19th Century Vitrines

A good quality late 19th century Chinese hardwood display cabinet or vitrine. Having beautifully hand-carved scrolling vine leaves and faux bamboo to ...

Victorian stationer’s, retail pen display cabinet, A great and very usable piece, this handsome mahogany cabinet, sits on the counter top at a slopin...

A pair of Marquetry display cabinets in the transitional manner By Edmund Kahn of London & Paris Constructed from kingwood, with tulipwood, bois satiné and harewood inlays; f...

A very handsome and elegant Continental 19th century ebonized Fruitwood and Tortoiseshell cabinet vitrine. This beautiful freestanding vitrine is raised by four slender square tapere...

Solid oak, ornately carved. Large glass vitrine with interior shelves above 2 doors with interior shelves. Austro-Hungarian circa 1860/80. Part of ...

A Kingwood vitrine attributed to Maison G. Grimard, a well known French Ebenistes de art in the 19th century. The Ormolu mounted cabinet and frame are mounted with acanthus leaves an...

Exceptionally well-carved Flemish buffet a deux corps in oak in the Renaissance Revival style of Henri II. This cupboard features very well-articulated ...

This exquisite 19th-century French display cabinet is a remarkable example of the transitional style between Louis XV and Louis XVI, blending the graceful curves of the Rococo period with the classical elegance of Neoclassicism. Crafted from fine walnut, it showcases beautifully curved lines, a refined silhouette, and stands gracefully on four slender cabriole legs adorned with finely detailed gilt bronze mounts. The cabinet is richly decorated with exquisite gilt bronze ormolu, featuring delicate floral garlands, intricate scrollwork, acanthus leaves, and classical rosettes, all characteristic of this elegant transitional period. Its top is crowned with a luxurious pink marble slab...

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, ...

Kingspilander on solid oakwood. High-rectangular, one-door, curved and three-sided glazed corpus. On curly feet scalloped out. Inside life with orig. Velvet covered and two entrances...

A fine quality French Kingwood Louis XV style vitrine, having silver plated mounts, serpentine glass to the front and sides, adjustable shelves ...

Elegant vitrine made of rosewood veneer with top opening, original glass and key and yellow silk upholstery. Transition period France, circa 1870.

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 Fine Late 19th Century Transitional Style Gilt Bronze and Lacquer Vitrine Cabinet The large gilt bronze and all glass single door vitrine above a fine two door lacquered cabinet ...

Library display case, France, circa 1880. Very good condition. Wood: oak dimensions: height 230 cm x width 120 cm x depth 50 cm

A beautiful and most elegant Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated and giltwood cabinet vitrine. The vitrine is raised by circular tapered fluted legs with handsome giltwo...

Tyrol mountain decor a wonderful antique country sideboard with vetrine in solid fir of 19th century Measures cm: H 95\200 W 127 D 53.

This lovely table features a large rectangular display case/ vitrine as the table top, supported by by four barley twist legs with ununsual feet. The table top surround is carved...

19th century mahogany estate office mail cupboard This is a wonderful piece, made in mahogany, this is country house piece for the distribution of letters. The 2 glazed doors encl...

A sensational and extremely decorative French 19th century Louis XIV st. Napoleon III period Ebony, Walnut and brass Boulle cabinet vitrine. The two door vitrine is raised by a strai...

A very fine 19th century French Louis XVI mahogany and gilt bronze mounted viewing cabinet. Glass shelving and illuminated .

Hexagonal corner cabinet from a Parisian art gallery, this elegant vitrine is glazed on six sides on a wooden base. A practical and easy system allows adjusting the height of the two...

Antique English mahogany pedestal vitrine, circa 1875-1885.

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

A most impressive and large scaled Italian 19th century Rococo Revival st. Ebonized Fruitwood and giltwood cabinet/vitrine. The four door cabinet is raised by a mottled plinth below ...

Top section with glass doors and interior shelves. Bottom section with three large drawers.

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...

Highly-prized coromandel, or East Indian ebony, was used to create this beautiful Victorian vitrine. Featuring delicate inlay in the Victorian/Edwardian style and glass panels framed in the equally luxurious satinwood, this cabinet is constructed to fit flush against a wall with baseboards. Elegant cabinets such as this are perfect for displaying one's treasures, but with original locks, keys, mirrors and fleur-de-lis fabric, this case is a prized possession unto itself, circa 1890. Measures: 30" wide x 14 ½" deep x 41 ½" high. Coromandel ebony is variegated brown and black, often called "streaky," wood. It is considered a highly valuable wood for turnery, fine cabinet...

Exceptional, rare empire nutwood display cabinet or vitrine from the mid 19th century in North Germany - the "second empire" period. As part of the inventory of a stately mansion, th...

A spectacular large French Napoleon III ormolu mounted showcase by Charles-Guillaume Diehl, and Helene Bertaux. Each one of the three glazed doors mounted with a relief-cast oval plaque depicting flying putti and a lady in various positions, flanked by acanthus leaves and ribbons. The shoulders mounted with female espagnolettes, topped with a gilt bronze bust of a lady. Lock plate signed DIEHL/19. R. Michel-le-Comte/PARIS The plaques by Helene Bertaux (Madame Leon Bertaux...

High-quality Cuba mahogany on solid softwood. Architecturally articulated body. Two-door, bent frame box on pressed, carved, poliementvergolddete claw feet. Recessed tower with two t...

Antique French marble topped vitrine in the Empire style French, 19th century Measures: Height 132cm, width 72cm, depth 47cm This antique mahogany vitrine was made in France and...

The stunning cabinet in the Napoleon III style and of the sam period, featuring inlaid Boulle work panels of brass and fine scarlet tortoise shell, with cast ormolu mounts depicting ...

A stunning and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Tulipwood cabinet/vitrine, signed Henry Dasson 1886. This beautiful tall rectangular three door vitrine is su...

Magnificent Louis XVI style showcase in mahogany veneer with rich, very finely chiseled gilded bronze ornamentation. Opening two large doors on the front separated by a glass frame. Beveled windows on the front as well as on the sides. Mirror bottom and three thick glazed...

A fine quality late 19th Century French Louis XV style Mahogany vitrine, having its original Fleur De Pecher marble top, gilded ormolu mounts, a single glazed door opening to access ...

A 19th Century French Napoleon III vitrine, or display cabinet, made of solid and veneers of mahogany. Original blown glass paned door with...

A good quality late 19th Century French Verne Martin vitrine, having bombe shaped front and side glazing, hand painted panels depicting rural scenes and lovers courting. Gilded ormol...

For sale is a good quality 19th century French serpentine vitrine, having a central glazed door decorated with ormolu mounts opening to a velvet lin...

Large late 19th century french neoclassical gilt metal mounted vitrine Measures: Height 184cm, width 121cm, depth 46cm This excellent display cabinet is a large late nineteenth c...

Louis XVI showcase Napoleon III, Paris around 1870. Fine veneer on solid oak, veneered and paneled with ebony inlays. Straight, single-door body (solid oak) with white, grey-brown veined marble top. Three-sided glazing with rounded corners. Partly cross-veneered with recessed fields of marquetry...

French Empire ormolu-mounted vitrine cabinet pedestal, circa 1840. Very good quality bronze mounts of typical Empire period heads. Very useful pedestal vitrine combination tha...

Marble Top French Ormolu Kingwood Inlaid Marquetry Vitrine Attributed To Linke Dimensions : 55" Wide X 47" Tall X 16" Deep This gorgeous vitrine was made in the 19th century in Fra...

Napoleon III period gilt bronze and porcelain mounted cabinet by Louis Grade French, circa 1860 Measures: Height 160cm, width 82cm, depth 4...

Beautiful showcase, France, circa 1870. Very good condition, after professional renovation. Wood: rosewood and others dimensions: height 182 cm / width 72 cm / depth 37 cm /

A very good quality late 19th century French gilded ormolu mounted, marble topped vitrine. Having wonderful quality cherub mounts to the corners, scrolling folaite decoration, reeded...

This is a fine and unusual 19th century French ormolu mounted mahogany "Vernis Martin" decorated, marble top corner vitrine cabinet, circa 1880 Dimensions: Height 63" (160 cm)...

This is a superb antique French Vernis Martin mahogany vitrine, in the Louis XV manner, circa 1880 in date, with exquisite hand-painted decoration and exquisite ormolu mounts. The t...

French Oak Hunt Display Cabinet Louis XIII Style This Neo-Gothic Oak Hunt Display Cabinet features prolific deep relief carving throughout.  On the top an arched pediment with a ce...

A Neo Renaissance Vitrine manufactured within the southeast of old Austro-Hungarian monarch, Baron Bethelen Castle. Private estate Beclean-Romania. R...

Pair of antique ormolu mounted vitrine cabinets by L'Escalier de Cristal French, Late 19th Century Height 178cm, width 105cm, depth 55cm Crafted in the late 19th century, this exqu...

Henry DASSON (1825-1896) A Vitrine Acajou with patinated bronze upper section, signed and dated Henry Dasson & Cie, 1889 to the right-hand side molded border, the carcasses stamped ...

High-rectangular body on pressed ball feet. Above open, flanked by three-quarter carved columns. Including two fully carved doors. The wardrobe was onc...

Louis XV style vitrine by François Linke (1855 - 1946) Made of gilt bronze mounted wood, with a violet breccia marble top, front and beveled glass pa...

19th Century english Bar with real Silver Fittings According to a design by Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) in Chinese style. this all real silver (V-42).

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

An important oak, giltwood and bronze four door Grande Vitrine. French, circa 1870. An important oak, giltwood and bronze four door 'Grande Vitrine'. The projecting cornice finely carved with a frieze of linked coquillage centred by a sculptural giltwood cresting of a crowned shield displaying the double 'L' monogram above a Fleur-de-lis of Louis Philippe and flanked by playful putti, below three pilaster uprights each with gilded Corinthian capitals and trailing foliate relief, frame two sets of brass faced bronze doors fitted with plate glass and opening to an interior containing three shelves, the sides similarly glazed and the whole raised on a plain square section base. This vitrine was formerly in the collection of the Monseigneur Le Comte de Paris et Madame la Comtesse de Paris from the Villa La Quinta Do Anjiho in Portugal. When, after the Second World War, the Count and Countess of Paris (Duc and Duchesse d'Orleans) moved to La Quinta, they decorated the villa almost entirely with furniture and works of art from the estate of the Duc de Guise...

Rosewood China Cabinet, circa 1878, designed by Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) for Collinson & Lock, London. From the Collection of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England. 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...