British Vitrines

Collinson & Lock. An outstanding quality Aesthetic Movement Anglo-Japanese walnut side cabinet with dentil moulding to the cornice and astr...

19th century English mahogany 6-tier étagère with drawer.

A large carved walnut display case, velvet lined, with three glass shelves, and two internal lights, English, circa 1910.

Victorian inlaid + ebonized cabinet with gilt mounts.

A pair of extremely rare Victorian display cabinets with taxidermy resplendent quetzal (PHAROMACHRUS MOCINNO), cotinga and hummingbirds, attribute...

Pharmacy Shop Display Cabinet, Turkey Sponge This charming Victorian shop display cabinet is made in plate glass, the top section has a “D” sha...

Circa 1820-30’s Early 19thC English mahogany school library glazed bookcase Excellent quality and patination with original hardware Adjustable shelves (3 parts) One gl...

A rare and very fine Edwardian mahogany display case by 'Edward and Roberts'. Inlaid with intricate floral marquetry throughout depicting swags, garlands, flowerheads and trailing be...

A fantastic 19th century English mahogany whatnot, or tired stand, with beautifully turned supports mimicking columns, with turned frames supporting solid mahogany shelves, and a low...

A pair of George III period cabinet, circa 1790s, in satinwood and decorated with painted oval of vases of flowers, gilt pilasters ...fantastic, very rare and beautiful. Who want a ...

Sn5028, fine quality and very elegant Edwardian mahogany and inlaid display cabinet or arched form, having cavetto cornice above double string inlaid frieze and a pair of satinwood c...

A late 18th century George III period brass-bound mahogany wine cooler, on its original detachable stand of four tapering legs terminating in brass cappings and castors. With apparently original side-carrying handles, the interior has its original lead lining and drainage tap. In very good condition with excellent color and patina. Ca 1790. With its fitted glass top, it can be used as a small antique side...

A petite Arts and Crafts mahogany display cabinet in the Anglo-Japanese style with chequer string inlays and carved fern details to the upper sides with stained and coloured leaded f...

19th century chinoiserie display cabinet with glass shelves, two hidden drawers, and opening to two bottom doors.

An oval mahogany wine cooler, George III period, circa 1790. With excellent, unrestored, deep, rich color and patination, and original solid-brass carrying handles to either side. This smart Georgian wine cooler (cellaret or cellarette) retains its original waxed surface and patina. It is brass-bound (of coopered construction) supported on its separate, original stand. Raised on square tapering legs terminating in its original brass cappings and castors. It can be also used as a small side table or lamp table. Comes with a bespoke, clear, safety glass cover. Nb. An antique oval wine cooler of this design is quite rare, and makes a very elegant addition to a dining room sideboard, or an occasional table in a drawing room. By removing the top, some examples of this form of wine cooler were often later converted to be used as jardinières. See Christies, 23rd May 2013, lot 23: a mahogany oval wine cooler sold @ £17,500. Literature: Ralph Edwards CBE FSA 'Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture', Hamlyn, London (Fourth Impression 1972) p. 640: “In late Georgian times the wine cooler was generally a plain mahogany tub hooped with brass and standing on four legs. Mary Kenyon in a letter to her mother (October 30th 1775) wrote that among the furniture in the parlour of her new house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields was a ''handsome cistern of mahogany with brass hoops etc. under the sideboard”. A typical example of a brass-bound wine cooler is shown in a picture by Zoffany, representing William Ferguson...

For sale is a fine 19th century satinwood serpentine display cabinet, inlaid with ebony stringing and edged with ebonized moulding, the uppe...

English Mahogany Inlaid Showcase from the 19th Century A piece of furniture made of mahogany wood, dating back to the 2nd half of the 19th century. I...

An antique oak vitrine from England cleverly designed to showcase a collection having glass sides and top with scalloped edge wood surround around the top. The top lifts up and there...

An English mahogany wine waiter or bottle carrier / stand. Of superb color and patination. Mid-18th century, late George II period, circa 1750-1760. This rare, larger-than-usual Georgian example, retains its original lion mask gilt-brass mounts, and has survived with its original fretted angles. Rare to find in this excellent condition in view of the considerable use to which it would have put been during the last 260 years. These scarce open-topped Chippendale period wine waiters serve as bottle carriers raised on legs, with brass castors. They were designed to allow bottles to be circulated around a dining room for guests to help themselves. They had divisions, separated from their stands, and also had a central arched-shaped carrying handle. When not-in-use these wine waiters, or wine wagons...

A display cabinet in the manner of Thomas Chippendale. Constructed in a well-figured Honduras mahogany, with carved highlights; rising from cabriole leg 'ball and claw' feet, with acanthus carving at the knees, with swept and carved corner blocks; over, a running 'egg-and-dart moulding with a central leaf carved cartouche centred about a scallop shell, are two lockable glazed doors, with astragals delineating fifteen panes enclosing a shelved interior; surmounted by a pierced swan neck pediment with paterae teminals set about a turned finial, circa 1910. Thomas Chippendale the Elder (1718-1779) Yorkshire born, a highly skilled cabinet maker and designer, published in 1754 his 'Gentleman & Cabinet Maker's Director', a volume of instantly recognisable and idiosyncratic designs, that was reprinted time and again, serving as an essential manual for cabinet makers the length and breadth of England. Working from 60-62 St Martins Lane, London his output is regarded as the ne plus ultra of 18th century...

An attractive mid-18th century figured mahogany display bookcase with gilt gesso mouldings throughout having dentil moulded cornice above shaped glazed doors and paneled cupboard doo...

An outstanding Arts & Crafts display cabinet, with stylized ebony and pewter inlays. Arched bevelled mirror to the back above display area, flanked by two upper shelves stylized inla...

Dr C Dresser attributed an Aesthetic Movement ebonized display cabinet with incised and gilded zig-zag decoration. Probably made for Bushloe House. I wa...

A fine and unusual English 19th century Edwardian style painted satinwood and silver-mounted two-door side cabinet with a twin-front-doors and a single apron drawer. The doors, sides...

A rare pair of giltwood domed top display cabinets. English, circa 1900. Each cabinet has a domed top comprising of four glazed sections divided by mouldings. The glazed sides ...

Pair of English Chinese Chippendale-style (19/20th Century) mahogany curio display cabinets with glass door and pagoda top. (PRICED AS Pair)

Mahogany and mahogany veneer window opening with two doors with three glass panels and brass hoops, the uprights with half columns. England, 20th century. Measures: High 178 cm...

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).

Superbly and intricately hand carved solid mahogany whatnot or display piece with an attached velvet-lined vitrine or specimen cupboard. Handsome fretted ...

Custom made for us in England by talented craftsmen, this classically styled Georgian breakfront with columnar accents has a presence that is unmat...

An unusual Edwardian display cabinet in the Adam manner By F. Sage & Co Constructed from solid mahogany, the oval display cabinet supported ...

We designed this breakfront to bridge the style gap between antique and modern. Using clean lines and traditional glazing, we gave a nod toward the 18th century and covered it in a t...

Display Cabinet in the Chippendale Style Circa 1960 A modest-sized, three-door display cabinet from the 2nd half of the 20th century. The piece is supported by curved legs ending in...

This has to be one of the rarest examples of the Art Deco display cabinets. If you want a focal point or a wow factor in a room then this is just the ticket. Not only does it look su...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very interesting and stylish Art Modern sideboard which has been custom made A very artist and creative piece, the style is like nothing I have ever seen, its very appealing. The doors all open upwards to reveal large cupboard space, it reminds me of an antique grain bin...

This is an antique display cabinet. An English, Victorian, flame mahogany vitrine dating to the mid-19th century, circa 1850. Magnificent Vic...

A fine quality English Edwardian satinwood, Sheraton Revival display cabinet, by Edwards & Roberts, London. (1845-1900) having classical inlaid decoration, two frieze drawers, raised...

Exquisitely fashioned. A superb vitrine of the finest quality fitted with glass shelves. A refined piece with excellent carving and detail. Designed for an important collection.

Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) for Collinson and Lock, The Eaton Hall cabinet, circa 1878, in rosewood, the scroll-carved broken arched Queen Anne pediment above a dentil and moulded frieze, with a pair of astragal glazed doors flanked by shelves beneath fielded panels, above a central drawer and semi-circular cupboards, the moulded top above a pair of panelled doors with an open panelled section beneath, on shaped splayed feet, japanesque engraved brass handles, hinges and lockplates, stamped 'Collinson and Lock, London 7480', the handles, hinges and lockplates all stamped 'Elsleys, Gt Portland St, London'. Provenance: Eaton Hall, Cheshire. A previous owner purchased this lot from a sale of the contents at Sweetenhams of Chester, 20th and 21st May 1959, where it states:- '283. Rosewood display cabinet, the upper portion enclosed with astragal glazed doors with side shelves, the lower portion enclosed with two panelled doors. This was the last mention of the Rosewood cabinet before it was sold. This piece has many features, which firmly show Godwin's hand at work, i.e. Queen Anne broken pediment, (Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', Butterfly cabinet, p. 227; and a Queen Anne cabinet p. 269 and an 'over door', p. 251), the dentil moulding to the top is identical to the Butterfly cabinet, the astragal glazed doors and panelled lower doors identical to a design for a table for Grey Towers (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 157 and similar detail to the doors on two cabinets on pp. 222-223). The semi-circular central side doors and semi-circular open shelves above are identical to a dressing table and a sketch for a dresser (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 211), a design for a mantelpiece (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 248) and a design for a buffet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 265). The integrated design of solids and voids in many of his cabinet designs and the framed back panels to each individual shelf and framed panels to each side is typical of his work. The splayed front feet are identical to the Four Seasons cabinet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 217). The elongated handles with japanesque engraved backplates simulate Japanese woven rush work (Susan Soros, 'E.W. Godwin Aesthetic Movement, Architect and Designer', p. 303, fig. 11-10 and Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 268) a detail he used in many combinations. 'Sheraton and Queen Anne in Japan at Eaton Hall' only Godwin could have designed this exceptional work of art. Possibly part of a larger commission, the Eaton Hall archivist also found a Collinson and Lock billiard table in the inventory at Eaton Hall. Godwin is known to have designed billiard tables for Collinson and Lock, a design appears in his sketchbook on the 6th of October 1873, carved in the Jacobean style with circular decorations of white storks in relief interspersed with square panels. A corresponding entry on the 7th of October 1873 it shows that he designed it for the McLaren house, a large commission that Godwin did at Adison Rd, Kensington. The third Marquis of Westminster, who later became the 2nd Duke of Westminster, commissioned Sir Alfred Waterhouse to substantially remodel and rebuild Eaton Hall. The work began in 1869 and reached its completion in 1883. The large drawing room can be seen in a photograph taken, circa 1887, pl. 199 in Cooper, Jeremy. Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, in which Cooper mentions that the Duke had spent 600,000 pounds on the decoration alone and that Heaton, Butler and Bayne carried out the work. In 1885, an inventory of the contents of Eaton Hall was carried out, and it is precisely at this point in time that the cabinet receives its first mention. Having occupied a place in the Ormand Sitting Room, 72 on the ground floor of the North Wing of the Waterhouse Hall, the cabinet was described as, 'A Rosewood china cabinet with cupboards beneath and glass fronts at the top, 50ins'. The cabinet is then mentioned again in a 1917 inventory in the Angel Bedroom. The cabinet made its next appearance in 1931 in the 'Declaration of Trusts', which was a valuation of the contents of Eaton Hall, appearing as T86/27 in the Stewards Offices with a similar description, and then finally in the 1959 sale catalogue mentioned above. Sotheby's and various other local auctioneers held many sales of the various contents of Eaton Hall from 1955 through to 1961 until the Hall was demolished in 1961. This description was compiled with the generous help and assistance of the Grosvenor Estate's Archive Department, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Collinson and Lock of London...

Stephen Webb for Collinson & Lock of London. An outstanding exhibition quality satinwood and marquetry Renaissance Revival inlaid corner cabinet of the s...

A fine late 19th century calamander wood vitrine cabinet, the top, and front veneered in calamander wood and the sides ebonised, the front and corners ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning of 170cm tall display pillars with lights on Corinthian pillar bases A very good looking and decora...

An impressive large gilt-bronze mounted mahogany vitrine. This impressive vitrine has a shaped cresting rail carved with acanthus above a pair of shaped doors with bevelled glass ...

We are delighted to offer this stunning original 18th century Louis XVI Bijouterie Vitrine side table with original silk lining A truly stunning ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare George III mahogany sideboard from Ince Castle Saltash and restored in 1988 for Patricia Viscountess Boyd. A very rare find, i ha...

For sale is a very good quality Edwardian rosewood and inlaid cabinet. The top of the cabinet has three beveled mirrors, with two cabinet sections, one on each side, both with glazed...

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 ...

Edward William Godwin made by William Watt, with applied enamel label. An Important Anglo-Japanese ebonised display cabinet with an upper and...

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

A pair of display vitrines in the early Georgian manner probably by Lengyon and Morant Constructed in gilt and gesso work decorated with entrelacs, strapwork, scallop shells and aca...

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

Highly-prized coromandel, or East Indian ebony, was used to create this beautiful Victorian vitrine. Featuring delicate inlay in the Victorian/Edwardian style and glass panels framed in the equally luxurious satinwood, this cabinet is constructed to fit flush against a wall with baseboards. Elegant cabinets such as this are perfect for displaying one's treasures, but with original locks, keys, mirrors and fleur-de-lis fabric, this case is a prized possession unto itself, circa 1890. Measures: 30" wide x 14 ½" deep x 41 ½" high. Coromandel ebony is variegated brown and black, often called "streaky," wood. It is considered a highly valuable wood for turnery, fine cabinet...

A truly refined ebonized piece with gilt appointments and exquisitely fine inlays. Fashioned in two parts with fine proportions.

E. Goodall of Manchester, a fruit wood, inlaid, and leaded glass display cabinet with an array of Glasgow Rose and floral fruitwood inlays. ...

Each with a molded cornice above a pair of diamond mullioned glazed doors opening to a shelf, over two a pair of drawers, raised on square legs headed by pierced brackets, painted wi...

A pair of Edwardian satinwood vitrine tables with shaped tops with banded edges above single drawer, and raised on square tapering legs with string inlay, joined by stretchers surmounted by circular...

A Pair of Regency Cream, Black and Gilt-Japanned Display Cabinets Late 18th Century/Early 19th Century Provenace; Doris Duke Collection Each wi...

A fine and rare English 19th-20th century Chippendale style carved oak and parcel-gilt console vitrine. The narrow upper two-door vitrine crowned with a carved parcel-gilt peacock fe...