French Stone Overlay Ormolu Mounted Cabinet, 19th Century

Outstanding pair of 19th century French gilt bronze mounted two-door meuble d'appui cabinets. The greyish black marble tops over two gilt bronze-mounted doors, revealing a shelf, fl...

Exquisite French Napoleon III semi-precious stone Jeweled and ormolu-mounted three door cabinet. 19th century. Moulded breakfront wood top trimmed with gilt bronze egg...

Unusual French pair of 19th century beautifully cut crystal ormolu-mounted two-light sconces with crystal urns in the center. Possibly Baccarat.

Extremely unusual pair of 19th century large French gilt bronze and cut crystal seven light candelabra each with seven scrolling foliate arms centered by a cut crystal ball above cry...

19th century French Louis XV style ormolu-mounted kingwood veneered console with marble top. Serpentine-fronted marble top over veneered frieze centered with a foliate motif ormolu m...

Spectacular and unique French Napoleon III ormolu mounted white marble mantel clock, 19th century. The clock is surmounted by a gilt bronze pineapple finial with ribbons over a porcelain clock face with Roman Numerals enclosed into an ormolu egg...

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

Impressive 20th century French Napoleon III stone overlay ormolu mounted ebonized cabinet with grey vetted marble top. The shaped grey marble top is over a frieze with gilt bronze...

Beautifully handmade, two piece solid cherry wood cabinet. Upper cabinet has chicken wire panel doors for displaying China or Books. Chicken...

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...

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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...