Dutch Empire Mahogany Dressing Table, ca. 1840

19th Century Dutch safe, ca 1880 A Dutch safe with single door in green matte paint with hand-painted floral pattern. The interior is cream colored with shelf. The front has a bronz...

A Dutch oak tripod tilt-top table, ca 1840. A Dutch oak tripod rectangular tilt-top table on a turned stem raised on 3 curved legs. Dutch ca 1840. The surface of the blade has a b...

Dutch 18th Century mahogany cabinet A Louis XVI mahogany cabinet with straight hood with railings. An oak with mahogany veneer cabinet. ...

A 19th C miniature Dutch mahogany display cabinet, 104 cm high A Dutch mahogany display cabinet made of 1 whole piece with 3 drawers and behind the glass door 2 shelves. The shelves are covered with velour. A piece of work by an apprentice furniture...

French Empire style late 19th century mahogany small chest with 4 drawers and bronze trim with a black marble top.

The Rectangular top above three graduated recessed drawers flanked by three quarter rounded ebonized columns raised on plinth block feet.

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Antique burr walnut dressing table with carved feet. The dressing table contains ...

The desk body is made of pine and oak with a Karelian birch veneer and the mirrored base is supported by four curved feet, embellished by an entwined patinated bronze snake with a gilt head and tail. The pad feet are supported by ebonized mahogany floor plates. The middle portion consists of five small drawers and a large desk drawer and within a manufactured mahogany interior with seven compartments and eight secret compartments as well as two movable elements, one of which is covered with velvet. The lower drawers have gilt gooseneck fittings. The mirror attachment includes a mechanism for taking the mirror plate vertically out and up to 180 degrees, which can, in turn, be fixed in almost any position. This mirror is flanked by two carved mahogany phoenixes with gilt heads and feet, and on the reverse side there are two more secret compartments in the lower area of the right as well as the left foot of the base. The Poudreuse Secretary is an exceptional example of Russian furniture of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The depiction and symbolic arrangement of the remarkable bronze snakes and the carved phoenix is typical of the style of the important Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin (1759-1814). As well, this Poudreuse Secretary Desk has as well a similar structure to a dressing table made by the celebrated cabinetmaker (ebéniste) Heinrich Gambs...