Rare 19th Century French Museum Quality Dore Bronze Louis XV Table Desk Bureau

The Following Item we are Offering is An Outstanding French 19th Century Museum Quality Rare Empire-Style Mahagony and Gilt Bronze Tier Table, the top supported by standing female fi...

The Following Item we are Offering is a Rare Outstanding 19th Century Museum Quality French Mahogony Marble and Bronze Table. Table is done with Outstanding Scrolled Bronze Detail. S...

The Following Item we are offering is a An Exceptional Museum Quality French Country Ladies Vanity Writing Desk with 5 Drawers. Circa 1920's. The Rounded Rectangular Top with an Ormo...

The Following Item is a Magnificent Rare Museum Quality Estate Bronze Sculpture of a Beautifully Draped Woman Holding a Jug. Bronze is Finely Done with Outstanding Detail and Fine Pa...

The Following Item we are Offering are An Important Pair of Rare Outstanding Pair of Gilt-Bronze Louis XVI Style Bronze Mounted Marble Gueridon Tables in the Manner of Adam Weisweile...

The Following Items we are Offering is A GILT BRONZE MOUNTED BURL WOOD ADAM WEISWEILLER GUÉRIDON TABLE. the circular rouge marble top within a conforming flat band above leaf-tip ca...

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...

A late 19th century French 'bureau plat' or writing desk, each pedestal with two drawers and standing on elegant cabriole legs with ormolu feet, and united by and 'x' stretcher. Fini...

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 very large French Louis XV style bureau plat partners desk from the late 19th century with an old black leather tooled top. This desk is beautifully veneered in kingwood and rosewo...

19th Century glossy ebonized Louis XV style bureau plat with lovely bronze ormolu and black leather top with gilded embossing.