20th Century French Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat

20th Century French Louis XVI Revival desk. With finely cast guilt mount casts, kingwood cross banding and brass fillets to legs. Circa 1920.

A 19th Century French Parquetry Bureau Plat or Writing Table in Walnut and Tulipwood. This finely crafted bureau plat was conceived in the Louis XVI style and is rectilinear in styl...

A Fine French Louis XVI Period Parquetry Commode with Unusual Oyster Veneered Decoration. This fine commode is of typical Louis XVI form with chamfered angles, reflected in the shaping of the original white marble top, but otherwise rectangular in shape. The piece consists of three long drawers with original ormolu escutcheon plates and handles and a key. The commode is decorated entirely in parquetry in a range of woods such as kingwood and what appears to be olive wood or cocus. The top drawer front employs a simple repeating geometric relief but the other drawers, and the sides of the commode, employ panels of oyster veneered timber set in to geometric frames. Oyster veneering, or oystering, involves cutting through small branches or roots creating small oyster shell-like veneers and then inlaying them in decorative panels. The decoration on the this commode is abstract veneers of contrasting shapes, sizes and colours being laid next to each other in a pattern. This extremely unusual commode...

A fabulous quality 20th Century French Louis XV style bombe commode. Made in Kingwood, having three drawers with original handles and ormolu mounts. Topped with a lovely triple cut e...

A striking and high quality French mid-19th century Louis XV style kingwood and ormolu bureau plat. The desk is raised by elegant cabriole legs with fine fitted wraparound ormolu sab...

A most elegant French 19th century Louis XV st. kingwood and ormolu desk. The desk is raised by beautiful cabriole legs with fine wrap around ormolu sabots and a striking ormolu fill...

An exquisite quality French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted tulipwood and kingwood bureau plat attributed to Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener Attributed to Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener (1848...

An exquisite French 19th century Louis XV St. kingwood and ormolu desk, attributed to Linke. The kidney-shaped desk is raised by the most elegant slender cabriole legs with superb pi...