Italian 19th Century Baroque Style Carved Oak Figural Vitrine Cabinet circa 1880

A fine and rare Italian 19th century Baroque style oak-carved figural credenza cabinet. The upper part with a pair of colorful Vitreaux (Stained glass) panelled doors, surmounted on ...

A Fine French 19th Century Louis XIV Style Baroque Revival Figural Carved Walnut Two-Door Vitrine. The finely carved body, crowned with a pair of male busts, the doors with symmetric...

A fine and rare English 19th-20th century Chippendale style carved oak and parcel-gilt console vitrine. The narrow upper two-door vitrine crowned with a carved parcel-gilt peacock fe...

A fine 19th century Louis XV style country French - Provincial carved white-washed walnut bombé credenza vitrine. The slender and tall carved single-door...

They can be sold separately Italy 18th century majestic dining room set, baroque renaissance, table and six chairs, all in solid walnut restored and polished to wax. On request the c...

A fine quality French late 19th century mahogany hand carved inlaid oval table bijouterie cabinet in Louis XVI style. The glass top opening to access the red velvet interior. Raised ...

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...

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...