Louis XVI Cupboards
LOUIS XVI STYLE
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
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Style: Louis XVI
French 19th Century Vernis Martin Cabinet with Ormolu Mounts
Located in London, GB
A Vernis Martin cabinet in the Louis XVI manner
Constructed in mahogany, with extensive ormolu mounts; the square rectangular tapering legs, d...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Floral Marquetry Side Cabinets with Marble Tops
Located in London, GB
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...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
20th Century French Single Door Cupboard Painted Louis XV Style
Located in Houston, US
20th C. French single door hand painted cupboard with painted faux bois top. Paint design indicative of the Louis XVI style. Great cabinet for a potential sink in a powder bath with ...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
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Wood
19th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Marble Top China Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Marble Top China Buffet is a masterpiece of the cabinetmaker's art! Meticulously hand-crafted from select French walnut, it features a stately, ...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Marble, Brass
19th Century French Louis XVI China Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century French Louis XVI China Buffet is one of a pair that we found, and the twin is available as of this writing, if you act fast! Hand-crafted from solid oak, it features a s...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Brass
19th Century French Louis XVI China Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century French Louis XVI China Buffet is one of a pair that we found, and the twin is available as of this writing, if you act fast! handcrafted from solid oak, it features a st...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Brass
French 19th Century Mahogany Wardrobe, Library or Custom Clothing Cabinet
Located in Miami, FL
French cabinet in the Louis XVI style, circa 1880, of important dimensions made with very fine quality mahogany. The two shallowest side sections measure 14 1/4" deep inside and the ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Mahogany
Louis XVI Library Cabinet, 18th Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb and rare small Louis XVI mahogany library cabinet from the 18th century
Very beautiful little piece which is decorated in the upper part with fake books...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Mahogany
18th Century Country French Louis XVI China Buffet, Bookcase
Located in Dallas, TX
18th Century Country French Louis XVI China buffet ~ bookcase is a wonderful combination on ancient Greek and Roman classicism with rustic rural French craftsmanship! Rendered from old-growth white oak and forged steel, it features a stately rectilinear casework with boldly mitered corners, each meticulously molded to create fine visual interest from all angles. Side panels are simulated by cut grooves in the solid planks, with flutes cut into the mitered corners, across the entire drawer tier in front, and even at the bottom of the lower cabinet panels. Stylized foliage also appears at the top of the cabinet door panels for an artistic touch. Steel barrel...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Steel
Howard & Sons Fine Inlaid Marble Top Side Cabinet Exhibition Quality
Located in Dereham, GB
Exceptional quality Victorian satinwood inlaid marble top side cabinet with floral painted centre panel, stamped on top of door Howard & Sons Berners St with numbers 15728 5113.
The...
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1870s English Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Satinwood
Pair of 19th Century French Kingwood & Ormolu Bedside Cabinets
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine pair of 19th century French gilt bronze mounted mahogany and satinwood pier cabinets, the rectangular mahogany tops above an acanthus frieze, above a brass banded door wi...
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19th Century Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Ormolu
Grand 19th Century French Louis XVI Walnut China Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
Grand 19th century French Louis XVI walnut China buffet is a stunning testament to the majesty of masterworks of the cabinetmaker's art that emanated from France during the period! M...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Brass
French Figural Bronze Mounted Collectors Cabinet Vitrine Manner Adam Weisweiler
By Adam Weisweiler
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a stunning 1900s era (1890-1920) vitrine or collector's cabinet designed in the manner of Adam Weisweiler one of France's best known cabinetmak...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Bronze
Louis XVI Style Cabinet or Small Cupboard with Marble Top, Bronze Gallery
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Louis XVI Style versatile cabinet or small cubboard with marble top and bronze gallery. Rectangular white marble top with rounded corners surrounded by a bronze pierced gallery. The ...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
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Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Commode Bronze Ormolu-Mounted Vitrine Buffet Sideboard Inlay
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Louis XVI Style Commode Bronze Ormolu-Mounted Vitrine Buffet Sideboard. Marble top two part French cabinet
Curved beveled glass vitrine. Outstanding inlay work. C.1920s piece in mint...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
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Walnut
18th Century Slim Mahogany Brass Mounted Louis XVI Swedish / Baltic Buffet
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Beautiful and slim mahogany veneered, pine, Gustav / Louis XVI cabinet with brass inlay and mounted details build by craftsmen in Baltic / Swedish regions early 18th century.
Allove...
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18th Century Swedish Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Brass, Steel
French Bronze and Leather Desk Cartioner
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French bronze and leather desk Cartioner, hardwood and Kingwood with bronze gallery, the lower case fitted with four 6" x 4" H x 9" D boxes, and two centre 12" x 4" H x 9" D boxes.
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
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Bronze
Louis XVI Style Demilune Buffet in Two Parts, Sideboard or Dry Bar, After Linke
Located in Madrid, ES
Early 20th century (circa 1900) Louis XVI style demilune / half moon "buffet à deux corps" or "buffet in two parts," closely following a design by François Linke. This finely-crafted...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
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Brass, Bronze
French Vitrine / cupboard in antique Louis XVI Style beech hand carved
Located in Berlin, DE
French cabinet in Louis Seize style
Solid beech, gilded. Rectangular, three-sided, faceted beveled, one-door body on conical legs. The door is partially provided with wickerwork. The front, corners and sides are decorated with carved...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Beech
18th Century Country French Painted Buffet a Deux Corps
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century Country French painted buffet a Deux Corps is a wonderfully preserved historically significant piece that is destined to enthrall your family for several more generation...
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Oak
Austria Louis XVI Armoire from, circa 1780
Located in Kastrup, DK
The two-door armoire or wardrobe has a cherry wood veneer with walnut fluting. Pierce-carved crown with dentil molding. Canted corners adorned with emerald green Egyptian caryatid pi...
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Late 18th Century Austrian Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Cherry, Walnut
French Display Cabinet, France, 1880
Located in Chorzów, PL
Display cabinet, France, 1930.
Very good condition.
Origin: France
Material: Walnut
Year: 1880
Dimensions: height 182 cm, width 100 cm, depth 40 cm.
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Walnut
Paul Sormani 'French' Lacquer Louis XVI Style Chinoiseri Wood Cabinet
By Paul Sormani
Located in New York, NY
Chinoiserie wood cabinet with ormolu mounts and a fitted marble top
by Paul Sormani (French, 1817-1877)
rectangular two-door cabinet, gilded and lacquer painted panels
Measures: H...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Lacquer
20th Century, Louis XVI Style Meuble D'appui Credenza Sideboard
By Joseph Stöckel
Located in Berlin, DE
Credenza / Meuble d'Appui after Joseph Stockel and Guillaume Benneman in the style of Louis XVI. Easily modified model according to a design by Joseph S...
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20th Century Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze, Hardwood & Marble Corner Cupboards
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Louis XVI style mahogany and walnut marquetry inlaid corner cabinets with gilt metal fittings and solid marble top
A very go...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Marble
18th Century Unique Louis Seize Classicism Hallway Cupboard circa 1790 Oak
Located in Berlin, DE
Unique Louis Seize hall cabinet-wardrobe from 1790
solid oak upright rectangular two-door body with profile-framed fields in the middle of each door a carved Amphora. Architectura...
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18th Century German Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Oak
18th Century Louis XVI Armoire Carved Walnut, South Germany, 1780
Located in Belmont, MA
This original 18th century Louis XVI armoire, which was made in South Germany around 1780, stands out for its finely carved walnut details. Festoons and flowers decorate the two door...
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1770s German Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Walnut
Floral Marquetry Two-Door Cabinet with Carrera Marble Top
Located in London, GB
A late 19th century floral marquetry two-door cabinet with Carrera marble top and gilt bronze mounts, French, circa 1880.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French Salon Vitrine in Antique Louis XVI Classicist Style Hand crafted
Located in Berlin, DE
Solid beechwood colored hand painted. Oval one- drawered combered and four-sided glassed body on high, brass-painted four edged legs, ending in sabots. Border and cornicing with fine...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Beech
Louis XVI Armoire, Lake Constance Region, 1770-80
Located in Belmont, MA
Exceptional Louis XVI Armoire, Lake Constance region, Germany 1770-1780, cherry wood with finely carved decorations. In very good refinished condition. ...
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1770s German Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
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Cherry
19th Century Ormolu and Specimen Wood Pedestal after Riesener
By Jean-Henri Riesener, E. Kahn
Located in London, GB
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, ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Louis XVI Green Armoire
Located in Washington, DC
A beautifully painted grey, Louis XVI armoire from either times Provence or Auvergne, French, late 18th century.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Wood
French Rosewood Demi Lune Parquetry Inlay Cabinet, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
A beautiful rosewood Demi Lune style cabinet. Grey and white marble top, above three drawers and having two side cabinet doors, all standing on tape...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Kingwood, Rosewood
19th Century Italian Sideboard Credenza, display cabinet , Walnut wax polished
Located in Vigonza, Padua
1880s very important Italian credenza sideboard con display cabinet , in walnut , with gendarme hat, classic of the time.
This furniture has become very rare and precious.
Measures...
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1820s Italian Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Walnut
Buffet A Deux Corps
Located in Washington, DC
Louis XVI painted greyish/green buffet a deux corps
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Wood, Paint
Painted Italian 18th Century Cupboard
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Painted 18th century Italian cupboard.
The cupboard retains its original paintwork, has a moulded cornice above a pair of doors. Featu...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Cupboards
Materials
Wood, Paint
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