Louis XVI Vitrines
LOUIS XVI STYLE
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Louis XVI
French Louis XVI Style Display Cabinet, after Francoise Linke
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th century French Kingwood, marble topped Louis XVI style vitrine, having wonderfully fine gilded ormolu classical mounts, a single glazed door opening to revea...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Mahogany, Kingwood
French Mid-19th Century Louis XVI Style Two-Part Vitrine with Original Finish
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XVI style two-part painted vitrine bookcase from the mid-19th century, with canted sides, glass door and carved crest. Boasting its original painted finish, this vitri...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Glass, Wood
19th Century, French Wood Vitrine with Gilt Bronze
Located in IT
19th century, French wood showcase with gilt bronze
This valuable showcase or vitrine was made in Paris in the second half of the 19th century, when there were great blacksmiths and...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Linke Style Verni Martin Vitrine, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century French verni martin vitrine. Having gilded ormolu monopodia and scolling foliate mounts...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Mahogany
18th Century Louis XVI Bijouterie Vitrine Table Hand Etched Glass Gilt Metal
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this stunning original 18th century Louis XVI Bijouterie Vitrine side table with original silk lining
A truly stunning ...
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18th Century English Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Silk, Wood
French Showcase Vitrine in the antique Transition Style 1870 mahogany veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Mahogany on solid wood. High-aisle, one-door, curved and three-sided glazed body. On its curled feet, a draped frame.
Three-sided glazed display case. Slightly protruding top plate ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Mahogany
Large Antique French Louis XVI Gilt Bronze-Mounted Malachite Vitrine Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
A large and unique antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted bombe shaped Malachite vitrine cabinet of superb quality embellished with fine curved single glass door and side...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Rare Matched Pair of Louis XVI Style Wall Vitrines by Zwiener, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare and unusual matched pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted wall vitrines by Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener.
French, circa 1890.
Signed ‘E. Zwiener’ to the base of the bro...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Mahogany and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sever Exhibition Vitrine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Louis XVI Style "Belle Époque" Mahogany and gilt bronze Mounted Sever Exhibition Vitrine with Marble Top. The three-sided cabinet with twin front glass doors below a pair of apron drawers, the interior with a single curved glass shelf...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century, Wood and Gilt Bronze French Showcase Vitrine
Located in IT
The splendid showcase vitrine, made of solid wood, dates back to the end of the 19th century. Made in France by a master cabinet maker of great ability, it’s in Louis XVI style.
The ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Bronze
Large French Louis XVI Style Vitrine, by 'Linke'
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very large and impressive fine quality 19th century French mahogany Virine, in the style of Louis XVI by 'Francoise Linke'.
Having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foli...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Free Standing Vitrine/ Display Cabinet, Edwards and Roberts
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century French mahogany free standing oval vitrine, having a gilded ormolu gallery to the top and foliate mounts to the pelm...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Ormolu
Pair French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Display Cabinets, 19th Century Paul Somani.
By Paul Somani
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Mahogany Vitrine Armiore Cabinet by Guillaume Grohe
Located in Stamford, CT
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...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Large Imposing Louis XVI Style Vitrine, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality large and imposing 19th century French vitrine, in the style of Louis XVI. Having wonderful gilded ormolu plume and foliate mounts, serpentine glazed doors to the...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Carved Table Vitrine in the Louis XVI Manner by Beurdeley
Located in London, GB
A Tour de Force table Vitrine in the Louis XVI Manner
by Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, of Paris
Of free-standing form, constructed in a finely patinated fruit wood, adorned with ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Wood
French Salon Vitrine in Antique Louis XVI Classicist Style Hand crafted
Located in Berlin, DE
Solid beechwood colored hand painted. Oval one- drawered combered and four-sided glassed body on high, brass-painted four edged legs, ending in sabots. Border and cornicing with fine...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
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Beech
China Cabinet
Located in New Haven, CT
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 ...
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1870s French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Palatial Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Kingwood and Vernis Martin Style Vitrine
By Paul Sormani
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A superb quality palatial French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted, satinwood, kingwood parquetry and Vernis Martin style paneling three-door raised Vitrine Display Cabinet attributed to Paul Sormani (1817-1877).
The Vernis Martin Panels signed "V. Gossen." The lower part of the cabinet with three frieze drawers supported by two square-sectioned on tapered legs, fronting an ormolu mounted parquetry back panel, on toupie feet. The ormolu stamped with the initials "P.S." on the reverse. Circa: Paris, 1870.
Height: 101 inches (256.5 cm).
Width: 56 inches (142.2 cm).
Depth: 20 inches (50.8 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...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Vitrine by Alfred Louis Beurdeley, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
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...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Ormolu Mounted Vitrine Attributed Millet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Bronze, Ormolu
French Ormolu Mounted Louis XV / XVI Style Corner Cabinet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a fine and unusual 19th century French ormolu mounted mahogany "Vernis Martin" decorated, marble top corner vitrine cabinet,
circa 1880
Dimensions:
Height 63" (160 cm)...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Ormolu
Fine Late 19th Century French Gilt Bronze Mahogany Vitrine
Located in Sofia, BG
A late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted marquetry vitrine with side door.
France, circa 1880.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Mahogany
Exclusive French Vitrine in Antique Louis XVI Style Mahogany bronzed
Located in Berlin, DE
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,...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century French Vitrine
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century French marquetry inlaid vitrine, having gilded ormolu mounts, shaped glass to the sides and doors, glass shelves within and raised on elegant out swept le...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Kingwood
French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bookcase Bibliotheque
Located in Pembroke, MA
French Louis XVI style mahogany bookcase (or bibliotheque) with brass trim. The door panels are inset with contrasting "plum pudding" mahogany. The doors have indented corners with b...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Style Desk with Vitrine Top
Located in Stamford, CT
A Louis XVI style desk with vitrine Top. This fine custom quality Louis XVI style desk has long tapering bronze-mounted legs supporting a center drawer flanked by larger drawers leading to a set of three smaller drawers under a vitrine mirrored shelving...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
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Wood
French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) 2 door cabinet with lower shelf and shaped glass sides with bronze dore trim.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany and Ormolu-Mounted Vitrine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Large Very Fine Mahogany French Louis XVI Viewing Cabinet by P. Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Dallas, TX
Very fine French cabinet by Paul Sormani. Louis XVI design with very fine gilt bronze mounts. Signed P Sormani. Illuminated.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Style Display Cabinet
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Grand French Louis XVI Hand Carved Walnut Bookcase
Located in Dallas, TX
This large and elegant French bibliotheque, bookcase is made of solid French walnut and dates to the latter half of the 1800s. It recently came from a beautiful home in the Northwest...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XVI Style Belle Époque Bronze and Carved Wood Exhibition Vitrine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French Louis XVI style Belle Époque gilt bronze and carved verde green and parcel-gilt exhibition vitrine display cabinet with side doors, circa 1900, Paris.
Measures:...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Bronze
19th Century Italian Sideboard Credenza, display cabinet , Walnut wax polished
Located in Vigonza, Padua
1880s very important Italian credenza sideboard con display cabinet , in walnut , with gendarme hat, classic of the time.
This furniture has become very rare and precious.
Measures...
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1820s Italian Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Walnut
20th Century Louis XVI Classicist Style French Salon Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
French salon vitrine in Louis 16th classicist style.
Piano black polished veneer on solid pinewood. Oval one- drawered combered
and four-sided glassed body on high, Brasse-painted ...
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20th Century Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Vitrine or Display Cabinet
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality French 19th century Kingwood vitrine, having ormolu swags and drapes. parquetry inlaid panel to the door and adjustable glass shelves.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
French Mahogany Louis XVI Style Vitrine
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A classic Louis XVI style vitrine with brass details made in France during the 19th Century. Flanked with round fluted columns, this case piece...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
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Brass
A fine 19th c French Louis XVI kingwood and parquetry vitrine attrib to Linke
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century French Louis XVI kingwood and marquetry inlaid viewing cabinet. Fine gilt bronze mounts .Attributed to F. Linke
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
A fine 19th century French Louis XVI kingwood parquetry and gilt bronze vitrine
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine 19th century French Louis XVI kingwood and marquetry vitrine with fine gilt bronze mounts . Attributed to Linke.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Fine Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Neoclassic Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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 ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Ormolu Mounted D-Shaped Commode or Vitrine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderful quality 19th century French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted commode or vitrine. The D-shaped grey and green veined marble top above a single drawer with parquetry inlays a...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Louis Xvi vitrines for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI vitrines for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Mid-20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage vitrines created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include case pieces and storage cabinets, tables, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI vitrines made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Denmark pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original vitrines, popular names associated with this style include François Linke, Paul Sormani, Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley, and Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for vitrines differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,160 and tops out at $674,500 while the average work can sell for $9,996.
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