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Vitrines For Sale
This Bookcase Is a Very Rare Swedish Piece from the Early 20th C
Located in Aalsgaarde, DK
This bookcase is a very rare Swedish piece from the early 20th Century. It is in excellent condition, and has its original glass. It is a beautiful and unique piece that would make a...
Category
20th Century Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Wood
Exceptional Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Vitrine by François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Parquetry Vitrine By François Linke
François Linke – Index no. 458
The fleur de pêcher marble top above a scro...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Early 19th Century Dutch Floral Marquetry Bureau Display Cabinet
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The moulded cornice above two shaped glass panelled doors opening to shelves, the lower part with a hinged sloping fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior with a central door ...
Category
19th Century Dutch Neoclassical Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
$7,713 Sale Price
51% Off
Two French Burnished Brass Art Deco Vitrines
Located in London, GB
This pair of vitrines (display cabinets) are characterized by a restrained design typical of late period French Art Deco design. The vitrines sit on dark wooden bases. Wood is found ...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Vitrines
Materials
Brass
$30,053 / set
A Fine & Rare Pair of George III Painted Diminuitive Cabinets on Stands
Located in Sheffield, MA
Each with a molded cornice above a pair of diamond mullioned glazed doors opening to a shelf, over two a pair of drawers, raised on square legs headed by pierced brackets, painted wi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Three-Sided Dutch Display Cabinet in the Baroque Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Solid softwood and beechwood, partly ebonized and polished gold-plated. Heavily scalloped, profile-framed, single-section frame base on strong claw feet. Upright rectangular, single-...
Category
20th Century French Baroque Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Charming and Unusual Display Table, France, 19th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
This lovely table features a large rectangular display case/ vitrine as the table top, supported by by four barley twist legs with ununsual feet.
The table top surround is carved...
Category
19th Century French Antique Vitrines
French Marquetry Vitrine, 20th Century
Located in Beaune, FR
Magnificent vitrine entirely made in marquetry by a craftsman. It was made to measure to accommodate a collection of model ships. It has 2 glass shelves, is in very good condition an...
Category
20th Century French Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Marble Top French Ormolu Kingwood Inlaid Marquetry Vitrine Attributed To Linke
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Marble Top French Ormolu Kingwood Inlaid Marquetry Vitrine Attributed To Linke
Dimensions : 55" Wide X 47" Tall X 16" Deep
This gorgeous vitrine was made in the 19th century in Fra...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 19th Century Empire St. Ormolu Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most impressive French 19th century Empire st. ormolu cabinet vitrine. The vitrine is raised by striking paw feet with luxuriant pierced palmette designs. Above the st...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Double Body Showcase
Located in Brussels, BE
Louis XVI double body showcase.
Category
Mid-18th Century Belgian Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Wonderful 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Table by Joseph Zwiener
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful late 19th century gilt bronze Mounted Louis XV style Vitrine table by Joseph Zwiener
Joseph Zwiener
The oval shaped table with a beveled glass top encircled by a bronze frieze, above four side glass panels, the canted angles set with pierced foliate-cast clasps, standing on cabriole legs tapering to scrolled sabots.
Born in Herdon, Germany, in 1849, Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener followed the tradition of some of the best ébnistes of the nineteenth century. He moved to Paris establishing a workshop at 12, rue de la Roquette, between 1880 and 1895. He produced a wide array of the very finest furniture, modeling in his own interpretations of the eighteenth century Louis XV Rococo style, veneered with the highest and finest quality marquetry and ‘Vernis Martin’ panels. Exhibiting at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, in 1889, Zwiener was awarded a gold medal for what the jury reported as ‘dè ses dèbuts à une Exposition Universelle, [il] s’est mi au premier rang par la richesse, la hardinesse, et le fini de ses meubles incrustés de bronze et fort habilment marquetés.’
Zwiener was closely associated with François Linke, and the two houses produced work which, at first glance, is remarkably similar and with occasionally identical mounts. The similarities are made more likely by the fact that the brilliant sculptor, Léon Messagé, worked initially for Zwiener and subsequently, upon Zwiener’s departure for Berlin to work on furniture commissioned by Freidrich Wilhelm II , he was employed in the workshop of François Linke. It appears that Zwiener, unlike Linke, did not sign all his work, although some stamped pieces with his name and/or his “Z” initial are documented. There is some uncertainty between the recorded stamp E. Zwiener and the work of a Julius Zwiener...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Very Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Pedestal
Located in Long Island City, NY
A very interesting late 19th century gilt bronze mounted transitional style vitrine pedestal
The square rouge marble top above a frieze, a single central door opens to a red velve...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XIV St. Vitrine in the Manner of André Charles Boulle
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and extremely high quality French early 19th century Louis XIV st. Ebony, ormolu and brass cabinet vitrine in the manner of André Charles Boulle...
Category
19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
French 19th Century Vitrine Display Cabinet Showcase by Conquet
By H. Conquet
Located in New York, NY
A French 19th Century Vitrine display cabinet showcase by Conquet
Marquetry inlaid bronze mounted bois de vilotette cabinet in the Louis ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Empire Style Ormolu Mounted Mahogany Vitrines / PAIR
Located in Dallas, TX
a handsome pair of Empire-style gilt bronze mounted (ormolu) mahogany marble top vitrines / display cabinets, each with two interior glass shelves, glass on three (3) sides, back and...
Category
19th Century English Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Display Case Vitrine in the antique Louis XV Style beech veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Plywood black polished veneer on solid softwood. High-rise, one-door, cambered and three-sided glazed body on high slanted, angled feet. Profiled cornice with marble top. Inside two ...
Category
Late 20th Century French Louis XV Vitrines
Materials
Beech
Antique Elegant Wilhelminian Era Vitrine, circa 1880 Mahogany veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
High-rectangular body on pressed ball feet. Above open, flanked by three-quarter carved columns. Including two fully carved doors.
The wardrobe was onc...
Category
19th Century German Victorian Antique Vitrines
Materials
Mahogany
Italian 19th Century Venetian St. Giltwood Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and large scale Italian 19th century Venetian st. giltwood cabinet vitrine. The most impressive and uniquely shallow vitrine is raised by a bombée and scalloped shaped bas...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Wood, Giltwood
French Kingwood Parquetry and Floral Ormolu-Mounted Cabinet, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
French kingwood parquetry and ormolu-mounted vitrine.
In the Louis XV-XVI Transitional style, of kingwood and tulipwood crossbanding and o...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Empire Bookcase
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Empire bookcase – walnut, rootwood and ebonized wood and columns with brass hardware. Glazed doors with interior shelves above single exterior drawer.
Category
19th Century Antique Vitrines
$10,800 Sale Price
58% Off
20th Century, Vitrine with Fine Inlay in the Dutch Baroque Style Mahogany Veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Light mahogany and maple on solid wood. Very rich, Baroque inlaid work. High-corpuscular body. On balustrade-shaped legs connected with an X-shaped ridge. Above two-wise frame base with profiled cover plate. Three-sided sprout-glazed, single-door display case. Interior shelves, wall covered...
Category
20th Century Dutch Baroque Vitrines
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Style Vitrine, 19th century
Located in Beaune, FR
Lovely Louis XVI style lacquered wooden display case, richly carved. It opens with two doors. It can be dismantled into two parts. Everything is original. The glasses are in perfect ...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Wonderful 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine by Joseph Zwiener
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Wonderful Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine by Joseph Zwiener
Joseph Zwiener
The serpentine-shaped brèche d’ alep marble top above a single centered glass door, flanked to each side by a conforming panel, the mirrored interior fitted with three adjustable glass shelves, the canted angles set with pierced foliate-cast clasps, above a bombé shaped apron, on cabriole legs with scrolled-acanthus sabots.
The quality of the cabinetry and solid wood frame, along with the quality and design of the mounts, is characteristic of Zwiener’s oeuvre. Similar flower-filled cornucopia chutes can be found on other Zwiener models.
Born in Herdon, Germany, in 1849, Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener followed the tradition of some of the best ébnistes of the nineteenth century. He moved to Paris establishing a workshop at 12, rue de la Roquette, between 1880 and 1895. He produced a wide array of the very finest furniture, modelling in his own interpretations of the eighteenth century Louis XV Rococo style, veneered with the highest and finest quality marquetry and ‘Vernis Martin’ panels. Exhibiting at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, in 1889, Zwiener was awarded a gold medal for what the jury reported as ‘dè ses dèbuts à une Exposition Universelle, [il] s’est mi au premier rang par la richesse, la hardinesse, et le fini de ses meubles incrustés de bronze et fort habilment marquetés.’
Zwiener was closely associated with François Linke, and the two houses produced work which, at first glance, is remarkably similar and with occasionally identical mounts. The similarities are made more likely by the fact that the brilliant sculptor, Léon Messagé, worked initially for Zwiener and subsequently, upon Zwiener’s departure for Berlin to work on furniture commissioned by Freidrich Wilhelm II , he was employed in the workshop of François Linke. It appears that Zwiener, unlike Linke, did not sign all his work, although some stamped pieces with his name and/or his “Z” initial are documented. There is some uncertainty between the recorded stamp E. Zwiener and the work of a Julius Zwiener...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$37,500 Sale Price
21% Off
Gilt-Bronze Mounted Burr Amboyna and Mahogany Vitrine Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gilt-bronze mounted burr amboyna and mahogany vitrine cabinet
French, circa 1900
All sides fitted with beveled glass and opening to shelves,
Measures: Height 63.25 in. (160.65 c...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
French Early 19th Century Louis XVI St. Sèvres Porcelain Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and high quality French early 19th century Louis XVI st. Kingwood, Tulipwood, Charmwood, ormolu and Sèvres porcelain cabinet vitrin...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Great Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Vitrine by François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Great Quality Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine By François Linke
François Linke.
The rectangular paneled top with three-quarter gallery, above a conf...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Exceptional Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Vitrine
The marble top above ormolu frieze and scro...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ebony Cabinet Vitrines
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant and extremely decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Napoleon III period, ebony, bone, giltwood, ormolu and glass cabinet vitrines. Each striking vitrine is raised by charming bun feet. Leading up each side are striking square and circular columns with ormolu foliate plinths and capitals, fine inlaid bone fillets and beautiful giltwood flutes. The door retains its original glass pane and is framed within a lovely beaded ormolu band. The ebony frame has fine inlaid bone fillets and intricately carved giltwood rosettes, which is repeated at each side of the cabinet. Inside are three upholstered shelves...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Gilt bronze Little Vitrine Louis XVI Style
Located in Beaune, FR
Lovely little display case for precious objects or jewelry. It is in gilded and chiseled bronze. The board lifts. The glasses are beveled. French work from the beginning of the 19th ...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Vitrine of Kingwood and Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in London, GB
A fine vitrine in the manner of Francois Linke
Constructed in kingwood, with gilt bronze mounts, in the Louis XVI Transitional style; rising from bronze foliate sabots, with gent...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Interesting 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Wedgwood Mounted Parquetry Vitrine
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Interesting Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Wedgwood Mounted Parquetry Vitrine
The breakfront marble top above a scrolled frie...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Medical display cabinet, 1930’s
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Medical cabinet from the 1930s. The cabinet is produced in Hungary and is made of thick iron and glass. The lock and handle are original and functional.
The cabinet has recently bee...
Category
1930s Hungarian Industrial Vintage Vitrines
Materials
Iron
19th Century, Marquetry & Gilt Bronze Vitrine Louis XV Style
Located in Beaune, FR
Wonderful marquetry and gilt bronze vitrine style Louis XV - Napoleon III. There are two doors with shelves inside. Fish-shaped bronzes.
French wo...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
21st Century Portland Showcase in Wood
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
Portland is a delicate and refined line of furnishings, characterized by decorations that recall the world of Wedgwood ceramics. The ornaments with a classic charm are further enhanc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vitrines
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
$44,506 / item
Gilt Bronze Guèridon. Napoleon III, France, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Gueridon showcase in polychromed and gilded bronze, France, Napoleon III, about the third third of the 19th century. The small circular table shows a top panel in transparent glass, ...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Louis XVI Classicist Style French Salon Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
French salon vitrine in Louis 16th classicist style.
Piano black polished veneer on solid pinewood. Oval one- drawered combered
and four-sided glassed body on high, Brasse-painted fo...
Category
20th Century Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
$7,576 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary Steel Shelf Tower, Repositionable Carrara Shelves Made in Italy
Located in Verona, IT
The geometric pattern becomes substance in space through the metal wire; an off-scale plot that is revealed in the relationship between Cosettina and the observer according to his position.
In this game of perspectives, the horizontal elements are lines that become circles and then thin tops, in a great structural embrace
Cosettina, designed by Enrico Girotti, minimal but resistant; Made of galvanized steel wire with repositionable shelves 110 cm high is the little sister...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Vitrines
Materials
Carrara Marble, Steel
$2,711 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Da Pa Vermelha, Shelve by Cultivado Em Casa
Located in Geneve, CH
Da Pa Vermelha - shelve by Cultivado Em Casa
Dimensions: 80 x 30 x 205 cm
Materials: Digger, carbon steel and concrete.
Shelf built from an articulated shovel, a hand tool widel...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Vitrines
Materials
Concrete, Steel
$4,699 / item
Lyn Small Grey Black Cabinet by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Lyn small grey black cabinet by Pulpo
Dimensions: D60 x W45 x H110 cm
Materials: glass; powder coated steel
Also available in different colours.
Studio Visser & Meijwaard des...
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2010s German Post-Modern Vitrines
Materials
Steel
$4,568 / item
Form 5 by Radu Abraham
Located in Geneve, CH
Form 5 by Radu Abraham
A limited series of 10, currently at nr. 2
Materials: Ash wood, glass
Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 82 cm
Massive cube-shaped block of ash ...
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2010s Romanian Modern Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Ash
$1,566 / item
Boulle Style Display Cabinet, Rounded and Inlaid, Early 1900s, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Vintage display cabinet, Boulle style, sculpted with rounded shape, complete with glass riser and base with closed doors, richly inlaid, predominance of bl...
Category
20th Century Italian Vitrines
Materials
Wood
$3,607 Sale Price
20% Off
Théodore Millet - Cabinet Cartonnier Vitrine Louis XV Style
Located in Beaune, FR
Magnificent cabinet / showcase also acting as a cardboard box in the upper part signed "MILLET Paris". This piece of furniture is Louis XV style, in marqu...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Mirror-Finished Stainless Steel High Cabinet Mesh Obejct #Ms-C02
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The mesh series is a new collection of furniture and installation pieces designed by Zhoujie Zhang. Based on mesh, the basic computer graphic language, Zhoujie simulates the dynamic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Vitrines
Materials
Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
Antique and Vintage Vitrines
Why not give your precious collectibles the case pieces they deserve? Antique and vintage vitrines can be used to safely store and display your most treasured objects.
While they were initially used to display relics in churches or to preserve specimens for scientific observation, vitrines are best known for their place in retail spaces and museums. The name for these glass display cases comes from the Latin word “vitrum,” meaning glass, as well as the Old French word “vitre,” which also refers to glass. Instead of simply showcasing collector’s items on shelves, you can bestow extra importance on them by displaying them in a vitrine for passers-by to observe and admire.
Not all vitrines are created equal. Over time, furniture makers have explored different shapes and sizes for vitrines. A display case you’ll find in a retail store will likely look drastically different from what you’ll see in a museum or art gallery. A vitrine in a shop is likely there to best market specific wares to the general public, while in museums there is usually a range of different vitrines intended to house and protect single objects or to display a grouping of artifacts.
Most of us have an antique, new or vintage case piece in our home. Though the terms “case pieces” and “case goods” may cause even the most decor-obsessed to stumble, these furnishings have been a vital part of the home for centuries. Any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — cabinets, dressers, buffets — may be properly termed a case piece.
Mirror-backed vitrines, which refer to cases that usually feature shelved and mirrored interiors, are a most appropriate home for your jewelry or decorative objects. Adding such items to a vitrine already suggests that there is an irreplaceable preciousness to the case’s contents, and the mirrors will emphasize as much as well as refract more light to render the display eye-catching.
On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of antique and vintage vitrines to protect and preserve your most prized items. The collection of mid-century modern vitrines and Art Deco vitrines is mostly inclusive of those built with a wooden frame, but there are many other types to choose from as well. It’s time to give your collectibles a good home!
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