19th Century French Japonisme Cabinet Attributed to Gabriel Viardot

French 19th century Louis XVI style footstool. Carved walnut. Old upholstery shop label on bottom.

Pair of antique classical French salon drawings. Charcoal on paper. Illegibly signed. In giltwood frames, early 19th century.  

19th century Italian painted and parcel-gilt curio cabinet. Carved wood. Louis XVI style. Original damask silk interior. Fitted with an interior lig...

19th century Italian painted and parcel-gilt curio cabinet. Carved wood. Louis XVI style. Original damask silk interior. Fitted with an interior lig...

A 19th century French Japonisme style corner cabinet with sturdy burnt bamboo frame and solid rosewood panels. Above the cabinet is an open shelf supp...

A wonderfully stylized Japanned partners pedestal desk, having carved, inlaid and engraved classical decoration, an inset leather top, eleven drawers to one side, each with brass turtle handles, the reverse with engraved mother of Pearl inlaid doors, raised on carved cabriole legs. Attributed to; Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906) was a famous Parisian cabinetmaker specializing in the production of “Chinese-Japanese genre” furniture in the last third of the 19th century. He started his career as a wood sculptor in 1849, when he sent some naturalistic décor furniture...

Rare Japanese style cylinder desk in tinted and carved wood, richly engraved on all sides with foliage, cherry branches and geometric interlacing. Surmounted by two asymmetrical shelves, the cylinder is decorated with an engraved dragon. Opening this cylinder reveals many compartments with adjustable dimensions, a drawer with engraved decoration and letter storage. The cylinder sides can open laterally, allowing a larger area for working and writing. The lower part of the desk is formed on the left by five superimposed drawers decorated with geometric interlacing and carved branches, as well as Japanese characters, deer and mother-of-pearl foliage. On the right, there is a drawer and a door decorated with carved leaves and mother-of-pearl interlacing, revealing four drawers forming compartments. An ingenious mechanism makes it possible, when the cylinder is closed with a key, to completely lock the desk. Gabriel Viardot career began as a wood carver and he produced small furniture, sculpturally carved with naturalistic motifs and animals. In the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, his finely sculpted objects were well received. However, with the increasing importation of similarly produced Swiss and German articles, he found less opportunity for these and decided to innovate. G. Viardot succeeded to his father’s business in 1861 installed rue Rambuteau in Paris. Around 1870 he turned to the idea of producing « Meubles genre Chinois et Japonais ». The taste in Europe for exotic furniture, incorporating sometimes authentic Chinese or Japanese objects...

Charming vitrine in carved wood in the Japanese style: it is topped with a bronze dragon, and decorated with a woman in a bone and mother-of-pearl kimono, on the bottom of the highes...