French Demilune Chest

This is a beautiful 19th century French piece! The burled walnut has gorgeous natural design that is excellently showcased by the chest of drawer's boldly simple front. The wood has ...

This amazing 19th century French painted chest came right out of the south of France. It is so beautiful with its robin's egg color and white deta...

This is a beautiful mid 19th century French commode they would call it. We typically call them chest somehow another commode that doesn't sound fitting. This one is all original, wit...

This is a gorgeous French chest of drawers! This piece dates to the mid 19th century, and still has its original paint. The paint is fading in some areas to show the wood, which give...

This striking little demilune chest features exceptional inlaid mahogany in varying varieties that have been thoughtfully book matched and placed about ...

French Louis XVI Style Demilune Mahogany Vitrine / Showcase Cabinet Maison Jansen Louis XVI style chest or étagère. The nice bowed white marble top with a three-quarter pierced bras...

This wonderful French 18th century demilune (half moon) shaped sideboard or chest of drawers dating back to Louis XVI period (1774 -1791) -stamped by the French cabinet maker Tondeur- features great scale, perfect proportions and stunning high craftsmanship marquetry inlays. Two spacious sans travers drawers on front with antique original cast bronze hand crafted handles and a door on each side revealing a compartment with a shelf, all rests on four square tapered legs with a luxuriously veined Italian marble top featuring a beautiful grain and gorgeous soft colors including different shades of red, yellow, ocher, white and brown. This one of a kind magnificently inlaid commode featuring mother of pearl and bone inserts to enrich the central design and the allegories of music on the sides wich are a marquetry and cabinetmaking works of art themselves. The front houses two drawers with veneered sans travers marquetry with a central medallion masterfully inlaid depicting an unusual and whimsical scene: a fairy-tale rural countryside landscape with an old building that appears to be a church in the background, surrounded by a picturesque avenue of cypress and a monkey in the foreground picking up cocoa fruits from a tree - symbols of good luck and fortune- with a dog at its side. The round panel is finished with oval mother-of-pearl inserts, a ribbon inlaid on top all surrounded by a wreath of flowers and leaves . The inlays on the side doors are equally beautiful, so detailed as to seem painted. On each door, the marquetry is inspired by the theme of music, allegories with both wind and string instruments, sheet music and a hat all gathered in a magical composition enriched by floral inspired festoons, ribbons and tassels. The casework inside shows the mastery of the cabinetmaker and attention to detail, the doors are made of precious citronnier wood framed by an ebony band. This commode of narrow proportion is a wonderful example of 18th century French craftsmanship in storage cabinet making, entirely inlaid, stamped it is an exclusive one-of-a-kind Louis XVI period work of art certainly created for a very demanding and important client now ready to be the antique conversation...

Invite Classic French elegance into your home with this Louis XVI style fruitwood bombe chest of drawers. Crafted in Paris, circa 1960 and built of walnut wood with ormolu mounts acc...