Antique Buffet Deux Corps from Normandy, circa 1830

French carved mahogany buffet ‘deux corps’. The top features cabinets and four small fitted drawers, while the base has a pair of drawers over c...

A French, mahogany bowfront buffet, the frieze with two drawers and four doors below enclosing adjustable shelves, on turned legs with original brass sabots.

This early 20th century French Louis XVI style buffet is testament to the high quality workmanship and style Parisienne ateliers are known for. Handcrafted of mahogany and having a w...

Finely carved, Belgian Fruitwood Deux Corps Buffet & Hutch

Heavily hand carved French Renaissance buffet hutch C.1600. Simple and naive carvings commensurate with that era of furniture making. Beautiful patina in ...

An elegant, French, Louis XVI style mahogany, three door & three drawer buffet with original shaped marble top. At the center is a single large cabinet door with a simple recessed p...

Cabinet doors and cornice present a scroll theme, ending in a simple plinth with central circular designs. The top glass front cabinet contains two shaped wood shelves to beautifull...

Lovely buffet deux-corps from Normandy with beautiful carved detailing of a floret and grain motif on the cabinet doors, an urn and floret design on the cornice with a bell flower bo...

A lavishly carved wedding piece, this oak buffet a deux-corps from Normandy, is embellished with foliage and flowers in carved relief, as well as offering beautifully-articulated applied carvings in high relief as seen in the central flower-filled basket and flanking floral sprays, which are symbolic of a fruitful union. It features the original hand-blown glass, as well as the original pulls, key plates, locks, one key, shelves, and carved escargot feet. A dowry piece of this quality would have been commissioned for a bride of some financial & social standing. France, circa 1800 or earlier (late 18th century). Perfect for your French provincial kitchen...

Originally presented as a wedding dowry, circa 1785 (making it period Louis XVI), this wonderfully hand-carved, hand-painted deux corps is from Normandy, France. According to a centuries-old custom, French fathers would give commissioned pieces of furniture as a wedding gift to their daughters. The item would be sent to the bride’s new home, packed with her belongings. This custom is no longer popular in Europe, but pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries still exist. Generally speaking, the more intricate the carvings, the wealthier the bride’s family was, indicating that this particular bride came from a prominent family. The focal point of our deux corps de marriage is the large crest comprised of a wicker basket bouquet, located just under the arched top. Interestingly, the top of the buffet is arched, not just the crown, which is adorned with egg and dart above a deep cavetto cornice and a ring of imbricated discs that run behind the mid-relief crest. Other motifs include beading, additional bouquet medallions, crinkled ribbon bows, rosettes, Vitruvian waves, and widely spaced fluting. All of the carvings have been painted a true white, while the rest of the wood has a distinguished gray finish with blue accents that has become synonymous with painted antique furniture...

Louis XVI painted greyish/green buffet a deux corps

Hand-carved in cherry wood, circa 1830, this period Louis Philippe buffet deux corps has a beautiful reddish-brown color with golden a...