. Monsieur Eiffel erected what has become the most iconic building in Paris for the exhibition and the atmosphere of wealth and confidence may well have encouraged Linke to think that he could contribute an important part to the next great exhibition. As early as 1892 this was decreed to take place at the end of the century, in an attempt to pre-empt Berlin from staging the last great show of the century. In 1892, Victor Champier (fr) one of the commissioners for the 1900 Paris Fair had appealed, “Create in the manner of the masters, do not copy what they have made”. It was an appeal against mere reproduction and Linke rose to this challenge in an unparalleled way with his unique display that was to include the Grand Bureau. Determined to outshine the competition at the Exhibition, Linke had set about creating the most ambitious pieces he could envisage, and more extravagant than had ever been displayed before. The items he exhibited marked a transition from the historicist interpretation of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, an interpretation that was the mainstay of his nearest rivals, to something startlingly new and vital in its immediacy. [6] Together with Léon Messagé he developed a new style for the 1900 Exhibition that paid homage to the Louis XV rococo in the fluidity of its approach, but an approach fused with the lively flowing lines of the contemporary and progressive 'art nouveau'. The Art Journal reported in 1900 on Linke's stand: "The work of M. Linke ... was an example of what can be done by seeking inspiration amongst the classic examples of Louis XV and XVI without in any great sense copying these great works. M. Linke's work was original in the true sense of the word, and as such commended itself to the intelligent seeker after the really artistic things of the Exhibition. Wonderful talent was employed in producing the magnificent pieces of furniture displayed". Linke's stand would have appeared refreshingly new to contemporary onlookers, the traditional designs of the eighteenth century melting seamlessly into an exuberant naturalism. The 'Revue' described Linke's style as 'entièrement nouveaux' and noted "This opinion is universally accepted. Linke's stand is the biggest show in the history of art furniture in the year 1900". It is perhaps the most extraordinary and remarkable aspect of Linke’s personal history that he produced such expensive and luxurious furniture of exquisite quality for the 1900 exhibition without any commission or any potential buyer in mind. [9] At a time when other more established furniture businesses such as those of Beurdeley and Dasson were closing down, he made a huge investment in his stand and the furniture he supplied for it. Linke recognised that to move his business forward he needed to appeal to a more International clientele and the new emerging rich who were at this time amassing fortunes on an unprecedented scale. For this reason he gambled everything he had on his display for the 1900 exhibition. Had this not succeeded he would almost certainly have succumbed to bankruptcy. Linke’s notebook records visitors to his stand from England, Europe, the Americas, Egypt and Japan and including; the King of Sweden, three visits from the King of Belgium, Prince Radziwill, the Prince d’Arenberg, the Comte Alberic du Chastel, Miss Anna May Gould, the American heiress, distinguished furniture makers and the President of France Emile Loubet. This risky endeavour was a resounding success, and with his reputation established, La Maison Linke became the pre-eminent furniture house until outset of the Second World War. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented was never to be repeated. His showrooms expanded into prestigious premises in Paris, in the Place Vendôme as well as the Faubourg St. Antoine where his workshop had been established. He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers. After the 1914-1918 World War, Linke undertook the extraordinary commission to furnish the Ras al-Tin Palace in Alexandria for King Fuad of Egypt, possibly the largest single furniture commission ever conceived, eclipsing even Versailles. Linke flourished and remained active until the middle years of the 1930s and died in 1946 Léon Messagé (1842-1901) was a French sculptor, best known for his sculptural collaboration with François Linke for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Messagé was also responsible for much of the design and creative work for Roux et Brunet...

Majestic French vitrine Napoleon III in transition style, Paris. Rich in extremely finely chiselled, fire-gilt decorative bronze fittings. Mahogany on solid softwood. High-angled, on...

A very fine and large French 19th-20th century Louis XV style mahogany and ormolu-mounted Vitrine cabinet with a Veined Mint green marble top, attributed to Georges-François Alix...

This very large English breakfront features classic Chippendale design flourishes. From the broken pediment crown to the arcaded cavetto moul...

These refined display cabinets, or vitrines, are perfect for elegantly complimenting the display of trinkets without outshining them. The cabinets are crafted in rectangular form fro...

A late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted marquetry vitrine with side door. France, circa 1880.

Marketerie vitrine/cabinet in the Dutch Biedermeier style Mahogany and maple on softwood. High-rectangular, two-door, three-quarter glazed corpus....

Sn4248 Edwardian mahogany display table of shaped outline, having hinged lid with bevelled edge glass and original working lock enclosing crushed velvet interior, all standing on cabriole legs terminating in sabots. This antique display table...

Finely engraved and moulded bronze. Solid beech wood. Three sided glassed, one-drawer body on conical legs. Profile- framed flecked marble platter. On the front, corners and sides,...

This antique display cabinet, or vitrine, is an exquisite piece of furniture: dating from the late Victorian period in England, the cabinet is beautif...

1920s precious and refined Venetian eclectic credenza sideboard with china cabinet by Testolini & Salviati. Splendid sideboard in all its parts. Beve...

A highly unusual and very beautiful desert cupboard/ vitrine in mahogany from the Belle Époque period. This elaborate dumbwaiter offers a mirrored back with open shelving, closed sto...

Russian neoclassical mahogany cabinet with brass inlay, circa 1820. Upper cabinet fitted with glass sides and front glass door with three shelves; bottom section single door cabinet.  

French Louis XV-style (19th Century) mahogany and bronze trimmed vitrine table with glass top and sides.

A very Fine French 19th-20th century Louis XVI style mahogany and ormolu-mounted four-door vitrine, with two central bombé glass doors and single bombé glass doors on each side, the fluted mahogany...

Very fine French cabinet by Paul Sormani. Louis XVI design with very fine gilt bronze mounts. Signed P Sormani. Illuminated.

This is a superb antique French Vernis Martin mahogany vitrine, in the Louis XV manner, circa 1880 in date, with exquisite hand-painted decoration and exquisite ormolu mounts. The t...

Venetian Baroque credenza display of the early 20th century in carved and shaped walnut. Two sliding glass doors with two glass interior shelves; two lower doors with frames covered ...

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Vitrine by Jules Leleu in mahogany marquetry with glass sliding doors and gilt bronze legs Bears its original label dated Nov 9th 1956, and is numbered on the back: 28332 Prove...

A dramatic neoclassic style mahogany cabinet by Lorin Jackson designed in 1940 for the "Glassic" line of Grosfeld House furniture. The exterior of the...

Impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted Kingwood and mahogany marquetry Encoigneurs, corner cabinets or vitrines, attributed to Paul Sormani. The upper section with molded cornice and shell cresting and enclosed by a bowed glazed panel door, the lower section surmounted by a marble top of arc-en-arbalète outline above two frieze drawers and cupboards below enclosed by tambour shutters, raised on short cabriole legs ending in foliate sabots, lock plates engraved 'Sormani PARIS.' Circa: Paris, 1875. Height: 90 1/2 inches (230 cm). Width: 44 inches (112 cm). Depth: 29 inches (74 cm). Sormani, Paul (1817-1877): Born in Venice, Paul Sormani set up in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. He specialized in creating furniture and works of art and was known for his high quality reproductions of Louis XV and XVI furniture...

Majestic Mid-Century inlaid mahogany, carved walnut, console vetrine attributable Paolo Buffa, hand-decorated glass in excellent condition only oil polished. Measure cm: H 170 x W 1...

Art Nouveau vitrine cupboard in lacquered and gilded mahogany with all accosted glazed glass. Legs a hand-carved, lacquered mahogany columns; edgings in gold leaf gilded relief...

High-quality Cuba mahogany on solid softwood. Architecturally articulated body. Two-door, bent frame box on pressed, carved, poliementvergolddete claw feet. Recessed tower with two t...

The vitrine oval shaped, with central hinged tall doors to the front and glazed display all around, mounted with ormolu handles and short legs.

Scandinavian Mid-Century light mahogany display/vitrine cabinet with a keystone shaped top sections supported on a base with a fluted apron and inlaid floral design trim.

19th century Regency French style mahogany vitrine with brass mounts, the cabinet with two shelves, the interior lined with velvet supported on sabre legs.

Introducing a truly exceptional cabinet with a hidden writing desk. This exquisite piece of furniture showcases a captivating combination of rosewo...

19th Century english Bar with real Silver Fittings According to a design by Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) in Chinese style. this all real silver (V-42).

Modernist vitrine with two shelves on the sides. Other measurements_ Central Vitrine Wide: 28in Side Tables : 17.5inx14in From the floor to the marble : 38in

Pair of unusual bookcases with a strong visual impact. The elegant swan necks decorating the glazed fronts complementing the Stark eagle heads on eit...

A stunning 19th century French Empire period bookcase constructed from mahogany. The large-scale and clean lines of this piece, along with the original wavy glass and wonderful grain...

What you see here is one of the finest examples of cabinetry work we have ever carried. Created for us by an English cabinetmaker with whom we have been associated for over 30 years,...

We designed this breakfront to look the part of an 18th century piece, but offer 21st century functionality. From the glass shelves that allow for the option of interior lighting to ...

Unique vitrine by Jules Leleu in mahogany marquetry, patinated metal and gilt bronze Numbered 33774 5697. Provenance: This vitrine was created for Mr. Renondin and is entered ...

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Just the right amount of arc makes this custom, English-made mahogany* cabinet pleasing to the eye while optimizing storage and display in a piece that is only 22" deep at its center...

Objekt: Salonschrank Entwurf: Josef Hoffmann zugeschrieben (Wien, um 1900) Modell-Nummer: 600/10 Ausführung: Jacob & Josef Kohn (Wien, um 1905 - keine Papiermarke vorhanden) Maße in ...

A classic Louis XVI style vitrine with brass details made in France during the 19th Century. Flanked with round fluted columns, this case piece...

Elegant and formal mahogany and tulipwood display cabinet. The cabinet with glass doors with a central parquetry door with an cast bronze physician emblem mount. The sides with glass...

Fine Louis XVI style Ormolu mounted neoclassic vitrine, in two pieces the upper case with ormolu gallery, fitted with one beveled glass door, revealing a mirrored interior, with one ...

French Empire ormolu-mounted vitrine cabinet pedestal, circa 1840. Very good quality bronze mounts of typical Empire period heads. Very useful pedestal vitrine combination tha...

Empire style vitrine, 19th century Mahogany wood. Glazed front and sides, lower skirt with carved central mirror decoration and gilt bronze appl...

Vitrine in mahogany and tinted wood opening with two glazed doors Compartmentalized and resting on four tapered feet, England, early 20th century. Measures: High 128 cm, width 108 c...

Japanese inspiration for this Majorelle vitrine in blond mahogany. The silk fabric inside in perfect condition is the original one from the period, this large display cabinet is in a...