Louis XIV Buffets

This early twentieth century French Louis XIV style oak buffet features a 16-inch narrow depth, a beveled top, and hand pegged paneled sides and doors. Its two doors are divided by a...

Small, well-proportioned (95x90) buffet in walnut with oak core, decorated with scrolls, canopies and fantastical animals (dolphins?) on the door fronts. Four eagle-claw feet; sides ...

Featuring elements in the style of both Louis XIV and Louis XV, this buffet vitrine is from Liege, Belgium. Hand-carved circa 1900, the wood has been bleached more recently, giving t...

A rare find in today’s day and age, this walnut buffet with original pierre de st cyr stone top is in exceptional condition. Hand-carved circa 1715 in Lyon, France, this wonderful bu...

This buffet is made of walnut with the line of the Louis XIV style. Simple and rustic.

Known in France as a buffet de boiserie, this magnificent period Regence buffet would have been built in the early 1700s. The thick and luscious moldings of this unique piece of furniture have retained a deep and rich patina during the past three centuries. Based on the provenance of the buffet, it was originally commissioned between 1715-1723 for a regional Lyonnaise chateau owned by the Grully family. Remarkably the furniture stayed within the family until 2014, transported between various grand residences within France every few generations. The center of the upper body has an open niche topped by a white marble with gray veining and a quarter-round molding that would have been used to hold a lavabo or fountain. All three sides of the niche have inset panels with luscious and curvaceous molding, mirroring the voluptuously thick crown with a deep cavetto cornice. The sinuosity continues throughout the buffet, as all four outer doors have been carved with a double curve. An equally impressive apron follows suit, with a protruding center section above two block feet festooned with several layers of molding, flanked by a pair of half-bun feet with identical step molding beneath the cyma recta section of the apron. When opened, the upper body doors reveal three shaped shelves per side, while the lower body has single shelves in all three compartments (the outer shelves are shaped, while the shelf behind the center doors is more traditional). The wood has a lovely deep brown patina that has been accentuated by several applications of French wax. Suitable for a variety of purposes, the buffet can be used in a dining room as originally intended. It could also be used in a study or den as a fantastic dry bar or perhaps in an entry hall with a sculpture or statue installed in the niche. Our period Regence walnut buffet de boiserie will certainly be the focal point of whichever room it is featured. Measurements of niche opening: H – 57 1/2, W – 34, D – 22 1/2. History as presented to Le Louvre French Antiques...

This late 18th century French walnut buffet or sideboard features hand pegged paneled sides and and a beveled top. Its two doors are classic Louis XIV designs with symmetrical rectan...

What an amazing buffet with inlay and elm in the center doors. This buffet comes from the south west of France.

This elegant antique oak “Confiturier” (French for jelly cabinet) was crafted in Normandy, circa 1920. The provincial cabinet stands on square feet over a straight bottom plinth; it ...

Antique Louis XIV Buffet in bleached oak. This example, created from local white oak, features a panel front design accentuated by complex, contoured moldings on each end as well as ...

this seven foot long antique buffet was crafted in France circa 1780. The sturdy sideboard stands on thick tapered legs over a straight and carved apron. The traditional enfilade fea...

Assembled by a French artisan from Provence during the 1900’s, this painted buffet has incorporated a pair of 18th century cabinet doors into the Louis XIV style construction. Both repurposed doors open on iron hinges to reveal a greige colored interior with a full-length shelf. The exterior has expertly been painted in polychromatic French gray green, which is a hard to duplicate color that originated in Provence. Similar in structure to a bas d’armoire (bottom cabinet), the buffet has a thick plinth base and no drawers on the upper frieze. The top has quarter round molding that is also seen along the edges of the doors. Cavetto molding surrounds the center door panels, which are rectangular with arbalete shaped tops. The moldings of the doors, side panels, plinth, and flutings are painted in a pleasing, aged, cream colored paint. A well-crafted and handsome Louis XIV style buffet, the Provencal menuisier did an exceptional job of meshing the antique cabinet doors...