Cabinets

Antique Eastlake Ornate Carved Walnut Double Glass-Door Bookcase/Display Cabinet This gorgeous double door display case features three glass shelves, a beautifully designed mirrored...

Sn4352 Superb quality and very stylish late Victorian display cabinet / vitrine of serpentine outline, having moulded cornice above string inlaid frieze and glazed door enclosing new...

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style Ormolu Mounted Kingwood, Satinwood and Vernis Martin Decorated Single-Door Vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The wh...

Italian Louis XV Style Marquetry Inlaid Mahogany Vitrine Cabinet. Two adjustable height glass shelves. Yellow Velvet floor. Perfect for small as well as for large spaces. Measures 2...

From Provence, France, this beautiful walnut panetiere was hand-carved in the 1700’s. Panetieres were usually hung on walls and functioned as a decorative way keep bread safe...

The definition of elegance, this stunning Louis XV display cabinet from the late-18th century is crafted from European oak with exceptional ca...

A lovely quality mid 19th Century flame mahogany chiffonier / cabinet, having a shaped and moulded carved scrolled pediment above a two shelves with oval flame mahogany back panels,...

A fine French 19th-20th century Louis XV Style gilt bronze-mounted, Mahogany and Tulipwood Marquetry Side Cabinet/Secretaire in the style of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender s...

Antique French Louis XV style bronze mount hand painted curio display cabinet. Item features a hand painted door front, finely cast bronze ormolu, fabri...

A Fine Pair of French 19th-Century Louis XV-style Marquetry and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Meuble d'Appui Side-Cabinets with marble tops. Each single-door satinwood veneer side cabinet is c...

An exceptionally beautiful and very well made antique French marble top cabinet, dating from around the 1920-30’s. It is of very fine qualit...

Cylindrical with white marble top and carved and shaped border with conforming fluted case section with a door. Plinth base.

Beautiful Louis XV period armoire in cherrywood. Masterfully carved floral details in relief. Two drawers, one with original lock. Door lock is also original and functional. Great or...

For sale is a fine 19th century satinwood serpentine display cabinet, inlaid with ebony stringing and edged with ebonized moulding, the uppe...

An antique 18th Century French Provincial panetiere, bread safe. Walnut with iron hardware. Features decorative carvings to cornice, door & apron, turned sp...

A fabulous quality 19th Century French Kingwood and ormolu mounted display cabinet / vitrine in the Louis XV style, the shaped top with ormolu beading along the edge and a highly dec...

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...

French Louis XV-style (19th Century) kingwood 2 door vitrine display cabinet with shaped glass sides and rust marble top

Large and very unusual glazed breakfront kitchen cabinet. Huge amount of storage. 1880. Top section wing depth is 18" and centre depth is 26". ...

French Louis XV-style (19th Century) kingwood 2 door vitrine display cabinet with bronze trim and shaped glass sides

A very fine Louis XV Style cabinet in the manner of Paul Sormani. This exquisite and very well proportioned cabinet is made of bois violette or kingwood, with well executed floral i...

Elevate your living space with this Pair of Antique Napoleon III Ebonized Demilune Shaped Side Cabinets, a remarkable display of opulence and craftsmanship. These cabinets are more t...

An 18th century French Louis XV Oak Buffet with two carved cabinet doors and cabriole feet. William Word Fine Antiques: Atlanta's source for ant...

A Truly Magnificent 19th century Secre´taire a` Abattant by Maison Rogie´ of Paris After the original in the Wallace Collection, London, made in 1777 by Pierre-Antoine Foullet Con...

A very fine and palatial French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood ornately carved two-door vitrine display cabinet of serpentine form with foliate and shell carvings, surrounding ...

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...

Fine quality antique Victorian French boulle display cabinet having a quality rectangular shaped ebonies top with a ornate ormolu mounted frieze fantastic single brass inlaid boulle ...

A charming and very unusual antique Victorian cabinet. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1860-1880 period. It is beautifull...

20th-Century Richly Inlaid Two-Leaf Cabinet With Marble Top A two-door cabinet styled after Louis XV, dated post-1945. The body of the furniture features beveled corners, set on a p...

Antique Victorian black forest carved round wall mirrror curio cabinet. Item features round beveled glass central mirror, carved "harvest" details, 1 swing door, working lock and key, 1 wooden shelf, very nice antique item...

An antique French Louis XV style console cabinet offers demilune form with painted faux marble top over case with single door having cameo of a woman and opening to shelved interior,...

Victorian mahogany 2 door side cabinet This cabinet stands upon a plinth base with turned feet Featuring 2 panelled doors which open to reveal 1 shelf We can ship to anywhere in the ...

A French late 18th century Louis XV style cherry two-part vaisselier with original hardware and open shelves over two drawers and two doors. This French buffet à deux-corps features ...

Victorian rosewood music cabinet being of very good quality. Note the retailers plaque " T. Wallis and Co Holborn Circus London) Raised upon a plinth base. circa 1880 The cabinet...

This is a splendid antique Victorian satinwood bedside cabinet, circa 1880 in date. The cabinet features quarter veneered satinwood with decorative ebonized line inlay. It has a f...

Stunning quality antique Victorian burr walnut inlaid pier cabinet having a quality burr walnut top above a walnut frieze with fantastic satinwood inlay, having a walnut door with a ...

A stunning quality satinwood display cabinet by Holland & Sons, the D- shaped outline form having moulded cornice above string inlaid frieze over a pair of glazed doors above fielded...

Mahogany bookcase, having ogee moulded cornice above a pair of glazed doors enclosing four adjustable shelves, the base having two short draws with carved wooden handles above two sh...

18th century oak enfilade from France with banded ends and beveled edges around the top. The sides are paneled and the front contains three paneled drawers over three raised paneled ...

A large English solid oak gun cabinet in the Romanesque manner, with a glazed (clear glass) lockable upper cabinet for eight guns, with a lockable dra...

French Louis XV-Style cabinet with an ornate design invented by the Martin brothers in France in the 19 th century. This technique was A special lacquer technique. The cabinet has ...

A Fine French 19th-20th century Louis XV style ormolu-mounted tulipwood vitrine with marble top, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door cabinet fitted w...

Late 19th century English oak server from the Ipswitch region of England. The top has a beveled edge over a molded edge, and follows down to paneled sides and two paneled doors in th...

A large French provincial buffet à deux corps from the early 19th century. Louis XV style. Solidly crafted in walnut. Two-part, high, laterally coffered, ornamentally and volute car...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare, original Globe Wernicke, haberdashery shops filing bookcase cabinet Please note the deliv...

Elegant Italian Louis XV Style cabinet with desk 1910s. This cabinet is characterized by a refined veneer in fine rosewood. The veneer is laid using the grain of the wood as a decora...

Antique gilt bronze and porcelain mounted dressing and writing cabinet French, late 19th century Measures: Height 100cm, width 44cm, depth 38cm This elegant cabinet functions as both a vanity and a writing table. The cabinet features a rectangular upper section finished with fine veneered wood. Each side of the top is centred with an oval porcelain plaque portraying flowers, while the corners feature gilt bronze figure mounts. The top of the cabinet hinges...

A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted bibliotheque, attributed to François Linke. This bookcase is lavishly mounted with ormolu, notably the busts of soldiers to the angles which are known as 'têtes des guerriers antiques'. The doors are quarter veneered with a diamond pattern in precious timber and enclose three adjustable shelves. French, Circa 1890 This impressive bookcase reprises the work of the celebrated Ancien Régime...

Louis XV style marble top cabinet with serpentine front with pale marble top with a moulded edge over five small drawers. Symmetrically arranged tulipwood parquetry veneers across th...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand carved Victorian Ebonised and Giltwood library bookcase Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it covers within t...

Antique French Louis XV style carved walnut and beveled glass two door display cabinet, circa 1880's.

A Very Fine French 19th-20th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu and Jasperware-Mounted Rosewood, Mahogany and Kingwood Single Door Vitrine, in manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The u...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning highly collectable Victorian oak housekeepers cupboard for linens or pots. A very charming and highly collectable piece, this is o...

Small Antique French Louis XV Style Gilt Wood Hanging Curio Cabinet C1900 Measures - 36"H x 22.5"W x 9"D A small antique French curio cabinet...

A pair of 19th century French serpentine commodes in the Louis XV manner. Each with a marble top above a frieze of one short drawer above a central door, the surfaces with scrub pai...

A super Victorian figured walnut dentist’s cabinet attributed to ‘The Dental Manufacturing Co. Ltd’ . The top with an arched back and three quarter moulded gallery with turned finial...

An exceptional 18th century French period Louis XV armoire handcrafted of indigenous old growth walnut and burled walnut in the typical technique mastered by the skilled artisans of ...

Walnut display cabinet the arched top over two central doors opening to reveal serviceable upholstered interior with two glazed shelves. Flanked by unusual concaved glass panelled si...