An Antique French Louis XV style Vernis Martin Ormolu mounted Vitrine

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A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu mounted plum pudding mahogany veneer, mahogany and Vernis Martin decorated vitrine à Deux Corps, probably by François Linke (1855-1946). The lower structure fitted with finely chased gilt-bronze mounts with female masks, musical instruments, floral drapes, bows and acanthus, centred with a frieze drawer and a cupboard door with three painted panels. The centre front painted panel with a Romantic courting park setting scene amongst sheep and a sculpture fountain of Putti; the side panels both with parks scenes of a resting lion sculpture and fountain flanked by grassing sheep. The lower cabinet interior with three drawers, the upper vitrine case with two glass shelves, a bowed beveled front door and sides, crowned with a fine gilt-bronze wreath mount with ribbons, all raised on four cabriolet legs with cast lion paw mounts. Unsigned, Paris, circa 1890-1900. The style of this cabinet is closely related to those produced in the Paris furniture making trade in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1880s and as such, without a signature or identifying mark, is unattributable. However, there are similarities with the firm Raoux et Brunet, some of whose mounts were designed by Léon Messagé and later used by François Linke. Indeed many of the mounts on this cabinet, whilst not exclusive to him, are very similar to the work produced in his early years in Paris in the 1880s. At this time Linke was making furniture to order...

Louis XV style ormolu mounted Vernis Martin and parquetry vitrine French, c.1880 Height 197cm, width 102cm, depth 49cm This remarkable work is a Louis XV style, Vernis Martin, parqu...

Gorgeous E. 1900's Antique French Louis XV Style, 'Vernis Martin' Cabinet, Vitrine!! Antique Vitrine, Display Cabinet, French Louis XV Style, 'Vernis Martin', Mahogany, Marble Top...

A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Vernis Martin Vitrine Cabinet. The spreading pediment centred by a rocaille clasp and flanked by exotic busts. The central three-quarter glazed ...