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Style: Belle Époque
French Marquetry Inlay Walnut Burl Secretary Slant Front Desk Writing Table
Located in Carimate, Como
Very elegant French secretary desk, writing table, with slant drop front and bottom drawers, with the beautiful inlay decors in classic figures all around the piece. When opened we f...
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Mid-20th Century French Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Brass
French Walnut Secretary Slant Front Desk Writing Table
Located in Carimate, Como
Very elegant desk, writing table, with slant drop front, with the beautiful carved decors in Classic figures all around the piece and saber legs. When opened we find the writing area...
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Mid-20th Century French Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Italian Marquetry Walnut Burl Secretary Slant Front Desk Writing Table
Located in Carimate, Como
Very elegant Italian desk, writing table, with slant drop front, with the beautiful light and dark wood inlay decors in classic figures all around the piece and the amazing bronze sc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Palatial Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine by François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A palatial and superb early 20th century gilt bronze Mounted Louis XVI style Mahogany Vitrine by François Linke
François Linke
The arched top with scrolled corners and centered by a laurel wreath and crossed acanthus branches, above a central large door at top by a lyre on drapery-covered plinth, flanked by scrolling acanthus, with a smaller door to each side hung with floral swags and with central oval plate, the divides cast with a slender flower-filled vase, the interior with adjustable shelves and drawers to the bottom, on shaped foliate-cast plinth and acanthus-capped tapering feet.
Inscribed F. Linke to the top right bronze mount and stamped “C LINKE” on the back of the locks.
Linke was born in Pankraz in Bohemia and was celebrated by the French as one of the greatest ébénistes of meubles de style at the turn of the century. He began his apprenticeship with a Bohemian master at the age of thirteen. Four years later, he toured Austria, settling and working in Vienna for two years. Linke arrived in Paris in 1875, and by 1881 he had established his own small workshop at 170 rue du Faubourg St. Antoine. Taking 18th century styles as his starting point and adapting earlier styles to contemporary taste, Linke produced fine quality furniture, steadily expanding his business during the next 20 years. He firmly established his reputation after receiving a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 for his extraordinary Grand Bureau. He continued to use international fairs as a means of exploring new markets, exhibiting at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, the Liege in Belgium and the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London. Linke’s highly original designs sprang from the Régence and Rococo styles but were imbued with something quite new – Rococo curves were laden with gilt-bronze sculptural mounts in the tradition of A.-C. Boulle (1642-1732) or Charles Cressent (1685-1758). Stylistically, the new designs still adhered to the Rococo; the novelty, however, was Linke’s fusion of the Rococo with the liveliness and the fluidity of the ‘art nouveau’. The Revue called Linke’s creations entierement nouveau, and continued to say that ‘Linke’s stand...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cabinet By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cabinet By François Linke
François Linke – Index no. 1108
Surmounted with a Brèche d’ Alep marble top, above a frie...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Exceptional Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine by François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany Vitrine By François Linke
François Linke – Variant to Index no. 1552
The shaped fleur de pecher marble ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
A Fantastic Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fantastic Late 19th/Early 20th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By François Linke
François Linke – Index no. 599
Brèche d’ Alep marble top above one long bronze mounted drawer, the center two drawers bronze mounted with floral wreath and bird, the base mounted with a tambourine and flowing curtains.
Signed F. Linke to the right-hand chute, locked stamped Ct. Linke and the number 599.
Pictured on Page 493 and Daybook Entry on Page 477 in “François Linke 1855-1946 The Belle Epoque of French Furniture” By Christopher Payne.
Designed in 1900, this model commode was conceived en suite with a dressing table, index number 600, and a double bed, number 601. Although clearly started in 1899, a note in the Blue Daybook shows that the ciseleur enriched the chasing on the bronzes much later, in September 1902, and with a fleur de pêcher marble top costing 110 francs. Whereas two of the matching beds and dressing tables were made, Linke made five versions of this commode between 1899 and 1910, with one example made for the compagnie nationale de Buenos-Aires in 1908.
Linke was born in Pankraz in Bohemia and was celebrated by the French as one of the greatest ébénistes of meubles de style at the turn of the century. He began his apprenticeship with a Bohemian master at the age of thirteen. Four years later, he toured Austria, settling and working in Vienna for two years. Linke arrived in Paris in 1875, and by 1881 he had established his own small workshop at 170 rue du Faubourg St. Antoine. Taking 18th century styles as his starting point and adapting earlier styles to contemporary taste, Linke produced fine quality furniture, steadily expanding his business during the next 20 years. He firmly established his reputation after receiving a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 for his extraordinary Grand Bureau. He continued to use international fairs as a means of exploring new markets, exhibiting at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, the Liege in Belgium and the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London. Linke’s highly original designs sprang from the Régence and Rococo styles but were imbued with something quite new – Rococo curves were laden with gilt-bronze sculptural mounts in the tradition of A.-C. Boulle (1642-1732) or Charles Cressent (1685-1758). Stylistically, the new designs still adhered to the Rococo; the novelty, however, was Linke’s fusion of the Rococo with the liveliness and the fluidity of the ‘art nouveau’. The Revue called Linke’s creations entierement nouveau, and continued to say that ‘Linke’s stand...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Exceptional Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Lacquer Commode, Henry Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Lacquer Commode By Henry Dasson
Henry Dasson
A beautiful shaped Rosso Levanto marble top above two long and deep...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Outstanding 19th Century French Rosewood Ormolu Bronze Mounting Vitrine Curio
Located in Roslyn, NY
This beautiful Classic is an early 1900s French rosewood vitrine with beautiful bronze ormolu-mounted details. There are two glass shelves in the top portion with a wonderful mirrore...
Category
1890s French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
1960s Italian Designer Drinks Cabinet, Inlaid and Decorated with Etchings
Located in Baambrugge, NL
Beautiful Italian bar cabinet made in the 1960s from beechwood fineered with mahogany.
Inlaid with leaf shaped decorations.
Vintage drinks cabinet...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Beech, Cherry
Unique Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Unique and Palatial Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XIV Style Cabinet By François Linke
François Linke – Index Number 490
The rare Baixas Breccia marble top above a b...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
A Fantastic Quality Mid 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By Pretot
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fantastic Quality Mid 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Mahogany Commode
By Pretot
A marble top above a frieze applied with scrolling-vine mounts and fronted by tw...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Marquetry Cabinet By Francois Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Lovely Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry Cabinet By Francois Linke
Item # CC1528
The fleur de pecher marble top above four doors, each with beautifu...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Wonderful 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Palace Size Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Wonderful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Palace Size Cabinet
Marble top above two doors, centered by a lovely female mask, the sides of bearded men...
Category
19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Sevres Style Dressing Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Sèvres Style Dressing Table
This wonderful and rare table is mounted by over twenty three individual porcelain plaques de...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Mounted Boulle Style Marquetry Cabinet, Winckelsen
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine napoléon III gilt bronze mounted engraved brass, pewter and tortoiseshell inlaid boulle style marquetry side cabinet
Attributed to Charles-Guilluame Winckelsen - After the model by André-Charles Boulle
Engraved brass, pewter, red and brown tortoiseshell première and contrepartie marquetry, surmounted by a marble top, the central paneled door opening to four drawers, below a bronze medallion of Louis XIV with the motto Ludovicus Magnus...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Pewter
Stunning Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry Cabinet -François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Stunning Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Hand-cut Floral Marquetry Cabinet By François Linke
François Linke
Brèche d’Alep serpentine fronted marble top, abov...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Fantastic Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrines by Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fantastic Pair of Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Demilune Vitrines By Paul Sormani
Paul Sormani
Each with balustrade galleries and raised on spiral decorat...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry Cabinet by Durand
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Marquetry Cabinet by Durand
Gervais-Maximilien-Eugene Durand
The Brèche d' Alep marble top above two long inlai...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Kingwood, Wedgwood, Ormolu, and Marble Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period Kingwood, Wedgwood, ormolu, and Vert de Patricia marble cabinet. The one door, one drawer ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Rare and Palatial Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Marquetry Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Interesting 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Chinoiserie Cabinet by L. Bontemps
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Chinoiserie Cabinet by L. Bontemps
L. Bontemps
The rectangular breakfront pink quartz top above three high d...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th century Ebony, Coromandel, Ormolu and marble cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and most impressive French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Epoque Period Ebony, Coromandel, Ormolu and Portoro marble cabinet. This exceptional Commode A Porte (commod...
Category
19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Exceptional Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Commode by Henry Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Commode By Henry Dasson
Henry Dasson
A marble top above a frieze set with three drawers with pierced laurel decoration and ribbon tied foliate wreaths, over three garland-hung cupboard doors each with shelves, flanked by concave corners fitted with a freestanding baluster form column, the sides similarly decorated and standing on toupie feet.
Signed Henry Dasson 1879 to the bronze mount on the side and stamped Henry Dasson 1879 twice to the back of the carcass.
After the very famous 18th century model by Martin Carlin.
Henry Dasson was considered one of the finest makers of gilt bronze mounted furniture in the nineteenth Century. He established a workshop at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, and specialised in the production of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture using the very finest ormolu mounts with the highest quality mercury gilding. In 1871, Dasson purchase Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen business and remaining stock.
Dasson exhibited at the 1878 and 1889 Paris Exhibition. He displayed Louis XV and XVI styles as well as pieces of his own modified eighteenth century design. The exhibits in 1878 included a table entirely in gilt bronze, purchased by Lord Dudley.
Martin Carlin (ca 1730 – 1785) was a Parisian ébéniste, born at Freiburg, who was received master at Paris in 1766.
Carlin worked at first in the shop of Jean-François Oeben, whose sister he married. He set up independently in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an unfashionable quarter of Paris, where few of his wealthy clientele would have penetrated. Carlin sold his works exclusively to marchands-merciers such as Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre, who acted as decorator-designers. It was only through these entrepreneurs that Carlin could acquire the Sèvres porcelain plaques that decorate many of his pieces. His earliest such pieces are datable by the marks on their porcelain to 1766; they followed designs supplied by the dealer Poirier. Although Martin Carlin made some larger pieces— secrétaires à abattant (drop-front secretary desks), tables, and commodes— he is best known for refined small furnishings...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Gilt Bronze-Mounted Marquetry Cabinets by Durand
Located in London, GB
Gervais Durand was an exceptional furniture maker of the later 19th century, known especially for his reproductions of 18th Century works, but also responsible for some strikingly or...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Chest of Drawers By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XV Style Chest of Drawers By François Linke
François Linke
Surmounted by a Brèche d’Alep marble top above a pair of short drawers, a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Coromandel Lacquer Cabinet by Maison Forest
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Coramandel Lacquer Cabinet By Maison Forest
By Maison Forest
A fine marble top above a single bronze mounted drawe...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Nice Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Parquetry Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Nice Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Parquetry Cabinet
Marble top above two doors. each door centered by a Bacchus mask within sunburst veneer, the corner...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Exceptional Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Vitrine by François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Parquetry Vitrine By François Linke
François Linke – Index no. 458
The fleur de pêcher marble top above a scro...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Fine 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Cabinet by Joseph Zwiener
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry and Parquetry Cabinet by Millet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Inlaid Marquetry and Parquetry Cabinet By Theodore Millet
By Theodore Millet
The large marble t...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Fine Pair of Late 19th Century Bronze and Sevres Porcelain Cabinets by Gillows
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Very Fine Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mounted Kingwood Cabinets
Gillows of Lancaster and London
The upper section with a pair of doors with Sèvres style porcelain plaques painted with a flower filled urn, the lower section with a frieze drawer with floral decorated plaques, raised by four legs joined by a “X” stretcher.
Stamped on the wood drawer Gillow.
Robert Gillow established his company around 1730. It was widely considered one of the most important British cabinet making firms. Trading first...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Lacquer Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Lacquer Cabinet
Marble top above a bronze mounted drawer, with a double door with lacquered landscape scenes that opens fo...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Special 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Parquetry Secretaire a Abattant
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Special Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Parquetry Secretaire a Abattant
The shaped marble top above a long center frieze drawer with a large central bronze plaque of putti at play, the beautiful parquetry drop-down door centered with an elliptical gilt bronze panel depicting ”A Sacrifice to Love”, a classically dressed woman presenting an infant to Cupid, who stands on a pedestal, the plaque has ribbon tied flowers, the inside centered with a mirror surrounded by drawers and pigeonholes, the fall-front itself provides a black leather writing surface, the bottom doors opening to two more drawers and a shelf, the sides decorated with similar parquetry designs.
This piece is a copy of the 18th century Secretaire by Jean-Henri Riesener which is presently in the Wallace Collection...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Mid-19th Century Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Mounted Boulle Style Cabinet & Mirror
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mid-late 19th century monumental Napoleon III gilt bronze mounted ebony, red tortoiseshell and designed brass Boulle style cabinet and mirror
Each Boulle style marquetry panel wit...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Lacquer Vitrine Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fine Late 19th Century Transitional Style Gilt Bronze and Lacquer Vitrine Cabinet
The large gilt bronze and all glass single door vitrine above a fine two door lacquered cabinet ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Belle Époque Period Cabinet Possibly by Maison Krieger
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period Mahogany, Kingwood, Tulipwood, burl wood, ormolu and white Carrara marble cabinet possibly by Ma...
Category
19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble
Very Nice 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By Haentges Freres
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Very Nice Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By Haentges Freres
Haentges Freres
A marble top above a bronze frieze, with one long drawer decorated with...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Unique Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique late 19th century gilt bronze mounted parquetry cabinet by François Linke and Léon Messagé
François Linke and Léon Messagé
This unusual cabinet features a cube parquetry top with a back splash centered with a plume of bronze feathers and flowers, above a long single drawer with a bronze leaf-clasped scallop shell and two handles shaped as wings, the sides headed by foliate and flower-cast clasps. The cabinet was most likely made to store magazines or original phonograph records.
Stamped FL under many of the bronze mounts, the lock stamped CT LINKE/PARIS
Linke was born in Pankraz in Bohemia and was celebrated by the French as one of the greatest ébénistes of meubles de style at the turn of the century. He began his apprenticeship with a Bohemian master at the age of thirteen. Four years later, he toured Austria, settling and working in Vienna for two years. Linke arrived in Paris 1875, and by 1881 he had established his own small workshop at 170 rue du Faubourg St. Antoine. Taking 18th century styles as his starting point and adapting earlier styles to contemporary taste, Linke produced fine quality furniture, steadily expanding his business during the next 20 years. He firmly established his reputation after receiving a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 for his extraordinary Grand Bureau. He continued to use international fairs as a means of exploring new markets, exhibiting at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, the Liege in Belgium and the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London. Linke’s highly original designs sprang from the Régence and Rococo styles but were imbued with something quite new, Rococo curves were laden with gilt-bronze sculptural mounts in the tradition of A.-C. Boulle (1642-1732) or Charles Cressent (1685-1758). Stylistically, the new designs still adhered to the Rococo; the novelty, however, was Linke’s fusion of the Rococo with the liveliness and the fluidity of the ‘art nouveau’. The Revue called Linke’s creations entierement nouveau, and continued to say that ‘Linke’s stand...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Large Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Gilt Metal Mounted Vitrine
Located in London, GB
Large late 19th century french neoclassical gilt metal mounted vitrine
Measures: Height 184cm, width 121cm, depth 46cm
This excellent display cabinet is a large late nineteenth c...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Metal
Fine Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Vitrine Cabinet by Henri Picard
By Henri Picard
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted double vitrine cabinet
By Henri Picard
The vitrine fitted with a nice inset marble top, the upper cabinet with a long single drawer and bronze women busts on the corners. The bottom part with ram heads and centered with cornucopia and a lions mask.
Stamped HPR, for Henri Picard, on the back of some bronzes.
The important fondeur and doreur Henri Picard worked in Paris from 1831-1884, most notably for the Emperor Napoléon III. He was based in Paris at 6, rue Jarente from 1831 to 1839, before moving to 10, rue de la Perle...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
Exceptional 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vernis Martin Cabinet By Beurdeley
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Vernis Martin, Marquetry and Parquetry Cabinet By Beurdeley
Louis Auguste Alfred Beurdeley
The serpentine shape...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Rare 19C Portois & Fix Viennese Cabinet
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A STUNNING and RARE 19C Portois & Fix Viennese Cabinet.
Made by the famous and highly desirable maker, ‘Portois & Fix’ in Vienna, Austria ...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by J.B.A. Lanneau
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful late 19th century Napoleon III gilt bronze mounted carved ebonized cabinet.
By J.B.A. Lanneau.
Top drawer surmounted by a black portor marble-top, large single door with floral bronze designs, centered by a carved shield. Gilt bronze lion paw feet.
Stamped Lanneau to the carcass.
The firm was founded by Lanneau Pere circa 1855-1880 at 9, rue Saint-Ambroise. They exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867 and Vienna World Exposition...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Wonderful 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine by Joseph Zwiener
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful late 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted vitrine by Joseph Zwiener.
Joseph Zwiener
The serpentine-shaped brèche d’ alep marble top above a single centered glass door, flanked to each side by a conforming panel, the mirrored interior fitted with three adjustable glass shelves, the canted angles set with pierced foliate-cast clasps, above a bombé shaped apron, on cabriole legs with scrolled-acanthus sabots.
The quality of the cabinetry and solid wood frame, along with the quality and design of the mounts, is characteristic of Zwiener’s oeuvre. Similar flower-filled cornucopia chutes can be found on other Zwiener models.
Born in Herdon, Germany, in 1849, Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener followed the tradition of some of the best ébnistes of the nineteenth 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 eighteenth 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...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Belle Époque Cabinets
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Belle Époque cabinets for sale on 1stDibs.
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