Louis XV Style Bronze-Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat Desk, 19th Century

Outstanding French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry mounted hexagonal top center table, 1st half of the 20th century. Meticulous attention has been given to every detail...

Unique 19th century Louis XV style finely carved oval oak dining table. The parquetry top on unusually curved frieze carved with shell and acanthus motif on eight cabriole legs endin...

Late 19 century French Louis XV stylekingwood veneered bureau plat with inset marble top over a gilt-bronze mounted apron with inset Sevres porcelain plaques and two frieze drawers r...

19th century French Louis XV style ormolu-mounted kingwood veneered console with marble top. Serpentine-fronted marble top over veneered frieze centered with a foliate motif ormolu m...

Elegant late 19 century French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted floral colored marquetry kingwood commode with marble top. A moulded beige serpentine-fronted marble top is over tw...

Elegant French 19c Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted and colored floral marquetry inlaid kingwood bombe fronted commode with yellowish brownish ma...

Castle worthy desk, solid wood. Rosewood veneer edged by finely engraved brass fittings. On angled, with four looking forward, imposing female busts on curly legs, on all sides scalloped, dreischübige frame with slightly recessed and elevated knee compartment. Protruding, profiled and curved writing...

Attractive Louis XV style bureau plat, gilt embossed tanned leather top writing surface centered on a beautiful satinwood veneered panel and...

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style bureau plat (Desk - Writing Table - Ladies Desk) Cartonnier by Antoine Krieger, the quarter-veneer satiné with fruitwood stringing, the cartonnier set with a circular timepiece above seven gilt-tooled brown leather faceted drawers, the bureau plat with a gilt tooled brown leather writing surface above three frieze drawers, all lock-plates stamped MON KRIEGER...

A very fine and large French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu-mounted mahogany and kingwood three-drawer bureau plat attributed to Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). The shaped rectangular top enclosing a gilt tooled brown leather writing surface within a molded border above a long central drawer enclosing a fine modeled mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt centered by flat cast encadrements and rosewood veneered a quatre faces flanked by two short drawers with reticulated escutcheons of scantly clad frolicking putti and doves over gadrooned "C" scrolls, trellis patterned panels on a stylized shell within similarly framed encadrements raised on elegant cabriole legs surmounted by bearded satyr masks ending in acanthus case hairy paw feet beneath sides centering bacchic masks. Lock mechanism stamped W S M, 6068, a key (lacking skeleton key), and 148. Veuve Paul Sormani Et Fils was the widow of the highly esteemed furniture maker Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). After his death around 1877 she and her son took over the management of the company continuing the tradition of producing fine French furniture of the highest calibre. An escutcheon and several mounts were examined on the reverse, and each was found to have the bronze master model initials "SJ:. Blue chalk inscription on underside Glle 117, Paris, circa 1880. Paul Sormani (1817-1877): Born in Venice, Paul Sormani set up in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. He specialized in creating furniture and works of art and was known for his high quality reproductions of Louis XV and XVI furniture...

A fine and large French 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted kingwood and tulipwood bureau plat (Desk or writing table). The shaped re...

A very fine and large French 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted kingwood and walnut bureau plat by H. Conquet after a model by Charles Cressent. The shaped rectangular t...