Kingwood Furniture

Antique French Gold Bronze Mounted Inlaid Kingswood and Cut Crystal Cave à Liqueur, Circa 1885-1895. The inlay on this piece is a work of art.

This fine bedroom set comprises a bedstead and armoire wardrobe which are crafted in mahogany and kingwood parquetry and mounted with delicate ormolu. The headrest of the bedstead fe...

Mid-20th century French Louis XV style Kingwood bronze mounted open front bookcase. Beautiful inlay work on the sides. France, circa 1940. Measures: 34.25" H, 40" W, 10.5" D.  

Louis XVI Marble-Topped Commode French, c. 1770 This Louis XVI commode from France dates to the late 18th century, offering a refined blend of neoclassical design and practical sto...

French Louis XV style (19th Century with some mount replacements) kingwood commode with 3 drawers and bronze trim with a marble top.

A beautiful and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany, Kingwood, ormolu, and Brocatelle Violette side table attributed to François Linke. The table is raised by cir...

Antique French Secretary Desk from the Late 18th Century Explore this French 18th century secretary desk, crafted in France circa 1770-80...

Antique French Louis XVI Kingwood and Bronze D'Oré Vitrine with Beveled Glass, Circa 1890.

A Magnificent 19th Century Large Antique French Louis XV Style figural gilt bronze mounted kingwood and marquetry double-sided Bureau Plat/Desk of very unique shape. This spectacular...

This beautiful desk, beautifully finished in kingwood, leather and gilt bronze, is a fantastic piece of 19th century French design in the Louis XV style. Elegant, beautifully crafted...

A fine quality French kingwood, marble topped vitrine having shaped glass to the front and sides. Beautiful ormolu mounts and raised on cabriole legs. The the manner of 'Linke.'.

Dutch Regency Kingwood one drawer marquetry library table with satinwood foliage and butterfly inlays, central inlaid foliage medallion, flanking drop leaves with foliage urn baskets...

Diese elegante Chiffonnière (oder Table de Chevet) im zweiten Louis-XVI-Stil aus dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert, besticht durch ihre harmonische Verbindung von strenger Geometrie und pra...

Superb Louis XV chest of drawers with all curved sides, in crimped kingwood marquetry in satin frames underlined by boxwood fillets. Opening four drawers in three rows. Beautiful g...

18th Century French kingwood bureau de dame. With gilt bronze decorative mounts.

With a thick serpentine breche de alep marble top over a conforming case with two conforming drawers with bronze handles raised on cabriole legs with sabot feet. From a Bellevue Avenue Newport Rhode Island estate.

A very good quality 19th century Louis XV style bureau plat, having an inset leather top, gilded ormolu mounts, three frieze drawers to one side, d...

The French antique transformation furniture chest of drawers, originates from Paris and dates back to around 1800. The special feature of this...

This elegant Louis XV bureau plat, dating from circa 1750, showcases the exquisite craftsmanship of its time. Constructed from tulipwood and kingwood, the desk features a luxurious l...

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...

Pair of French Louis XV Inlaid Marble Top Semainier Lingerie Chests Circa 1910 Dimensions : 55" Tall X 15" Wide X 13" Deep These gorgeous Semainier chests were made in France in t...

A fine commode in the Louis XV manner after a model by Jacques Dubois By Maison Rogié of Paris. Constructed in book-matched kingwood veneers, inlaid with floral motifs, and richly decorated with fine ormolu mounts; of bombe serpentine...

This exquisite pair of French étagère side tables features three elegantly graduated tiers - first tier contains a drawer, providing a sophisticated stage for books or collectibles. ...

Here we have an extraordinary ormolu-mounted pier cabinet with a smoothly bevelled Vert Maurin marble top (a green marble from the French Alps), made circa 1820–1840 and formerly ret...

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...

A Kingwood vitrine attributed to Maison G. Grimard, a well known French Ebenistes de art in the 19th century. The Ormolu mounted cabinet and frame are mounted with acanthus leaves an...

English Regency figured kings wood hinged game table with interior baize, ebony string inlays, double supporting gate legs, and terminating on the original cast brass reeded casters,...

A Louis XV Style Ormolu Gilt Bronze Mounted Kingwood and Tulipwood Gueridons with impressive, clean lines marquetry works and fine bronze ormolu, by the famous 19th Century Parisian...

This unique Louis XVI Roll Top Desk was made in France around 1780. The outside of the secretary desk has a kingwood veneer with a gorgeous mar...

Set of Louis XV Style Gilt-bronze Mounted Kingwood Occasional Tables  French 19th Century  Dimensions: Height 29.5 inches, diameter 14 Height 29.5 inches, diameter 15

A gilt bronze mounted kingwood and tulipwood two drawer commode stamped Schlichtig of the late Louis XV period, (circa 1770). The commode also bears the JME stamp, (for jurande des menuisiers-ébénistes), which was added once a committee made up of elected furniture...

French Louis XV period (18th century) "Tric Trac" or Backgammon table stamped by the maker, "P. Roussel," and the guild "JME" (Jurande des Menuisiers et Ebenistes --translated as the...

Small Rococo style chest of drawers or nightstand, France 19th century. This beautiful small dresser has a gorgeous kingwood veneer and is decorated with Rococo Style bronze fittings...

18th century Louis XVI Cylinder Top Secretaire, Paris 1780. The secretaire stands out for its elaborate kingwood and satinwood marquetry. The inside is embellished with several dra...

Classic French Art Deco cabinet, circa 1925, by MAURICE DUFRENE in purpleheart, kingwood, and ebony. Marquetry in exotic hardwoods and mother-of-pearl. The interior is in maple burl....

A stunning and wonderfully decorative pair of French late 19th century Louis XV st. Kingwood and Rouge Royal marble cabinets. Each his and hers cabinet with its original hardware is ...

A high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. tulipwood, kingwood and ormolu desk, signed 'Escalier de Cristal, Paris, circa 1880. The desk is raised by four square tapered legs w...

19th century French Kingwood and marble top centre table, having a rouge veined marble top encased within a brass border, the inlaid frieze below having a single drawer at the front ...

A most elegant and extremely high quality French 18th century Louis XV period Kingwood, Tulipwood, and ormolu desk circa. 1750. The Bureau à Cylindre desk...

This beautiful small lady's desk comes from England and was made during the Regency period around 1830. The desk features a pretty kingwood veneer on the outside. It has a flip up to...

A fine antique quality pair of French Louis XV style bedside cabinets each beautifully crafted in kingwood and tulipwood with exquisite floral marquetry panels and original ormolu mo...

A very fine 19th Century pair of marble top kingwood chests of grand proportions, fabulously hand carved and ormolu mounted throughout with gorgeously rich patination and grain. The ...

An exquisite and high quality French 19th century Transitional st. Tulipwood, Kingwood, Ormolu and Breche D'Alep marble commode, modeled after Pierre-Antoine Foullet. This exceptiona...

A Pair of French 19th Century Side Cabinets or Cupboard commodes Veneered in Tulipwood and Kingwood with Marquetry Panels of Herons This pair of side cabinets or Cupboard commodes a...

An important French mid-19th century gilt-bronze mounted kingwood, satiné and parquetry bombé commode after the model by Charles Cressent attributed to Maison Millet, Paris the serpentine Brocatelle Violette d'Espagne marble top above two long drawers centred by a flaming urn, flanked to each side by a child holding oak branches and headed by courting doves, the front angles with a bust of a boy and a girl each holding a dove, each bombé side with intertwined oak branches, on oak tree trunk supports and foliate-cast feet. The original model for the present commode dates from the 1730s and is the work of Charles Cressent (maître in 1720; d. 1768). Entering the collection of the Dukes of Hamilton after the French revolution, the commode was sold at the celebrated Hamilton Palace sale (lot 1806) in 1882. It was purchased by Ferdinand Rothschild and is now in the collection at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. This impressive Régence style commode is reminiscent of the work of François Linke, however none of the mounts appear to be stamped or recorded in his oeuvre. Maison Millet was an active client of François Linke and it is believed that this commode with its distinctive high quality mounts and construction are characteristic of the production of this celebrated Parisian cabinet maker. Maison Millet was established by Théodore Millet in 1853, and continued until 1902 from premises at 11, Rue Jacques-Coeur, Paris before relocating to 23, Boulevard Beaumarchais. Maison Millet was a highly regarded furniture company that was described as producing 'meuble et bronze d'art, genre ancien et moderne'. The firm won several awards in the series of exhibitions in London and Paris, such as the gold Medal in the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. In 1902 Maison Millet was authorised by the director of the Palais de Versailles to replicate Marie-Antoinette's celebrated Grand Cabinet à bijoux. Literature: Sir Anthony Blunt...

Pair of singed Linke bronze mounted and parquetry commodes in the Louis XV style. Parisian made cabinets are signed "F. Linke" on the bronze mounts. S...

A superb quality antique French Victorian jardiniere stand in kingwood, richly mounted with ormolu and dating to the mid 19th century. This is a beautifully made and highly decorativ...

A Louis XV Style Ormolu Gilt Bronze Mounted Kingwood and Tulipwood Gueridons with impressive, clean lines marquetry works and fine bronze ormolu, atrrubuted to the 19th Century Pari...

Charming Louis XVI centre table with curved shape top Very distinctive look - could also function as a desk We date this piece to circa 1880 ...

An important and high quality French mid 18th century Régence Period Rosewood, Kingwood, Ormolu and Marble commode. This stunning bombee shaped four drawer chest showcases a wonderfu...

An 18th century Italian, Neoclassical commode from the area of Lombardy, possibly Milan. Decorated with pinwheel marquetry and floral inlay. Inlays of walnut, kingwood, rosewood a...

A very good quality 19th century French kingwood parquetry inlaid Louis XV style freestanding bureau plate. Having an inset leather top, five oak lined drawers to one side, dummy dra...

A very good quality French Louis XVI style marquetry inlaid card table. The top having wonderful floral and musical instruments inlaid. Serpe...

19th Century French Kingwood cylinder desk of exceptional quality, the top structure having a pierced brass gallery with a veined marble top and three drawers below with decorative o...

The Gianfranco Frattini Bernini double-sided sideboard, model 501, designed in 1960, is a symbol of elegance and functionality. This extraordinary piece, made of rosewood, features s...

A good quality pair of Louis XIV kingwood marquetry inlaid, ormolu-mounted side tables, having inset marble tops, three drawers, raised on cabriole legs, united by an inlaid shelve b...

A good quality late 19th century marquetry inlaid kingwood commode, having its original marble-top, two large drawers, ormolu mounts and handles and raised on out swept legs.

Dimensions - H: 59 1/2 in W: 28 in D: 16 1/2 in An extraordinary example of late 19th century French decorative artistry, this French Louis XV style bronze mounted Vernis Martin vi...

Set of 4 Vintage Rosewood Chairs - Erik Buch (Denmark, 1960s) This rare set of four dining chairs is an iconic piece of Danish Mid-Century Design, designed by the celebrated Erik Bu...

An exceptional and most decorative pair of French 18th century Regence Period Kingwood, Ormolu and Rouge Belge Marble encoignure cabinets. Each unique corner cabinet is raised by mos...