Louis XVI display cabinet, Mahogany, gilded bronze, glass, France, 19th Century

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, ...

Louis XVI style table, France, 19th century. Plated lid. Mahogany, rosewood, gilded bronze. The legs, which maintain their respective sheaves, have a circular column shape starting f...

The painted scenes that decorate the side doors are children and a harp in one and a woman with a Cupid in the other. Technically, they remember the plaques made with the so-called "...

Two cups on pedestals and a clock. The French style known as Louis XVI is characterized by its inspiration in classicism and covers approximately from 1760 to 1789. In the 19th cent...

English showcase. Mahogany wood, XIX century. Showcase with shelves and two doors with glass and geometric decoration topped by a split pediment wi...

Louis XVI style sofa. Golden wood. Upholstery to restore or replace. Sofa on turned stipe legs and waist with dice with flowers, repeating the decoration of the legs in columns on ...

Fine quality French Louis XVI style Linke influence Vitrine, circa 1890. Having wonderful gilded ormolu monopodia mounts, serpentine front and sides, with shaped glass, inlaid floral...

A good quality late 19th century French mahogany free standing bijouterie cabinet. having scrolling rococo, Louis XVI style gilded ormolu mounts, a single door opening to access the ...

A very good quality pair of late 19th century French mahogany bow fronted display cabinets, each with a gallery to the top, gilded ormolu foliate and molded mounts, central doors with a glass shelf within, a frieze drawer above a shelf beneath with a paneled back and raised on elegant cabriole legs. Signed; Paul Sormani (1817-1877), one the most important cabinetmakers of the 19th century, was born in Venice. Having trained as a cabinetmaker, he moved to Paris where he opened his first shop in 1847 specializing in furniture made in the Louis XV and Louis XVI style. When she decorated her palace, Empress Eugenie, the wife of Emperor Napoleon III, who was particularly fond of furniture in the 18th century styles, engaged Sormani to create spectacular pieces to compliment her period examples. Sormani was able to meet the Empress’s high standards with the excellent quality of the cabinet work, bronze mounts, use of lacquer and unusual marbles. Sormani’s firm was a maker of fine “meubles de luxe”, (deluxe furniture) whose work was described in the 1867 Exposition Universelle catalogue as “toute sa production revele une qualite d’execution de tout premier ordre”. He received a medal of premiere classe at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, followed by another medal at the 1862 exposition in London The workshop also made eclectic furniture...

A grandly-scaled late 19th century French carved walnut Louis XVI style vitrine, the case with finely hand-carved swags, ribbons and floral details. Two doors retain their original s...

A magnificent example of 19th century French Decorative Arts. The vitrine is pure opulence and has had no expense spared, with exotic decoration and materials used from top to bottom...

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 ...