Louis XV Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

Small Antique French Louis XV Style Gilt Wood Hanging Curio Cabinet C1900 Measures - 36"H x 22.5"W x 9"D A small antique French curio cabinet...

With serpentine rectangular top over three conforming drawers and a carved shaped apron raised on cabriole legs and scroll feet. Paneled sides. Provenance: Fogg Estate, Chestnut Hill...

An arched cornice culminates in a beautifully pierced, foliated design incorporating flowers, ruffles, and scrolled leaves atop this oak vitrine. The arched, double doors with glass...

A very fine Louis XV style commode in honeyed medium-light brown wood with parquetry throughout. The top features a bowed curve around the front, with finely figured veneers detaile...

An impressive and very high quality French 19th century Louis XV st. Mahogany, tulipwood and ormolu bureau plat desk. The three drawer desk is raised by elegant cabriole legs with ha...

Fine transitional Louis XV - Louis XVI style, three drawer commode d'apparat. Extensively inlaid with floral decoration and geometric marquetry, fitted with fine gilt bronze mounts a...

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style Ormolu Mounted Kingwood, Satinwood and Vernis Martin Decorated Single-Door Vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The wh...

A superb pair of antique French burr walnut bedside cabinets. They were made in France, and they date from around the 1920’s. They are of fine quality and are a very useful size. Th...

18th Century French walnut armoire with doors strongly moulded in many curves and counter-curves. The “chapeau de gendarme” cornice richly carved f...

Exceptional quality vitrine with mirrored back having four glass shelves. Beautifully cast bronze dore mounts decorate this piece. Beveled glass ...

A fine 18th century Louis XV three-drawer carved walnut commode, original decorative brasses, nicely shaped skirt, paneled sides, supported by carved cabriole legs with scrolled feet...

Vintage Louis XV Style Carved Walnut 2 Drawer Chest Italian Small Bombe Commode. Item features original label, 2 drawers, finely carved details, cabriole legs, beautiful wood grain, ...

A French late 18th century Louis XV style cherry two-part vaisselier with original hardware and open shelves over two drawers and two doors. This French buffet à deux-corps features ...

Elegant Italian Louis XV Style cabinet with desk 1910s. This cabinet is characterized by a refined veneer in fine rosewood. The veneer is laid using the grain of the wood as a decora...

An impressive and high quality French 19th century Louis XV st. Tulipwood, Exotic Wood, Ormolu and Rouge Royale marble buffet. The buffet is raised by four cabriole legs with top scr...

Crafted in France circa 1920, the vintage commode stands on cabriole legs, over a scalloped apron decorated with a center bronze shell and leaf motif mount. The petite fruit wood che...

Excellent French Louis XV period armoire built with book matched panels. This is a monumental piece!

A fine 19th century Italian Louis XV style bronze mounted cabinet with vitrine. Made of solid walnut and pine as a secondary wood. Beautifully patterned book-matched veneers of walnu...

Petite Louis XV Period Commode in Tulipwood with bronze dore mounts & grey marble top, France 18th century.

The fine workmanship demonstrated in the fine marquetry Makes this piece especially fine. The bronze mounts are Well cast and have a brilliant gilt hue. The shaping of this Piece is...

This is a superb, absolutely breathtaking dore' bronze mounted carrara marble top commode. The unmistakable Louis XV styling is accentuated with the best jewelry quality gold dore' o...

Beautiful French Louis XV marquetry walnut commode having 3 drawers, brass hardware and caramel and cream beveled marble top – all original. #442.

Add extra surface space and storage to a living room with this elegant, antique carved “Buffet de Chasse” or "Hunt Buffet". Hand carved in Lyon F...

Pair of French commodes with conforming specimen marble tops and two drawers with large cartouche form bronze mounts with trailing leaves and vines and handles that are part of the v...

2 drawers. 3 shelves on top with 2 glass doors. 2 doors at bottom. 90 3/4" h x 51 7/8" w x 21" d. Condition Chips in wood. Scratches. Finish loss. Missing wood.

This exquisite 19th-century French bonnetière, crafted in solid cherrywood, beautifully combines the rustic simplicity of southern bastide furniture with the refined elegance of the ...

A fine 18th century Louis XV period commode from the town of Nîmes in Provence. Made of solid walnut with serpentine front and ra...

A Fine Louis XVth Style Meuble a Hauteur D'Appui In the Manner of J-E. Zwiener Constructed in Bois Violette, with well executed floral inlays, and having extensive gilt bronze moun...

A gorgeous French Country Louis XV style white oak sideboard buffet or server By Baker Furniture USA, circa 1960s Measures: 39.13" W x 18"...

French Louis XV style kingwood veneer commode, the shaped marble top above a bombe case with ormolu bronze mounts, highly decorated throughout with marquetry inlay with three drawers...

A French Louis XV carved-wood commode, with subtle serpentine front, from the 18th century. This antique chest from France has a shapely top with scalloped sides and serpentine front...

Antique French Walnut China Cabinet, Vitrine, Bookcase or Armoire, probably constructed over 200-years ago. Our Old Plank restoration department, went through the Armoires structure,...

Louis XV commodes, such as this gorgeous, bleached example from the 1920s, are known for their smooth lines and exquisite marquetry patterns. Notice the exaggerated curves of the sid...

Karges Louis XV Bombe Serpentine Bowfront Chest of Drawers in Walnut, Late 20thC Offered for sale is a late 20th-century Karges Furniture Company Louis XV Bombe Chest...

A large French provincial buffet à deux corps from the early 19th century. Louis XV style. Solidly crafted in walnut. Two-part, high, laterally coffered, ornamentally and volute car...

An 18th century French Louis XV buffet à deux corps made from thick planks of solid walnut. Excellent craftsmanship and grand in scale at 10 feet tall, the provenance of this buffet ...

An exceptional and handsome French 18th century Louis XV period walnut commode Bordelaise. The bombée shaped commode is raised on four scrolled cabr...

Lovely French Vitrine in the Louis Xv style This Vitrine is Bombe Shaped and Extremely Elegant with Gilt Bronze Ormolu Mounts and Very Finely Painted Panels Dates C1880s.

Early 19th Century French Louis XV Style Carved Walnut Buffet Deux Corps

A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry cylinder bureau. Stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts 'PB'. The top of Sarrancolin marble above a tambour with a central mount depicting Minerva. The marquetry depicting allegories of Geography and Astronomy. The interior has a green-leather covered pull out writing slide below an arrangement of drawers and cubby-holes. The back and sides intricately inlaid with marquetry of military and Maritime trophies. The sides with pullout leather-lined slides. The kneehole with a frieze drawer and three short drawers to the sides. France, Circa 1880. This desk is inspired by the bureau de roi, begun by Jean-François Oeben and completed by Jean-Henri Riesener for Louis XV in 1769 (now at Versailles) featuring similar marquetry panels, as well as a bureau à cylindre, also by Riesener, formerly thought to have been made for King Stanislas of Poland, but now identified as being supplied to the comte d'Orsay (now in the Wallace Collection). The present lot is however most similar in form to a secrétaire à cylindre...

This is a beautifully made, time-worn Italian take on a French design. The piece has a great original finish and exhibits 100 years of use but does it nicely. The cabinet can be used...

A Fine Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Table Vitrine by François Linke. French, circa 1900. Linke Index Number 131. The lockplate signed 'F.Linke', the mounts variousl...

A very fine and palatial French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood ornately carved two-door vitrine display cabinet of serpentine form with foliate and shell carvings, surrounding ...

A handsome and large scale French 18th century country French Louis XV period walnut buffet. The buffet raised by Roqvillard supports has an elegant scalloped frieze with a carved ce...

A grand scale 18th century French Louis XV Period bibliothe`que, or bookcase, from the Loire Valley. Made of solid cherry wood with chestnut as a secondary wood and constructed in tw...

Elegant exquisitely handmade carved walnut French commode from the 18th century featuring a carved ripple front with shell pulls that are part of the body. The intricately carved b...

19th Century French Louis XV Style Commode or Chest. This stunning French Louis XV style ebonized two drawer chest has beautiful gilt bronze hardware and the original locks and key....

John Widdicomb made in England pair of painted Bombe marble-top chests. Each chest with oak secondaries in the Louis XV Fashion having painted leaf, vine and scroll design on an off-...

A rather unusual French commode, given the approximate width of 60 inches, this sculpted oak chest of drawers was hand-carved circa 1860. A relatively thin (1 1/8 inch in depth) orig...

This is a fine French Louis XV fruitwood armoire. There is a shaped cornice over wide frieze with ornamental carving and two long doors with beveled...

Jean-Baptiste II Tuart is the son of Jean-Bapstiste I Tuart, one of the cabinetmakers supplying the Court under Louis XV. Trained by his father with whom he worked for a time, he the...

Beauty abounds in this petite carved vitrine from the late-19th century. Crafted from European Oak with a medium finish that does not hide the oak's beautiful grain, the vitrine feat...

A large pair of French Louis XV style bookcases in a yellow and white painted finish. These wonderful cabinets are handcrafted and hand...

A fine French 19th-20th century kingwood and tulipwood marquetry and gilt-bronze mounted vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door display cabinet with a red-velvet backing and bowed glass panels surmounted with acanthus and floral gilt-bronze mounts in the style of Léon Messagé (French, 1842-1901), the serpentine shaped front door with an ornate marquetry and ink colored panel depicting wreaths, ribbons and tied acantus leaves, all raised on four cabriolet legs ending with gilt-bronze paw-feet, Paris, circa 1900. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinet maker, Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873. He subsequently travelled to Prague, Budapest & Weimar before finally arriving in Paris in 1875. It is documented that he obtained employment with an unknown German cabinetmaker in Paris, and stylistic similarities, photographs and geographical proximity have led some to suggest that Emmanuel Zwiener was the most likely candidate. After a period back in his home town of Pankratz, he returned once and for all to Paris in 1877. In 1878 Paris hosted the third great International Exhibition, a remarkable success for a country ravaged by war only seven years earlier. It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger. By 1889 another World’s Fair, as they were often referred to in America, took place in Paris. Monsieur Eiffel erected what has become the most iconic building in Paris for the exhibition and the atmosphere of wealth and confidence may well have encouraged Linke to think that he could contribute an important part to the next great exhibition. As early as 1892 this was decreed to take place at the end of the century, in an attempt to pre-empt Berlin from staging the last great show of the century. In 1892, Victor Champier (fr) one of the commissioners for the 1900 Paris Fair had appealed, “Create in the manner of the masters, do not copy what they have made”. It was an appeal against mere reproduction and Linke rose to this challenge in an unparalleled way with his unique display that was to include the Grand Bureau. Determined to outshine the competition at the Exhibition, Linke had set about creating the most ambitious pieces he could envisage, and more extravagant than had ever been displayed before. The items he exhibited marked a transition from the historicist interpretation of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, an interpretation that was the mainstay of his nearest rivals, to something startlingly new and vital in its immediacy. [6] Together with Léon Messagé he developed a new style for the 1900 Exhibition that paid homage to the Louis XV rococo in the fluidity of its approach, but an approach fused with the lively flowing lines of the contemporary and progressive 'art nouveau'. The Art Journal reported in 1900 on Linke's stand: "The work of M. Linke ... was an example of what can be done by seeking inspiration amongst the classic examples of Louis XV and XVI without in any great sense copying these great works. M. Linke's work was original in the true sense of the word, and as such commended itself to the intelligent seeker after the really artistic things of the Exhibition. Wonderful talent was employed in producing the magnificent pieces of furniture displayed". Linke's stand would have appeared refreshingly new to contemporary onlookers, the traditional designs of the eighteenth century melting seamlessly into an exuberant naturalism. The 'Revue' described Linke's style as 'entièrement nouveaux' and noted "This opinion is universally accepted. Linke's stand is the biggest show in the history of art furniture in the year 1900". It is perhaps the most extraordinary and remarkable aspect of Linke’s personal history that he produced such expensive and luxurious furniture of exquisite quality for the 1900 exhibition without any commission or any potential buyer in mind. [9] At a time when other more established furniture businesses such as those of Beurdeley and Dasson were closing down, he made a huge investment in his stand and the furniture he supplied for it. Linke recognised that to move his business forward he needed to appeal to a more International clientele and the new emerging rich who were at this time amassing fortunes on an unprecedented scale. For this reason he gambled everything he had on his display for the 1900 exhibition. Had this not succeeded he would almost certainly have succumbed to bankruptcy. Linke’s notebook records visitors to his stand from England, Europe, the Americas, Egypt and Japan and including; the King of Sweden, three visits from the King of Belgium, Prince Radziwill, the Prince d’Arenberg, the Comte Alberic du Chastel, Miss Anna May Gould, the American heiress, distinguished furniture makers and the President of France Emile Loubet. This risky endeavour was a resounding success, and with his reputation established, La Maison Linke became the pre-eminent furniture house until outset of the Second World War. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented was never to be repeated. His showrooms expanded into prestigious premises in Paris, in the Place Vendôme as well as the Faubourg St. Antoine where his workshop had been established. He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers. After the 1914-1918 World War, Linke undertook the extraordinary commission to furnish the Ras al-Tin Palace in Alexandria for King Fuad of Egypt, possibly the largest single furniture commission ever conceived, eclipsing even Versailles. Linke flourished and remained active until the middle years of the 1930s and died in 1946 Léon Messagé (1842-1901) was a French sculptor, best known for his sculptural collaboration with François Linke for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Messagé was also responsible for much of the design and creative work for Roux et Brunet...

A stamped French Louis XV style small walnut slant-front desk with sliding inlaid panels, long drawer and inner compartments from the early 19th century. This petite French desk...

The renowned designer Paul Mathieu chose the name “Louise” when he created his more feminine version of Louis XV (1730-1760) furniture. The characteristic cabriole leg, curving outward at the knee and inward towards the foot in an "S" shape was born during this period. It is during the same era that English furniture makers produced the Queen Anne and Chippendale styles. The curved legs and side rails of this exceptionally elegant table are hand carved from solid pieces of teak. Pattern makers trace and cut complex forms that will cover the table from thick sheets of copper or silver. Once the table is joined together, it is meticulously encased in a tight-fitting skin of copper or purest silver. The silver used was assayed at 96% purity, which exceeds the minimum standard for sterling of 92.5%. Brass, White Bronze, Antiqued bronze, Silver and Copper are the available options for the metal skin. Both silver and copper will tarnish over time. Regular non-abrasive household metal polishes can be used to restore the original finish. Louise Credenza...

Elevate your living space with this Pair of Antique Napoleon III Ebonized Demilune Shaped Side Cabinets, a remarkable display of opulence and craftsmanship. These cabinets are more t...

Louis XV style marble top cabinet with serpentine front with pale marble top with a moulded edge over five small drawers. Symmetrically arranged tulipwood parquetry veneers across th...

A stately and beautifully aged tall buffet in the Louis XV Provincial style, handcrafted in Brittany, France, circa 1820. This elegant cabinet is composed...

Comprised of solid oak and oak veneer, this beautiful hunt server features graceful lines apparent in the rounded curves of its three tiers, turned risers,...