19th Century Wardrobes and Armoires

19th century Chinese red lacquer two-door wedding cabinet decorated with hand drawn vegetable motifs and fitted with bronze lock.  

Ogdens of Manchester, in style of Dr C Dresser, An Aesthetic Movement three-piece bedroom suite made from Ash with intricate stylized fruitwood ...

Whimsical 19th century Italian cabinet armoire or linen press crafted in the Baroque taste. The case features a painted finish with two large storage doors decorated with Trompe L'oe...

Beautiful Italian armoire made up of exceptional carved and painted panels.

Biedermeier wardrobe, South German 1820, walnut veneer. Classic Biedermeier design with beautiful veneer grain. the cabinet is refinished and French polis...

Napoleon III cabinet or Petite armoire, French 19th century Ebonized, Boulle Style details, bronze inlay, gilt bronze mounts, marble top. Its neoclas...

Antique French hand-carved walnut display cabinet, Circa 1890-1910.

19th century plank top signed and dated. This multipurpose item would make a great bar, a gate in a house or as a prop. This sold wood stand has a weight in the back side and also co...

Very elegant, strict and original neoclassical early Biedermeier Armoire from South Germany, circa 1815-1820. Wonderful book-matched walnut veneer on softwood, hand-polished with shellac (French polish). Two doors and one-drawer above. The veneer is very beautifully running thought the whole front and bottom part. Ebonized half-columns with newly gold-plated Corinthian capitals and bases. Horn inlays around the key holes. Elegant conical square tapered ebonized legs. Original iron lock and old key...

This pine armoire has an exterior mustard color paint and exposed peg construction. The feet, drawer liners, crown molding, and hardware are later. There are shrinkage cracks in the ...

19th century French Renaissance Barley twist armoire was crafted by master artisans from solid, old-growth indigenous oak during the Napoleon III ...

A Chinese Qing dynasty period cabinet from the 19th century, with carved panels depicting Guanyin and Daoist immortals. Created in China during the Qing dynasty, this 19th century cabinet attracts our attention with its beautifully contrasting colors and carved motifs. Depicting the bodhisattva Guanyin as well as Daoist immortals, the façade presents small doors in the upper section followed by two larger ones creating a focal point with their black ground highlighting their decorative motifs to perfection. The doors open to reveal inner shelves and hidden drawers while the lower section completes the ensemble with its two drawers fitted with hardware. Resting on straight legs accented with carved spandrels, this Qing dynasty carved cabinet...

19th century Dutch hand carved Renaissance raised cabinet was rendered from dense, old-growth quarter sawn oak, examples of which are on displa...

Solid oak. High-quality carving with medallion carvings. Both containers also with rich carvings. (V-123).

Exquisite Biedermeier Armoire, Vienna 1820 This exquisite original Biedermeier wardrobe stands out for its beautiful walnut root veneer. Ebonized half colu...

Large 19th century English Elm armoire.

19th century Anglo-Indian jackwood and ebony cabinet. Dutch colonial era from Ceylon. Two part cabinet resting on ebonized base (3 parts).

English Renaissance style (19th-20th century) highboy cabinet with a painted pastoral scene on the front 2 doors and sides with two harp-shaped legs wi...

Very fine traditional antique French armoire with a useful and hard to come by 12” depth. A carved bonnet over a frieze with carved cross motif. With the Classic shaped and carved bu...

Asian Chinese-style (19th Century) large carved and lacquered armoire cabinet with side shelves and filigree carved pediment on base

Large, original Biedermeier Armoire in cherry veneer, from Rhineland, Germany circa 1820. Wonderful, bright cherry veneer, hand-polished with shellac (French Polish). Beautiful big...

European painted armoire has floral painted panels surrounded by deep carved moldings. The sides have a deep chamfer. The cornice and base are detacha...

Dresser/Armoire from the Puerto Rican cabinetmaker Rafael Margarida who established his workshop in Old San Juan since 1892. The pediment has two inverted...

Beautiful original Biedermeier Armoire, South Germany 1820. This classic Biedermeier piece with two doors is embellished with a beautiful walnut and cherry veneer and accentuated wi...

Morris and Co. Attributed. A fine quality Arts & Crafts oak treble linen press with cross banded inlays with extended squares to the corners, the upper section with three doors openi...

French cherry armoire has the original steel hardware and working lock and key. The front and cornice are made of cherry. The front has a recesse...

Beautiful early 19th century, circa 1830, William IV Period, mahogany Regency Gothic Revival wardrobe or armoire or linen press with central mirrored tabernacle and 5-drawer chest of...

American 19th century painted Folk Art marriage chest and hanging cupboard A very rare and unusual American painted Folk Art Marriage chest and hanging cupboard, the cupboard has ...

Bruce Talbert (1838-1881) for Gillow and co., a rare and important walnut, amboyna, ebonized, and gilt bedroom suite, each with differing carved rosettes, comprising: a triple mirror door wardrobe, 208cm high, 208cm wide, 58cm deep; a pair of bedside lockers, 85cm high, 38cm wide; and a pair of single bedsteads, 124cm wide Provenance: The famous Argentinian writer and suffragette Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), bought from her estate and shipped back from Argentina. Bruce James Talbert originally trained as a carver and then an architect, and he became an influential and very successful furniture designer. He served an apprenticeship in Dundee and had his own carving business for two years where he learned the skills to apply carved details to furniture and then joined the architectural offices of Charles Edward. In 1856 he moved to Glasgow and worked for the architects W. N. Tait and Campbell Douglas. He moved to Manchester in the early 1860s, where he gained employment with the cabinetmakers Doveston, Bird, and Hull, which was short-lived, then moved to Coventry gaining work with Skidmore's Art Manufactures. In 1863 he won the competition to design the masthead for 'The Building News and in the mid-1860s moved to London, where he started designing furniture for Holland and Sons. His 'Pericles' Gothic sideboard was displayed on their stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 where it was the Grand Prix winner. It was at this point that his most prolific period began and also when he started designing furniture for Gillows of Lancaster in 1868. in the same year, he published his very influential first book 'Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes', which he dedicated to George Edmund Street. This was followed in 1876 by 'Examples of Ancient and Modern Furniture, Metalwork, Tapestries and Modern Furniture' and in 1881 by 'Fashionable Furniture. Other companies he designed for were Marsh, Jones and Cribb, Jackson and Graham, and for a short time, was a partner with Daniel Cottier. He designed textiles for Templeton's, Warner's, Cowlishaw, and Barbour and Miller; carpet designs for Templeton's and Brinton and Co.; and his wallpaper designs were printed by Jeffrey and Co. He also designed church metalwork and furniture for Cox and Sons...

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 hand-painted cabinet made of pinewood. This cabinet has one door and one drawer. Original interior and locks. Originates Riesengebirge, Bohemen, dating circa 1850.

Beautiful wardrobe from the time of the Art Nouveau. Made of solid/veneer cherrywood. The panels of the doors and the sides are veneered, the rest is made of solid cherrywood. The wa...

Utterly stunning marquetry inlaid armoire, circa 1800s. The superb craftsmanship seen in this exceptional armoire indicates it was a commissioned piece created by a true master; this...

19th century Philippine bamboo, walnut and oak six-drawer dressing table with marble top.

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...

Folk art painted armoire. Interior shelving has been added to accommodate computer etc. We can customize interior for any needs.

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare one of a kind Pauly CIE Et stamped hand carved walnut armoire made by the genius that was Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim 1837-1910 Where to begin, this cabinet is stamped to the rear “Fabrique De Meubles Pauly & Cie Venise. Pauly & Cie” who were a world famous glass foundry and later equally famous furniture manufacturer. Their grotto furniture has an immense following across the world. This piece was most likely retailed through them as it was made by Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim who is a fellow venetian There is one other known example of his works which is very similar, it is currently retailing for no less than £900,000 however it is accompanied by a few other pieces from a drawing room suite. The suite came from Palazzo Papadopoli, a Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal in Venice built for the Coccini family by Giovanni de Grigi around 1560. I will include some further history below on both Pauly CIE ET and Moses Michelangelo Guggenheium On to the armoire, it is clearly the most ornate tour de force of carving you will ever see, I’m thankful it has managed to survive so long without being broken up by salvagers looking to reclaim the sculptures. You can see in the carving elements of Pauly’s inspiration in the form of shells. You also have Putti’s riding dolphins and so on. We have fully treated it as there were various signs of old worm, it’s then been cleaned waxed and polished. One of the hidden hinges has been replaced, otherwise it is in near perfect condition for the age. The insides houses three wood shelves Dimensions Height 255.5cm top to bottom, without the removable top carving 211cm Width 170cm arm to arm of the chaps on the outside, 172cm at the top, 166cm at the bottom Depth 63cm top, 55cm middle, 59cm bottom Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim Leading expert of decorative arts in late 19th century Venice, Michelangelo Guggenheim (1831-1910) also was one of the greatest antiquarians and a modern furniture producer in the “City of Water”. His collections stored in the Balbi Palace on the Grand Canal were an outstanding sight, that art amateurs would recommend. At the age of 20, he founds a "Stabilimento d’arti decorative e industriali" which purpose is the industrial creation of objects bearing an artistic force. The furniture that made him worldwide famous re-imagines ancient styles, freeing their aesthetic powers to serve modern imagination. Often in walnut, his pieces of furniture sent to World Fairs impress people by the finesse of their sculptures. A prized designer as well, he reorganizes princely interiors in the same spirit. His most famous work is the Palazzo Papadopoli's design about 1874, where he unfolds the vocabulary of several periods. He conceives there a richly furnished Neo-Renaissance Cabinet that relived the Italian golden age. For the exceptional result he is awarded the Gold Medal of merit for science and arts by Ludwig II of Bavaria. Pauly & Cie Venise Since its foundation (1866), Pauly & C. has stood for elegance, creativity and Venetian luxury. The ancient Roman technique known as “murrine”, which today is the symbol of Murano glass, was reproduced for the first time in its workshops and was presented to the world at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878. In 150 years of business Pauly & C. has produced unique works for royal palaces, public buildings, private villas and has served an international client base that includes some of the most prominent names from the world of culture and art, figures from the world of industry and finance, politicians and nobility. Pauly & C. - C.V.M. (compagnia Venezia Murano) works are currently held in many private collections and exhibited in some of the most prestigious museums in the world. In the last years of activity, Pauly has been active with three distinct brands: • Pauly & C. CVM, the time-honoured company that produces classic objects, recreating old designs and collections and offering modern reinterpretations of them. • Pauly Glass Factory, which continues its association with artists and designers to produce artistic works with modern lines. • MVM Interior operates throughout the world with architects, interior designers and design studios for the creation of prestigious personalized projects History Compagnia di Venezia e Murano C.V.M. began as Salviati &C. in London in 1866 under the direction of Vicenza attorney Antonio Salviati and with the backing of two British men: archaeologist Austen Henry Layard and antiquarian Sir William Drake. The company was dedicated to using ancient techniques and utilized master glassblowers in its efforts to do so. It called in specialists from other fields like goldsmithing and engraving to ensure authenticity and employed artist Giuseppe Devers to teach the techniques of enamelling and heat-applied glass gilding to company artisans. Archaeologist Layard was particularly interested in the mosaic glass techniques of Roman and pre-Roman artists, and he spent years personally overseeing the work of the company's technicians and glassblowers in attempting to revive those techniques. In 1872, the company was successful, managing to replicate the type of glass commonly known as "murrina". The company was renamed Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company Limited in 1872, and, in 1877, Layard purchased Salviati's interest so that Salviati could pursue other interests. The company quickly earned a reputation for quality original glass art and reproductions as well as its many mural mosaics in Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe. In 1878, the murrine produced by Compagnia di Venezia e Murano was included in its exhibit at the International Exhibition in Paris, which was the chief attraction in Italian glass. In its observations of the display, the United States Commission to the Paris exposition commented not only on "Roman murrine glass", but also particularly on the mural glass mosaics, the "perfection of which" had "engaged the earnest attention of the company." Mosaics produced by the company during the time period are still in existence in diverse areas such as Gonville and Caius...

A 19th century Brazilian painted wood cabinet, just over 8 feet tall. This antique wooden wardrobe from Brazilian retains it's original paint, ...

A shelf cabinet/ storage cabinet from the Biedermeier period, made in the 1830s and featuring a walnut veneer and decorative motifs typical for this period. This cabinet was professi...

Very nice beautiful cabinet with straight lines. The cabinet dates from the Biedermeier period and was made of cherrywood, partly solid and partly veneered on spruce wood around 1830...

English Victorian black lacquered armoire with gilt embellishments, painted Moorish scenes, and mirrored door.

An Indian carved wooden tall cabinet from the 19th century, with scrolling foliage and beaded accents. Crafted in India during the 19th century, t...

Elegant large Empire or early Biedermeier armoire with original brass hardware and gorgeous walnut veneer. The armoire has a beautiful book-matched walnut veneer and is shellac hand-polished (French Polish). The doors inside are counter veneered in cherry wood. Two ebonized full-columns with corinthian brass...

A finely crafted armoire with parquetry banded double doors and sides inlaid with matching shaped burled panels. Brass escutcheons with a key. The carved cornice with ebonized moldin...

19th century wardrobe steamer trunk.

This 19th century Swedish armoire was handcrafted from solid pine, and features two large doors over two lower doors with hand forged pulls. The two lower doors appear to be drawers,...

A Chinese wooden cabinet from the 19th century, with brass hardware. This elegant Chinese cabinet adopts a rectangular shape, standing on four straight legs. The two doors open to reveal a black interior comprising of a shelf and two drawers. All open via brass pear...

This armoire has dramatic presence thanks to the heavily paneled doors reflective of its baroque style. The stained pine has taken on a deep patina after almost 200 years of use. The...

Rustic Black Forest (19th Century) walnut 3 section armoire cabinet with carved triple animal head pediment and oval mirror in center door with 3 dra...

Asian Chinese-style (19th Century) large carved teakwood 3 door armoire cabinet with oval mirror

Mid-19th century neoclassic wardrobe cupboard in massive wood lacquered faux wood; with columns and hand carved capitals. Wardrobe restored leaving the signs of aging in precious la...

A large Chinese Qing Dynasty elmwood armoire from the 19th century, with hand carved panels, red lacquered accents and bronze hardware. Created in China during the 19th century, this...

This wedding armoire is hand carved with detailing that reflects symbols of wealth and prosperity. Traditionally the armoire was hand built and carved ...

This is a very nice original hand-painted Bohemian Armoire. The outside is hand-painted in a green color with hand-painted stars to the door in a cream color. We have the original ke...

A hidden story lies just under the surface of this remarkable armoire. At first glance, one notices the perfect symmetry of the large cabinet. But take a moment to look deeper, you w...

The closet is two-door, with an advanced cornice with two drawers. The upper section ends with a simple crest. The crest is decorated with a stripe with an ornament, and a profiled ...

This very fine 19th century cabinet from Northern China is made of ironwood. Iron wood, known in Mandarin as Tieli and prized by collectors, comes from the tallest Chinese hardwood tree and is very durable with a coarse texture and distinctive open grain. This substantial cabinet projects quiet harmony and balanced tension among its austere construction, rich timber, and thoughtfully placed handmade white brass hardware...

Dutch KAS wardrobe cabinet from the 19th century. Solid oak mitered on door panels rosewood raised panels on door panels and solid oak Bun feet and single d...