French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Ormolu Mounted Vitrine Attributed Millet

A superb quality palatial French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted, satinwood, kingwood parquetry and Vernis Martin style paneling three-door raised Vitrine Display Cabinet attributed to Paul Sormani (1817-1877). A Vernis Martin Panel signed "V. Gossen." The lower part of the cabinet with three frieze drawers supported by two square-sectioned on tapered legs, fronting an ormolu mounted parquetry back panel, on toupie feet. The ormolu stamped with the initials "P.S." on the reverse. Circa: Paris, 1870. Height: 101 inches (256.5 cm). Width: 56 inches (142.2 cm). Depth: 20 inches (50.8 cm). Sormani, Paul (1817-1877): Born in Venice, Paul Sormani set up in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. He specialized in creating furniture and works of art and was known for his high quality reproductions of Louis XV and XVI furniture...

A very fine French Louis XV style Belle Époque mahogany and tulipwood ormolu-mounted vitrine cabinet with a Brêche violette marble top, attributed to François Linke (1855-1946). The ...

A Very Fine French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany, Tulipwood and Ormolu-Mounted Parquetry Three-Door Vitrine Commode 'Meuble d'appui with a Brêche Violette Marble Top, attributed to François Linke (1855-1946). The interior of the vitrine with three glass shelves, lined with a burgundy broque fabric and a mirror backing, flanked by a pair of side doors, each fitted with a pair of mahogany...

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...

A rare and extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany, ormolu, silvered bronze, and glass circular vitrine cabinet attributed t...

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Amboyna Vitrine Cabinet-On-Stand, Attributed to Henry Dasson. This fine vitrine cabinet has an upper section with a shaped re...

Louis XVI style Ormolu mounted kingwood Vitrine, Paris, circa 1900, Beautiful quality, with lift top beveled glass top, the case fitted with fo...

Émile Léger & Cie A Louis XVI gilt-bronze mounted mahogany vitrine cabinet Late 19th century, the shaped rectangular top with a three-quarter gallery abo...