Louis XV Style Gilt Metal Vernis Martin Vitrine

Louis XV Style Gilt Metal Mounted Mahogany Vitrine, early 20th century, of rounded rectangular form, the caddy top above a central clasp and paneled frieze, below three glass and pan...

Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Mounted Oak Vitrine, 20th century, the glazed door enclosing three shelves. 67" H x 39" W x 15" D.

Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Mounted Kingwood and Brass Inlay Vitrine, retailed by Hampton & Sons, Pal Mall East, London, the three quarter gallery above the glazed door, enclosing thr...

Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Kingwood Bookcase, late 19th century, the upper section with two glazed doors enclosing shelves, flanked by canted angles, on a conforming cupboard fitt...

A fine French 19th century Louis XV Style gilt bronze-mounted and "Vernis Martin" style bombé tulipwood veneered vitrine cabinet with a Breche d' Alep marble top. The serpentine fron...

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...

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...

This is a gorgeous and very luminous gilded carved French vitrine. Done in the Vernis Martin style, the vitrine is painted with a courtship scene and beautifully finished in bright g...