Exhibition Quality 19th Century Ormolu-Mounted Amboyna Shaped Cabinet

Rare 17th Century Neapolitan Ebony Tortoiseshell and Mother of Pearl Cabinet From the Perego Collection in Monza, an important 17th Century Italian arch...

Of outstanding quality, an early 19th Century Regency ormolu mounted amboyna and ebony shaped side cabinet on tapering legs English circa 1810. Finely decorated with ebony bea...

An exhibition quality grand Italian walnut armchair carved in the Baroque style after Andrea Brustolon, possibly by the great Florentine carver Luigi Frullini...

An extremely fine 19th century French Louis XV Revival gilt ormolu mounted Kingwood bureau de dame / writing table. French, circa 1870. A very attractive and of the finest qua...

An exceptional quality and rare pollard oak 19th century architectural twin pedestal inverted breakfront sideboard. English, circa 1850. The quarter cut inverted breakfront top...

A fine late 18th Century George III Satinwood and sabicu ladies writing cabinet with important provenance. (Possibly by George Simpson) English London made - Circa 1785 Provenance Exhibited by W. R. Harvey in their Old Bond Street showrooms in 1986 and 1987, the piece being chosen to be advertised in Country Life magazine in 1986 and in the Grosvenor House...

Impressive 19th century French Napoleon III stone overlay ormolu mounted ebonized cabinet with black marble top. The shaped black marble top is over a gilt bronze mounted frieze in an leaf-tip motif with an egg and dart border, above a large single door...

A Vernis Martin cabinet in the Louis XVI manner Constructed in mahogany, with extensive ormolu mounts; the square rectangular tapering legs, d...

A High Quality Amboyna and Fire Gilt Bronze Vitrine in the manner of Holland Rising from a rectangular stepped plinth with everted corners, in well figured Amboyna; the glazed door having bead and reel decoration. The top edge having lobed decoration, and the fire gilt bronzes show a gadroon casting to the lower section, with architectural corbels. England Circa 1855 Holland & Sons Originally founded in 1803 by Stephen Taprell and William Holland, a relation of the architect Henry Holland, the firm of Holland & Sons soon became one of the largest and most successful furniture making companies in the 19th Century. The firm worked extensively for the Royal Family, being granted the Royal Warrant early in the reign of Queen Victoria, hence taking a leading part in the decoration and furnishing of Osborne House...

A rare and palatial late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted Louis XVI style marquetry and parquetry cabinet. A heavy marble-top above a bronze frieze with three paneled doors decorated with inlaid floral marquetry designs. The center door with gilt bronze bearded men faces, the bottom is centered by a mask of a beautiful woman with two lion paws on her sides and a pair of floral cornucopia above her. The sides of the cabinet are quartered veneered, standing on six spiral bronze...

A very fine late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted Louis XV style Vernis Martin cabinet. By Joseph Zwiener. The central section finely decorated door panel displaying an allegorical 'Vernis Martin' scene, within a gilt bronze banded frame. With finely cast acanthus and figurative gilt bronze mounts. Stamped ‘NZ’ for Zwiener on the back of the escutcheons and reverse of the bronze mask to the base. Born in Herdon, Germany, in 1849, Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener followed the tradition of some of the best ébnistes of the 19th century. He moved to Paris establishing a workshop at 12, rue de la Roquette, between 1880 and 1895. He produced a wide array of the very finest furniture, modelling in his own interpretations of the 18th century Louis XV Rococo style, veneered with the highest and finest quality marquetry and 'Vernis Martin' panels. Exhibiting at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, in 1889, Zwiener was awarded a Gold Medal for what the jury reported as 'dè ses dèbuts à une Exposition Universelle, [il] s'est mi au premier rang par la richesse, la hardinesse, et le fini de ses meubles incrustés de bronze et fort habilment marquetés.' Zwiener was closely associated with François Linke and the two houses produced work which, at first glance, is remarkably similar and with occasionally identical mounts. The similarities are made more likely by the fact that the brilliant sculptor, Léon Messagé, worked initially for Zwiener and subsequently, upon Zwiener's departure for Berlin to work on furniture commissioned by Freidrich Wilhelm II, he was employed in the workshop of François Linke. It appears that Zwiener, unlike Linke, did not sign all his work, although some stamped pieces with his name and/or his "Z" initial are documented. There is some uncertainty between the recorded stamp E. Zwiener and the work of a Julius Zwiener...

An Interesting late 19th century gilt bronze mounted Transitional style Chinoiserie cabinet by L. Bontemps L. Bontemps Marble top above three high doors, each with a coromandel...