Biedermeier Armoire

French Art Deco Armoire in macassar ebony with 2 center mirrored doors and 2 outer doors with marquetry. Interior drawers and shelves.

French Art Deco armoire made of amboyna burl with marquetry and inlaid mother-of-pearl. Large rectangular mirrored center door and two large si...

Art Deco Cabinet made of walnut and ebonized wood with brass hardware, glazed doors and interior shelves.

Manufactured in the Western part of the Old Austro-Hungarian Empire. Changed and supplemented first half of 19th C.. Monogram "BEWM1753" private estate Bavaria. Restored and repoli...

Straightlined, unadorned early Biedermeier Armoire from Austria, circa 1820. This two-door neoclassical armoire or wardrobe has a beautifully selected, book-matched walnut veneer and ebonized full columns with carved capitals and bases. It has been fully restored and hand-polished with shellac (French Polished). Underneath the cornice, there is a skirting trim made of walnut roots veneer. Inside it has 5 shelf-plates covered in black fabric. The strict, straight lined design makes it an ideal...

An impressive cabinet from the early Biedermeier period circa 1810, the cabinet was built with a spruce body covered with flamed birch veneer. The flamed birch, the protruding door i...

Original lock and key This piece of furniture shows no recess on its upper part. It opens with four folding-doors and two drawers within the belt. The key bears the date 1524 above cross motifs. Burgundy and Lyon regions subordinated themselves to architecture in a different manner than the other french schools. Rather than using particularly columns and pediments pieces of furniture from Lyon borrow architecture’s organization principles and rigorous designs. On the upper body a strong feeling of balance and symmetry appears with the folding doors reliefs. Swags of flowers and fruits held with knot cloth centered by a man seating on his arms. Here profiles, masks and chou de Bourgogne mingle with the structuring scrolls. The two lateral terms wear draperies and the goddess Diana in the center wears a belt of fruits similar to Hugue Sambin’s designs (Termes de Diane et de Venus, 1554, BNF). The two palm-leaves enriched drawers and the alternating scrolls belt balance the weight of the cornice with its alternatings consoles and tops. The lower body is also adorned by three terms with a feminine one in the center, all three are wearing fruits on their heads. The folding doors are centered upon a motif of cut cuirs by a mask in high relief. Wearing a feathered tiara...

Charles Dudouyt armoire.