19th Century Vitrines

Exquisitely fashioned. A superb vitrine of the finest quality fitted with glass shelves. A refined piece with excellent carving and detail. Designed for an important collection.

An impressive large gilt-bronze mounted mahogany vitrine. This impressive vitrine has a shaped cresting rail carved with acanthus above a pair of shaped doors with bevelled glass ...

Stephen Webb for Collinson & Lock of London. An outstanding exhibition quality satinwood and marquetry Renaissance Revival inlaid corner cabinet of the s...

A fine late 19th century calamander wood vitrine cabinet, the top, and front veneered in calamander wood and the sides ebonised, the front and corners ...

Mahogany on solid wood. High-aisle, one-door, curved and three-sided glazed body. On its curled feet, a draped frame. Three-sided glazed display case. Slightly protruding top plate ...

Presenting a beautiful and elegant 19th century French Boudoir vitrine in the style of Louis XV. From circa 1890 and made in France. This is a tall legged vitrine and has beaut...

19th century French low wall cabinet with door and bronze fittings.

Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) for Collinson and Lock, The Eaton Hall cabinet, circa 1878, in rosewood, the scroll-carved broken arched Queen Anne pediment above a dentil and moulded frieze, with a pair of astragal glazed doors flanked by shelves beneath fielded panels, above a central drawer and semi-circular cupboards, the moulded top above a pair of panelled doors with an open panelled section beneath, on shaped splayed feet, japanesque engraved brass handles, hinges and lockplates, stamped 'Collinson and Lock, London 7480', the handles, hinges and lockplates all stamped 'Elsleys, Gt Portland St, London'. Provenance: Eaton Hall, Cheshire. A previous owner purchased this lot from a sale of the contents at Sweetenhams of Chester, 20th and 21st May 1959, where it states:- '283. Rosewood display cabinet, the upper portion enclosed with astragal glazed doors with side shelves, the lower portion enclosed with two panelled doors. This was the last mention of the Rosewood cabinet before it was sold. This piece has many features, which firmly show Godwin's hand at work, i.e. Queen Anne broken pediment, (Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', Butterfly cabinet, p. 227; and a Queen Anne cabinet p. 269 and an 'over door', p. 251), the dentil moulding to the top is identical to the Butterfly cabinet, the astragal glazed doors and panelled lower doors identical to a design for a table for Grey Towers (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 157 and similar detail to the doors on two cabinets on pp. 222-223). The semi-circular central side doors and semi-circular open shelves above are identical to a dressing table and a sketch for a dresser (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 211), a design for a mantelpiece (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 248) and a design for a buffet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 265). The integrated design of solids and voids in many of his cabinet designs and the framed back panels to each individual shelf and framed panels to each side is typical of his work. The splayed front feet are identical to the Four Seasons cabinet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 217). The elongated handles with japanesque engraved backplates simulate Japanese woven rush work (Susan Soros, 'E.W. Godwin Aesthetic Movement, Architect and Designer', p. 303, fig. 11-10 and Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 268) a detail he used in many combinations. 'Sheraton and Queen Anne in Japan at Eaton Hall' only Godwin could have designed this exceptional work of art. Possibly part of a larger commission, the Eaton Hall archivist also found a Collinson and Lock billiard table in the inventory at Eaton Hall. Godwin is known to have designed billiard tables for Collinson and Lock, a design appears in his sketchbook on the 6th of October 1873, carved in the Jacobean style with circular decorations of white storks in relief interspersed with square panels. A corresponding entry on the 7th of October 1873 it shows that he designed it for the McLaren house, a large commission that Godwin did at Adison Rd, Kensington. The third Marquis of Westminster, who later became the 2nd Duke of Westminster, commissioned Sir Alfred Waterhouse to substantially remodel and rebuild Eaton Hall. The work began in 1869 and reached its completion in 1883. The large drawing room can be seen in a photograph taken, circa 1887, pl. 199 in Cooper, Jeremy. Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, in which Cooper mentions that the Duke had spent 600,000 pounds on the decoration alone and that Heaton, Butler and Bayne carried out the work. In 1885, an inventory of the contents of Eaton Hall was carried out, and it is precisely at this point in time that the cabinet receives its first mention. Having occupied a place in the Ormand Sitting Room, 72 on the ground floor of the North Wing of the Waterhouse Hall, the cabinet was described as, 'A Rosewood china cabinet with cupboards beneath and glass fronts at the top, 50ins'. The cabinet is then mentioned again in a 1917 inventory in the Angel Bedroom. The cabinet made its next appearance in 1931 in the 'Declaration of Trusts', which was a valuation of the contents of Eaton Hall, appearing as T86/27 in the Stewards Offices with a similar description, and then finally in the 1959 sale catalogue mentioned above. Sotheby's and various other local auctioneers held many sales of the various contents of Eaton Hall from 1955 through to 1961 until the Hall was demolished in 1961. This description was compiled with the generous help and assistance of the Grosvenor Estate's Archive Department, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Collinson and Lock of London...

Important display case attributed to l'Escalier de Cristal, made in engraved gilded bronze, with bent and beveled glazed panels and mirror background plaques. The top and the sides can be completely and widely opened. L’Escalier de Cristal, Parisian firm created circa 1800 by Mme veuve Desarnaud, famous under the French “Restoration” for its decorative objects combining crystal and bronze. She was awarded a gold medal at the 1819 Paris Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie for an outstanding gilt-bronze mounted crystal dressing table. Located in Paris, at the Palais-Royal, Galerie de Valois, L’Escalier de Cristal was bought out circa 1830 by Boin, and then by Lahoche in 1840. The company owed its rise to a position amongst the most important Paris decorative wares shops to Lahoche, who expanded considerably the business and entered later in partnership with his son-in-law to set up in 1852 Lahoche et...

A good quality pair of 19th century French ebonized display cabinets, having classical gilded ormolu mounts. Adjustable glass shelves and mirror backs within, raised on plinth bases ...

A rare and unusual matched pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted wall vitrines by Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener. French, circa 1890. Signed ‘E. Zwiener’ to the base of the bro...

A fine late 19th century Napoleon III glazed cabinet on chest, the shaped grey marble top above a curved frieze and mounted with fine gilt bronze mounts. The vitrine with a full widt...

A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted Vitrine with a Brèche d’Alep Marble Top By Franc¸ois Linke Signed to the reverse of the lock ‘CT LINKE/ PARIS’. Linke index number 208. Th...

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...

A very beautiful French Charles X bookcase in cherry, circa 1820 with original glass panels and key. Original French polish finish. Makes a great bookcase or display cabinet! Measur...

This wonderful display cabinet is designed in a ‘Japonisme’ (Japanese) style, which was popular in Europe in the mid-late 19th century. This craze was kick-started by Japan reopening to trade with the West, and exporting Japanese goods—including furniture and decorative art—to Europe. One craftsmen by the name of Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906) established a name for himself in France producing Chinese and Japanese style furniture...

This unusual cabinet, though plainly Art Nouveau, pays homage to Louis XV. It is bombe, with gently swelling sides and front. This ebeniste really knew his trade, the drawer fronts a...

Beautiful one-door showcase cabinet, the body is made of pine wood with covered cherrywood veneer. The cabinet dates back to the Biedermeier period circa 1830. The glass is original ...

An elegant Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany vitrine attributed to Maison Krieger. The bombé front door opening to two glass shelves, flanked by convex glazed sides and r...

The splendid showcase vitrine, made of solid wood, dates back to the end of the 19th century. Made in France by a master cabinet maker of great ability, it’s in Louis XVI style. The ...

19th Century French Louis Philippe Rosewood Bookcase is the perfect choice for those with a special collection, prized family heirlooms, or for your library of books! Rosewood, some...

Very nice showcase with 3 sides glass. The showcase is from the time of the Biedermeier from Germany, Berlin. The showcase is made of pine wood covered with nutwood veneer. The shelv...

Continental German (19th Century) horn and oak gun cabinet with deer carved pediment.

This elegant 19th century French vitrine is designed in the manner of Louis XV, with flowing decorative ormolu trim that accents the highly polished veneer. A framed beveled glass li...

A very large and impressive fine quality 19th century French mahogany Virine, in the style of Louis XVI by 'Francoise Linke'. Having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foli...

A rare and magnificent neoclassical mahogany three door bookcase dating to the second half of the 19th century. Resting on a large plinth, the bookcase has three large frame doors with parallel detached moldings over a metal trellis...

Antique French vitrine with glass on four sides. Interior has mirrored bottom shelf and one glass shelf in middle. Four corner mountings on top with ram's heads.

A very good quality late 19th century French mahogany free standing oval vitrine, having a gilded ormolu gallery to the top and foliate mounts to the pelm...

Here we offer you a truly incredible Wilhelminian cabinet with the finest epoch-style styling features. Massive oak manufactured circa 1900 impresses among other things by its car...

Italian liberty walnut étagère with showcase, late 1800-early 1900. Liberty etagere in walnut equipped with showcase and grinding mirror. Small containe...

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...

PRESENTING an OUTSTANDING, IMPORTANT and UNIQUE 19C French Empire Style Buffet/Vitrine by AME Fournier. Pieces by A.M.E. Fournier are EXTREMELY RARE and ...

Palisander mirror veneer on solid conifers. The cambered, one-door, three-quarter glass corpus flanked by blackened columns with carved capitals and bases embellished on saddle-shape...

A very imposing French 19th Century Walnut, ormolu mounted vitrine / display cabinet. Having an arched egg and dart molded glazed door, opening to reveal a glass shelf and mirror bac...

We present very elegant eclectic China closet from 1900 Austria (Vienna). Every piece of furniture that leaves our workshop from the beginning to the end...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare George III mahogany sideboard from Ince Castle Saltash and restored in 1988 for Patricia Viscountess Boyd. A very rare find, i ha...

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 great quality late 19th century louis xv style gilt bronze mounted kingwood vitrine. By François Linke - Varient of Index Number 38 and 1122. Surmounted by a Brèche d'Alep ma...

19th century link quality mahogany vitrine cabinet having spectacular bronze mounts stamped Grohe. This Important and Impressive Louis XVI style cabinet is larger than life as it can...

Edward William Godwin made by William Watt, with applied enamel label. An Important Anglo-Japanese ebonised display cabinet with an upper and...

A very good quality large and imposing 19th century French vitrine, in the style of Louis XVI. Having wonderful gilded ormolu plume and foliate mounts, serpentine glazed doors to the...

A Tour de Force table Vitrine in the Louis XVI Manner by Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, of Paris Of free-standing form, constructed in a finely patinated fruit wood, adorned with ...

Extremely fine French mahogany biblioteque with exquisite ormolu mounts, by A. Beurdeley, Paris. The Beurdeley family were a flourishing dynasty of three generations of fine quality ...

19th century Dutch Vitrine by Horrix is a study in the Dutch interpretation of the Regency style, hand-crafted from old-growth walnut with century old patina. Carved embellishment ap...

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). The Vernis Martin Panels 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 fine gilt-bronze mounted mahogany table vitrine by Georges-Francois Alix. French, circa 1890. Stamped to the underside and to the reverse of th...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany vitrine, by Alfred Louis Beurdeley. French, circa 1880. Stamped to the carcass ‘A. Beurdeley à Paris’. This fine mahogany...

Attributed to Francois Linke, this fine Louis XV style kingwood vitrine features ormolu mounts, an oval jasperware plaque, and retains it's original marble top. The vitrine is from t...

French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany single door display/vitrine cabinet with gilt bronze trim and front sphinx form legs.

A very good quality late 19th century French parquetry inlaid vitrine / display cabinet. Having its original Carrera marble top, wonderful gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foliate ...

Vitrine in the style of Louis XV Napoleon III Paris, circa 1850-1880 Bois-Satiné veneer, all-round surface-covering mirror veneer on solid softwood. High-rectangular, one-door, cambe...

Beautiful bookcase, vitrine, display cabinet , Louis Philippe of the early 19th century in solid walnut and walnut veneer. With two or more internal shelves, large bottom drawer, sha...

French antique Napoleon III vitrine cabinet is after renovation. Wood is decorated with inlaid brass and bronze details. Inside there are two glass shelves. Side parts are with perfe...

Elegant French display table, the wood is in blond mahogany marquetry. The feet and the sides are decorated with bronze ornaments, end of the 19th...

A fine French 19th century Louis XVI style mahogany and ormolu mounted two-tier vitrine cabinet. The upper section with a single glass front door below a pierced gilt-bronze floral r...

A pair of vitrines, by Henry Dasson, Paris, circa 1889. Acajou with patinated bronze upper sections, both respectively signed and dated Henry Dasson ...

A chinoiserie vitrine. Extensively decorated in the chinoiserie manner in giltwork and polychromes; rising from a plinth base, having canted sides, a central door to the lower secti...

Frideric Rococo Style display case circa 1850-1870 walnut Magnificent Frideric Rococo Style display case circa 1850-1870 Massive walnut, finely carved and set. High-rectangular, one...