18th Century and Earlier Buffets

This charming antique buffet is a wonderful example of French regional furniture making in the 18th century. Known as an enfilade because of it’s multiple doors, these types of buffets were used in dining rooms in French country homes for hundreds of years. The top would be used for displaying and presenting the food or game before a meal, while the doors below opened for ample storage for things such as faience servings pieces, silverware, and more. The enfilade is constructed of a mixture of wood types, with French walnut being the wood of choice for the most visible areas : the four front doors. Of course these doors were also carved in rich detail, featuring countless details and motifs. Each door has floral spandrels surrounded by beading. The two middle doors are symmetrical, with elegantly carved drapery swags and crinkled ribbons, surrounded by repeating raised moldings. The exterior doors or outer doors are carved with floral and foliate margent with gently rising curved moldings toward the center. Spiral fluting surrounds all the doors. Above the doors are 4 drawers with oval steel pulls and escutcheon plates. The thick top of the buffet has a quarter round molding and shows large old iron nail heads, affixing it to the body below. The entire piece rests on 8 feet, with the exterior legs carved in the Louis XV style. The back legs are blocked, while the two center front feet are shaped. The apron is also heavily worked, with an overall shaped design, drapery swag motifs, and a central basket of flowers. The piece has 3 functional locks, each with it’s own key (drawer keys missing). Today, this antique French enfilade...

18th century cherry enfilade from France. The top is banded and follows down to a molded apron which contains three drawers in the front over three...

Crafted in France circa 1880, the antique painted sideboard stands on fluted and tapered legs over a straight carved apron decorated in the c...

Exceptional and in original condition this period Louis XVI credenza has a rectangular top with rounded front corners atop a conforming case with three drawers, each with raised pane...

French Louis XVI period mahogany three drawer commode with separate marble top. This handsome chest is quintessential Louis XVI, with elegant clean lines, reeded corner columns with ...

A French Louis XVI period painted enfilade from the late 18th century, with three drawers over three doors. Created in France during the tumultuous last decade of the 18th century, t...

French 18th Century Louis XVI buffet.

French 18th century Louis XVI period sideboard.

A lovely antique buffet à Deux-corps cabinet from the estate of Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis. This tall French Louis XV / XVI style transitional buffet...

18th century painted enfilade in Louis XVI style. Door panels adorned with indented corners, support posts decorated with fluted corners and beautiful carved details on the apron - a...

An 18th century Louis XV - Louis XVI Transition period solid cherry enfilade buffet handcrafted by skilled artisans from Toulouse during the French Transition period (1750-1775), hav...

A large 18th century Parisian mahogany buffet with a newer black stone top. This French Louis XVI buffet is comprised of four doors and four drawers that are adorned with bronze hard...