Early 20th Century Vitrines

A wooden vitrine from 1910s Belgium with an evocative patina. A tall, slender cabinet, fronted by a paned glass door, sits atop a low cupboard. The ori...

Typical Tuscan showcase, rustic Italian, in fir, consisting of base and riser. Honey color. In ancient times the piece of furniture had been painted green and about 30 years ago it w...

A French mahogany vitrine, circa 1900, marble top, the glazed door enclosing a silk-lined interior of three shelves and with glazed cavetto sides, having a central parquetry panel be...

Fantastic Mahogany Vitrine Cabinet from the early 20th century with the still original faceted glass panels. An absolute beautiful designed Art Nouveau Vitrine elaborately made in Austria around 1910 with two doors that can be wide opened, offering four compartments with mirror plates in the back - the perfect spot for presenting your valuable dishes, ceramics or other collector items. This antique vitrine...

A Very Fine French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany, Tulipwood and Ormolu-Mounted Parquetry Three-Door Vitrine Commode 'Meuble d'appui with a Brêche Violette Marble Top, at...

A Spanish Colonial vitrine cabinet from the 20th century in walnut with scalloped base and reeded sides and door. Original lock with key. Original glass. and lead solders. The upper ...

French vitrine cabinet or dry bar with new black finish and original brass trim, circa 1920s. Top has sliding glass doors. Bottom has brass figural ornaments, locking door and single...

Classic iron and glass vitrine from Argentina, made in the 1920s. Two doors open wide. 4 glass shelves. Glass on all sides. Mirrored bottom. Gorgeous display cabinet. Great vintage c...

A rare and very fine Edwardian mahogany display case by 'Edward and Roberts'. Inlaid with intricate floral marquetry throughout depicting swags, garlands, flowerheads and trailing be...

This 20th century wooden vitrine stems from Eastern Europe. The glass panel enclosure features two glass shelves. Above the door sits an ornately carved detail of latticework. The cu...

Art Nouveau style vitrine from Spain with classical carved decorative motifs. Sliding glass doors that open to the large show case which was normally...

A Secessionist style Arts and Crafts mahogany display cabinet with two upper beveled glass doors, and a central display cabinet with stylised flora...

Circa 1900 French bronze mounted mahogany vitrine, In the Louis XVI style, with 3 sides of glass panels and the original lock and key. The electr...

Very beautiful showcase in mahogany, Art Nouveau period early 1900 with foliage decor. Very good quality of decoration.

A French vitrine cabinet with glass door and sides, in walnut with rosewood and tulipwood, top with a grey marble top. The ormolu mounts give the cabinet the Louis XV styling tha...

- This French marble-top display/bookcase has doors with a scalloped shape and are crossbanded with bookmatched flame mahogany. The sides have flamed bookmatched mahogany panels. The...

A very fine French 19th/20th century Louis XVI style mahogany, kingwood and tulipwood parquetry three-door vitrine with ormolu-mounted floral wreaths, ribbons, female masks and centr...

Early 20th century French giltwood display cabinet French, early 20th century Measures: Height 175cm, width 130cm, depth 40cm This beauti...

One of a pair wonderful exhibition showcase for special collections with beautiful ornamentation from the 1930s. Former museum showcase from Brescia, ...

An extremely high quality and elegant French late 19th century Louis XVI period mahogany and ormolu-mounted cabinet vitrine which is finished on all sides. The cabinet is raised by t...

Empire style vitrine buffet antique, French, early 20th century Burled elm wood and bronze Beveled glass display cabinet. Good antique condition with su...

Italian Art Deco glazed display cabinet features an ebonised finish with curvy lines and silver toned metal sabots, circa 1930s. Cabinet has functional lock on door and two fixed int...

A very fine French Louis XV style Belle Époque mahogany and tulipwood ormolu-mounted vitrine cabinet with a Brêche violette marble top, attributed to François Linke (1855-1946). The ...

A delicate Italian étagère with four shelves on turned columns with finials on top. The étagère is made in walnut and has intricate inlaid designs in mahogany that is also called int...

- Made in Czechoslovakia - Made of cast iron, glass - With lighting and locking - Originally located at the entrance to the hotel or restaurant - Good, original condition.

It is difficult to sufficiently describe the quality and workmanship of this vitrine; the photos show more than any words can relate. The mounts are to the standard of the great Linke and may prove to be from his own workshop. Those which flank the door are busts of children...

Exceptional quality vitrine cabinet which works well as a display, having glass sides and a curved glass front panel which domes upward at the center. It has a mirrored back and mir...

Mahogany and mahogany veneer window opening with two doors with three glass panels and brass hoops, the uprights with half columns. England, 20th century. Measures: High 178 cm...

Louis XV style bronze mounted China display cabinet / Vitrine with exterior inlaid design details. The interior of the cabinet has two glass shelves and lined with gold patterned bro...

This beautiful breakfront vitrine showcases multiple shelves for displaying your favorite items. A locking glass door, which opens to a single shelf...

Introducing the unique custom-made shop window, the 1900 Art Nouveau bar It has been cleaned to the bare veneer, disinfected and hand finished with a high gloss shellac varnish. ...

An antique French Louis XVI style lift top table vitrine offers oval form with display having glass lift top with satinwood frame having ebonized banding throughout, raised on straight and tapered legs with lower red velvet display...

Louis XV style bronze mounted China display cabinet / vitrine with exterior inlaid design details. The interior of the cabinet has two glass she...

Tea cabinet Art Deco made of stained Jatoba wood. Designed by P.E.L. Izeren (1886-1943) and produced by de Genneper Molen, the Genneper Mill in 1930. Thi...

An early 20th century fine and rare French Art Nouveau carved and inlaid Marquetry "Fleurs d'Aubépine" (Hawthorne flowers) walnut single door display cabinet by, French Master Furnit...

A wonderful exhibition showcase, one of two, for special collections, with beautiful ornamentation from the 1930s, former museum showcase from Brescia ...

This display case has an ogee shaped Carrera marble top framed by gold molding. The frieze has two recessed panels with incised gold stylized arabesques. The front stiles have two su...

Elegant and handsome vintage French 2-piece display cabinet / tallboy. An ideal piece of decor for storing porcelain and wine glasses. The top has glass partition...

Edwardian Cadbury’s counter top sweet shop display cabinet This glazed shop display cabinet is made mahogany, the glass has etched lettering on the front of the cabinets saying Ca...

A gilt-bronze mounted burr amboyna and mahogany vitrine cabinet French, circa 1900 All sides fitted with beveled glass and opening to shelves, Measures: Height 63.25 in. (160.65 c...

A stunning French mahogany Empire style vitrine with classical gilded ormolu scrolling mounts, glass shelves, a flamed mahogany panel beneath with a shelf and raised on classical car...

Ernst Rockhausen Bauhaus style plywood and oak display cabinet, Germany, 1920s Size: 88" W 26-16" D 98.5" H. This furniture comes in 2 parts.  

Country French carved oak vitrine display cabinet with Linenfold Panels, circa 1900, with glazed side panels, sliding glass door to front, over double-...

A fine French 19th-20th century kingwood and tulipwood marquetry and gilt-bronze mounted vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door display cabinet with a red-velvet backing and bowed glass panels surmounted with acanthus and floral gilt-bronze mounts in the style of Léon Messagé (French, 1842-1901), the serpentine shaped front door with an ornate marquetry and ink colored panel depicting wreaths, ribbons and tied acantus leaves, all raised on four cabriolet legs ending with gilt-bronze paw-feet, Paris, circa 1900. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinet maker, Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873. He subsequently travelled to Prague, Budapest & Weimar before finally arriving in Paris in 1875. It is documented that he obtained employment with an unknown German cabinetmaker in Paris, and stylistic similarities, photographs and geographical proximity have led some to suggest that Emmanuel Zwiener was the most likely candidate. After a period back in his home town of Pankratz, he returned once and for all to Paris in 1877. In 1878 Paris hosted the third great International Exhibition, a remarkable success for a country ravaged by war only seven years earlier. It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger. By 1889 another World’s Fair, as they were often referred to in America, took place in Paris. Monsieur Eiffel erected what has become the most iconic building in Paris for the exhibition and the atmosphere of wealth and confidence may well have encouraged Linke to think that he could contribute an important part to the next great exhibition. As early as 1892 this was decreed to take place at the end of the century, in an attempt to pre-empt Berlin from staging the last great show of the century. In 1892, Victor Champier (fr) one of the commissioners for the 1900 Paris Fair had appealed, “Create in the manner of the masters, do not copy what they have made”. It was an appeal against mere reproduction and Linke rose to this challenge in an unparalleled way with his unique display that was to include the Grand Bureau. Determined to outshine the competition at the Exhibition, Linke had set about creating the most ambitious pieces he could envisage, and more extravagant than had ever been displayed before. The items he exhibited marked a transition from the historicist interpretation of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, an interpretation that was the mainstay of his nearest rivals, to something startlingly new and vital in its immediacy. [6] Together with Léon Messagé he developed a new style for the 1900 Exhibition that paid homage to the Louis XV rococo in the fluidity of its approach, but an approach fused with the lively flowing lines of the contemporary and progressive 'art nouveau'. The Art Journal reported in 1900 on Linke's stand: "The work of M. Linke ... was an example of what can be done by seeking inspiration amongst the classic examples of Louis XV and XVI without in any great sense copying these great works. M. Linke's work was original in the true sense of the word, and as such commended itself to the intelligent seeker after the really artistic things of the Exhibition. Wonderful talent was employed in producing the magnificent pieces of furniture displayed". Linke's stand would have appeared refreshingly new to contemporary onlookers, the traditional designs of the eighteenth century melting seamlessly into an exuberant naturalism. The 'Revue' described Linke's style as 'entièrement nouveaux' and noted "This opinion is universally accepted. Linke's stand is the biggest show in the history of art furniture in the year 1900". It is perhaps the most extraordinary and remarkable aspect of Linke’s personal history that he produced such expensive and luxurious furniture of exquisite quality for the 1900 exhibition without any commission or any potential buyer in mind. [9] At a time when other more established furniture businesses such as those of Beurdeley and Dasson were closing down, he made a huge investment in his stand and the furniture he supplied for it. Linke recognised that to move his business forward he needed to appeal to a more International clientele and the new emerging rich who were at this time amassing fortunes on an unprecedented scale. For this reason he gambled everything he had on his display for the 1900 exhibition. Had this not succeeded he would almost certainly have succumbed to bankruptcy. Linke’s notebook records visitors to his stand from England, Europe, the Americas, Egypt and Japan and including; the King of Sweden, three visits from the King of Belgium, Prince Radziwill, the Prince d’Arenberg, the Comte Alberic du Chastel, Miss Anna May Gould, the American heiress, distinguished furniture makers and the President of France Emile Loubet. This risky endeavour was a resounding success, and with his reputation established, La Maison Linke became the pre-eminent furniture house until outset of the Second World War. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented was never to be repeated. His showrooms expanded into prestigious premises in Paris, in the Place Vendôme as well as the Faubourg St. Antoine where his workshop had been established. He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers. After the 1914-1918 World War, Linke undertook the extraordinary commission to furnish the Ras al-Tin Palace in Alexandria for King Fuad of Egypt, possibly the largest single furniture commission ever conceived, eclipsing even Versailles. Linke flourished and remained active until the middle years of the 1930s and died in 1946 Léon Messagé (1842-1901) was a French sculptor, best known for his sculptural collaboration with François Linke for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Messagé was also responsible for much of the design and creative work for Roux et Brunet...

French fruitwood wooden showcase vitrine with four-drawer Measures: Height to the drawers 33.46in.

Impressive Art Deco cabinet in the manner of Otto Prutscher of Wiener Werkstätte with 2 sidedoors and a central display case with a transparent glass door showing discreet pattern of...

Large Art Deco cabinet-showcase, wood structure that can be completely dismantled. Central block with one door in splendid mahogany veneer and m...

A fine and unusual English 19th century Edwardian style painted satinwood and silver-mounted two-door side cabinet with a twin-front-doors and a single apron drawer. The doors, sides...

Two gorgeous vitrines in carved wood, with numerous incrustations of mother of pearl engraved and re-ornamented. The design of the central p...

For sale is a very good quality Edwardian rosewood and inlaid cabinet. The top of the cabinet has three beveled mirrors, with two cabinet sections, one on each side, both with glazed...

This antique French vitrine is presumed to have been made in the Edwardian time period and is intricately inlaid with various fruitwood panels, ...

A fine French, 19th-20th century Louis XV style mahogany and gilt bronze-mounted Vitrine by Haentges Freres. The single door cabinet surmounted with or...

Unique three-door Arts & Crafts bookcase / book shelves with hand carved sculptural door panels. If you are looking for a truly stylish and top quality crafted bookcase, then this ...

A Fine French 19th-20th century Louis XV style ormolu-mounted tulipwood vitrine with marble top, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door cabinet fitted w...

Aluminum sideboard opening with a door on the right and two drawers surmounted by a showcase with two sliding windows on the left. It is made of b...

An unusual Edwardian display cabinet in the Adam manner By F. Sage & Co Constructed from solid mahogany, the oval display cabinet supported ...

A very fine French Louis XV style ormolu and jasperware-mounted mahogany single door vitrine, attributed to François Linke (1855-1946). The two upper front corners surmounted with or...

Elegant antique vitrine in walnut veneered with refined inlays and bevelled mirrors. Essential line typical of the early Liberty period of the early 1900s. Good internal capacity. Th...