Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Mahogany Meuble d'Appui

Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Mounted Oak Vitrine, 20th century, the glazed door enclosing three shelves. 67" H x 39" W x 15" D.

Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal and Green Enamel Ten-Light Candelabra, 20th century, each with a swag mounted urn issuing a central light and nine scrolled branches, on a lobed ba...

Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Mounted Kingwood Parquetry and Penwork Marquetry Demilune Commode, 20th century, the parquetry inlaid top above a frieze drawer and cupboard below on flute...

Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Twin Light Appliques, early 20th century, each with entwined branch and ribbon decoration, centered by an oval medallion of a female playing pipes....

A Fine French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Meuble d'Appui Cabinet with Marble Top. The serpentine walnut and satinwood body with three front drawers and a rolled ...

Lovely little Louis XV style sideboard in marquetry of violet wood trellis and Rio rosewood frames, rich ornamentation of very finely chiseled gilded bron...

Exceptional Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Parquetry Meuble d’Appui by Sormani The rectangular D-shaped Breccia marble-top over a gilt bead banded parquetry frieze mounted with...

Large Louis XVI style sideboard with central projection presenting a rich marquetry decoration, with trellis enclosing floral-inspired motifs on the front, diamond motifs on the sides. Different types of exotic precious wood are used such as sycamore, mahogany and amaranth. The Fleur de Pêcher marble top has a very artistic veining with a very rich palette of colors. Finally, the rich ornamentation of gilded bronze and very finely chiseled completes the whole, giving an elegant opulence to this unique and rare piece. Opening with three doors on the front. Work from the end of the 19th century. The bronzes are marked on the back ZJ, attesting to the prestigious origin of this piece of furniture. Some details on this subject: The "ZJ" mark has long been controversial among experts on 19th century Parisian furniture, some attributing these pieces of furniture to the Zwiener house, others claiming that they are pieces of furniture from the Jansen house, the latter having bought the Parisian workshops of the famous Zwiener brothers in 1895. We can cite for example Christopher Payne, the leading expert on the subject who writes in his book "Paris la quintessence du meuble au XIXème siècle" in the chapter on "Jansen Jean-Henri (1854-1929)" on page 396: "The initials "ZJ" affixed to the back of the bronzes have long been attributed to Jansen, cited as "Zwiener Jansen". However, we believe that these initials also refer to the furniture made in Berlin by Julius Zwierner and not necessarily to those of Jansen. To complicate things, Jansen bought the "ZJ" master models. The latter being mainly of the type and style of those originally modelled by Léon Messagé, who was an independent sculptor until the end of 1890." Along similar lines, Christopher Payne writes in the chapter on "Zwiener Emmanuel...