Antique Boudoir

Traditionally, a refined cabinet of this type would have been placed in a lady’s bedroom, boudoir, or elegant parlor/salon, used to display fine objects, devotional items, or preciou...

(see photo attached) This model pleased the Empress so much that she ordered two other pairs in 1858 for her boudoirs at Compiègne and Fontainebleau Palaces.

Peter Hughes, in his catalogue entry for the Wallace candelabra, cites that the palm-leaf candleholders are of the same model as those on the celebrated Ostrich candelabra supplied b...

Museum and Gallery Holdings: Antwerp: Woman in Despair; A Parisian Sphinx; Authorised Begging Boston: The Attentive Listener Brussels: Lady in Pink; Ladybird; Salome; Widow and her C...

The showrooms are handsomely decorated in white and gold, and the "evening room," draped in black velvet, like the "gem boudoir" of the Chicago house, is of special interest to the l...

As a retreat and dressing room for women, boudoirs were often very elaborate and fitted with high-quality furnishings and a remarkable Poudreuse desk like this one would be a custom ...

Riesener produced his most graceful and innovative pieces of furniture for Marie-Antoinette: In particular for her boudoir at Fontainebleau, he produced fragile furniture decorated w...

Riesener produced his most graceful and innovative pieces of furniture for Marie-Antoinette: In particular for her boudoir at Fontainebleau, he produced fragile furniture decorated w...

Riesener produced his most graceful and innovative pieces of furniture for Marie-Antoinette: In particular for her boudoir at Fontainebleau, he produced fragile furniture decorated w...

Holland Louis Icart: The complete Etchings February 1998 Louis Icart, et al. Boudoir Art: The Celebration of Life, March 1997 Clifford P.

In a 1913, at an embroidery exhibition in Paris at the Musée Galliera, he presented a boudoir in collaboration with curtains, upholstery fabrics, and a tapestry, embroidered in moder...