Ormolu Cupboards

A late 19th century floral marquetry two-door cabinet with Carrera marble top and gilt bronze mounts, French, circa 1880.

A french Louis XVI style grey marble topped Meuble d'Appui after a model by Mathieu Belfort.The ebonized cabinet is inlaid with brass and has all-over lavish gilded bronze mounts a...

A beautiful and impressive antique cabinet. I would say it’s French and dates from around the 1930-50’s period. It has gorgeous floral patterns and nice ormolu mounts throughout. It...

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...

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...

Pair of Victorian period amboyna cabinets with Sèvres style porcelain plaques English, late 19th century Dimensions: Height 108cm, width 77cm, depth 47cm This unusual and superb...

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

A fine late 19th century gilt bronze mounted Transitional style Marquetry cabinet By Durand The marble top above two long inlaid floral doors which o...

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...

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 Fantastic Quality Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Vernis Martin Cabinet By Paul Sormani Paul Sormani The upper tier of t...

A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Credence, Designed By Edouard Lievre, Attributed To Paul Sormani, In the neo-Renaissance style, the spreading pediment with Vitruvian scroll-fitted frieze, c...

This wonderful side cabinet was created in France in the 19th century. The cabinet is crafted from amboyna burl wood, with inlaid ebony wood decoration and gilt bronze (ormolu) mount...

A Pedestal by E. Kahn of Paris After a model by Jean-Henri Riesener Constructed in the Neo-Classical manner in fine specimen woods and high quality ormolu work; the incurved base, ...

An Excellent Quality Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Wedgwood Mounted Parquetry Vitrine The breakfront marble top above a scrolle...

Constructed in kingwood, with gilt bronze mounts; rising from bracket feet, the cabinets, a true left and right pair, have central doors dressed with well executed floral marquetry p...

A French empire ormolu-mounted mahogany console table cupboard, Circa 1825. With a white marble top and mirrored glass back. Very nice quality and delicate French bronze mounts. ...

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...

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...

A Very Fine Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Bronze gallery above a centered glass door, flanked by glass panels on top of a single, spring released dra...

A Wonderful Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry and Parquetry Cabinet by Maison Forest, Paris Maison Forest The breche violette marble top above a cente...

Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Inlaid Marquetry and Parquetry Cabinet By Theodore Millet By Theodore Millet The large marble t...

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...