England - Vitrines

A fine late 19th century Napoleon III glazed cabinet on chest, the shaped grey marble top above a curved frieze and mounted with fine gilt bronze mounts. The vitrine with a full widt...

An impressive large gilt-bronze mounted mahogany vitrine. This impressive vitrine has a shaped cresting rail carved with acanthus above a pair of shaped doors with bevelled glass ...

A fine quality late 19th century mahogany oval table display cabinet, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts depicting cloven hoofed Bacchus influen...

SN2132 Truly excellent, Edwardian, mahogany display cabinet, having arched pediment inlaid with satinwood fan flanked by brass finials above flamed mahogany, inlaid frieze, astragal ...

Arts and Crafts Counter Top Shop Display Cabinet, Watches, Jewellery This is a Golden Oak fully glazed Shop Display Cabinet it has a glass door at the back and 5 adjustable glass shelves to the interior, the door has a working latch at the back This is a very attractive and useful piece, it is in good condition and would work well in a shop or for the collector with all round viewing The Cupboard is 35 24” high...

A Secessionist style Arts and Crafts mahogany display cabinet with two upper beveled glass doors, and a central display cabinet with stylised flora...

Charming Vernis Charming Vernis Martin Side or Music Cabinet This is a delightful cabinet, it has a wide slim scalloped shape with a marble top and ormolu mounts surrounding the lac...

A magnificent example of 19th century French Decorative Arts. The vitrine is pure opulence and has had no expense spared, with exotic decoration and materials used from top to bottom...

A Pair Sweet Shop Display Cabinets, Rowntree’s Chocolates This is a pair of glazed advertising Shop Display Cabinets they are made mahogany, the lettering ...

Rosewood China Cabinet, circa 1878, designed by Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) for Collinson & Lock, London. From the Collection of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England. The Eaton Hall cabinet, circa 1878, in rosewood, the scroll-carved broken arched Queen Anne pediment above a dentil and moulded frieze, with a pair of astragal glazed doors flanked by shelves beneath fielded panels, above a central drawer and semi-circular cupboards, the moulded top above a pair of panelled doors with an open panelled section beneath, on shaped splayed feet, japanesque engraved brass handles, hinges and lockplates, stamped 'Collinson and Lock, London 7480', the handles, hinges and lockplates all stamped 'Elsleys, Gt Portland St, London'. Provenance: Eaton Hall, Cheshire. A previous owner purchased this lot from a sale of the contents at Sweetenhams of Chester, 20th and 21st May 1959, where it states:- '283. Rosewood display cabinet, the upper portion enclosed with astragal glazed doors with side shelves, the lower portion enclosed with two panelled doors. This was the last mention of the Rosewood cabinet before it was sold. This piece has many features, which firmly show Godwin's hand at work, i.e. Queen Anne broken pediment, (Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', Butterfly cabinet, p. 227; and a Queen Anne cabinet p. 269 and an 'over door', p. 251), the dentil moulding to the top is identical to the Butterfly cabinet, the astragal glazed doors and panelled lower doors identical to a design for a table for Grey Towers (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 157 and similar detail to the doors on two cabinets on pp. 222-223). The semi-circular central side doors and semi-circular open shelves above are identical to a dressing table and a sketch for a dresser (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 211), a design for a mantelpiece (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 248) and a design for a buffet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 265). The integrated design of solids and voids in many of his cabinet designs and the framed back panels to each individual shelf and framed panels to each side is typical of his work. The splayed front feet are identical to the Four Seasons cabinet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 217). The elongated handles with japanesque engraved backplates simulate Japanese woven rush work (Susan Soros, 'E.W. Godwin Aesthetic Movement, Architect and Designer', p. 303, fig. 11-10 and Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 268) a detail he used in many combinations. 'Sheraton and Queen Anne in Japan at Eaton Hall' only Godwin could have designed this exceptional work of art. Possibly part of a larger commission, the Eaton Hall archivist also found a Collinson and Lock billiard table in the inventory at Eaton Hall. Godwin is known to have designed billiard tables for Collinson and Lock, a design appears in his sketchbook on the 6th of October 1873, carved in the Jacobean style with circular decorations of white storks in relief interspersed with square panels. A corresponding entry on the 7th of October 1873 it shows that he designed it for the McLaren house, a large commission that Godwin did at Adison Rd, Kensington. The third Marquis of Westminster, who later became the 2nd Duke of Westminster, commissioned Sir Alfred Waterhouse to substantially remodel and rebuild Eaton Hall. The work began in 1869 and reached its completion in 1883. The large drawing room can be seen in a photograph taken, circa 1887, pl. 199 in Cooper, Jeremy. Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, in which Cooper mentions that the Duke had spent 600,000 pounds on the decoration alone and that Heaton, Butler and Bayne carried out the work. In 1885, an inventory of the contents of Eaton Hall was carried out, and it is precisely at this point in time that the cabinet receives its first mention. Having occupied a place in the Ormand Sitting Room, 72 on the ground floor of the North Wing of the Waterhouse Hall, the cabinet was described as, 'A Rosewood china cabinet with cupboards beneath and glass fronts at the top, 50ins'. The cabinet is then mentioned again in a 1917 inventory in the Angel Bedroom. The cabinet made its next appearance in 1931 in the 'Declaration of Trusts', which was a valuation of the contents of Eaton Hall, appearing as T86/27 in the Stewards Offices with a similar description, and then finally in the 1959 sale catalogue mentioned above. Sotheby's and various other local auctioneers held many sales of the various contents of Eaton Hall from 1955 through to 1961 until the Hall was demolished in 1961. This description was compiled with the generous help and assistance of the Grosvenor Estate's Archive Department, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Collinson and Lock of London...

A Gothic Revival oak display cabinet with an open display area to the top and little ear shaped details to each side and a castellated decoration below the glazed door, with five arc...

Dr C Dresser attributed an Aesthetic Movement ebonized display cabinet with incised and gilded zig-zag decoration. Probably made for Bushloe House. I wa...

circa 1890 19thC French Ebonised Glazed Cabinet sku 340 W121 x D42 x H198 cm Internal shelf depth 28.5 cm Weight 76 kg

Sn5115 Very attractive, Victorina walnut display cabinet, having outstanding burr walnut top with moulded edge above string inlaid frieze and a glazed door fitted with original worki...

For sale is an Edwardian mahogany hand painted china cabinet, having painted decoration to the shop top, above two astregal glazed doors openi...

Stephen Webb for Collinson & Lock of London. An outstanding exhibition quality satinwood and marquetry Renaissance Revival inlaid corner cabinet of the s...

A fine late 19th century French vitrine cabinet, single glazed door, two glass shelves and lower storage. The front panel painted ...

Collinson & Lock. An outstanding quality Aesthetic Movement Anglo-Japanese walnut side cabinet with dentil moulding to the cornice and astr...

A very imposing late 19th Century French Louis XVI style bombe fronted glass Vitrine, having gilded ormolu scrolling foliate mounts, hand painted panels to the sides and door depicti...

Sn5387 Finest turn of the century French display cabinet in rosewood, having original marble top above geometrically inlaid frieze and a glass door fitted with original working loc...

French neoclassical style gilt bronze mounted ebonized wood display cabinet French, late 19th century Measures: Height 164cm, width 122cm, depth 40cm This fine display cabinet, attr...

circa 1890. Pair 19th C English mahogany glazed cabinets with original keys. Sold as a pair. Excellent Form. sku 1227. Measures: W30 x D24...

This is a Spanish display cabinet, from the 1970s, it features a striking combination of brass and copper sheets, giving it a rich, mottled ef...

A fine quality late 19th century French display cabinet, in the manner of Francoise Linke. Having wonderful gilded ormolu rococo s...

A fine quality late 19th Century French Kingwood bow fronted glazed Louis XIV style vitrine, in the manner of Francoise Linke. Having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts, moulds and swag ...

These refined display cabinets, or vitrines, are perfect for elegantly complimenting the display of trinkets without outshining them. The cabinets are crafted in rectangular form fro...

A very good quality pair of late 19th century French mahogany bow fronted display cabinets, each with a gallery to the top, gilded ormolu foliate and molded mounts, central doors with a glass shelf within, a frieze drawer above a shelf beneath with a paneled back and raised on elegant cabriole legs. Signed; Paul Sormani (1817-1877), one the most important cabinetmakers of the 19th century, was born in Venice. Having trained as a cabinetmaker, he moved to Paris where he opened his first shop in 1847 specializing in furniture made in the Louis XV and Louis XVI style. When she decorated her palace, Empress Eugenie, the wife of Emperor Napoleon III, who was particularly fond of furniture in the 18th century styles, engaged Sormani to create spectacular pieces to compliment her period examples. Sormani was able to meet the Empress’s high standards with the excellent quality of the cabinet work, bronze mounts, use of lacquer and unusual marbles. Sormani’s firm was a maker of fine “meubles de luxe”, (deluxe furniture) whose work was described in the 1867 Exposition Universelle catalogue as “toute sa production revele une qualite d’execution de tout premier ordre”. He received a medal of premiere classe at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, followed by another medal at the 1862 exposition in London The workshop also made eclectic furniture...

For your consideration is this truly fabulous & genuinely rare example Art Deco English display cabinet. We haven't had this design in quite a number of years so it is quite a rare f...

Victorian Empire Tea Cabinet, Tea Room, Cafe Display A magnificent piece of social history a Victorian Grocers shop cupboard, with a blue mirror cornice...

Exquisite quality 19th century display cabinet, Topped with marble above scrolling foliage, a single door opening to two glass shelves, with gilded ormolu mounted all over the vitrine. Stamped KRIEGER PARIS...

A fine quality 19th century French Louis XVI style bombe fronted vitrine, having wonderful quality gilded ormolu female monopodia mounts, floral marquetry inlaid panels to the sides ...

An oval mahogany wine cooler, George III period, circa 1790. With excellent, unrestored, deep, rich color and patination, and original solid-brass carrying handles to either side. This smart Georgian wine cooler (cellaret or cellarette) retains its original waxed surface and patina. It is brass-bound (of coopered construction) supported on its separate, original stand. Raised on square tapering legs terminating in its original brass cappings and castors. It can be also used as a small side table or lamp table. Comes with a bespoke, clear, safety glass cover. Nb. An antique oval wine cooler of this design is quite rare, and makes a very elegant addition to a dining room sideboard, or an occasional table in a drawing room. By removing the top, some examples of this form of wine cooler were often later converted to be used as jardinières. See Christies, 23rd May 2013, lot 23: a mahogany oval wine cooler sold @ £17,500. Literature: Ralph Edwards CBE FSA 'Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture', Hamlyn, London (Fourth Impression 1972) p. 640: “In late Georgian times the wine cooler was generally a plain mahogany tub hooped with brass and standing on four legs. Mary Kenyon in a letter to her mother (October 30th 1775) wrote that among the furniture in the parlour of her new house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields was a ''handsome cistern of mahogany with brass hoops etc. under the sideboard”. A typical example of a brass-bound wine cooler is shown in a picture by Zoffany, representing William Ferguson...

An unusual French 19th century kingwood, vernis martin vitrine in the style of a Sedan chair. Having serpentine glass to the front and sides. Bombe fronted painted panels, ormolu mou...

A good quality late 19th century French Louis XVI style Kingwood vitrine, having gilded ormolu mounts, serpentine fronted with shaped glass panels, glass shelves within, foliate marq...

A very good quality late 19th century French kingwood vitrine. Having gilded ormolu mounts, a single glass door, opening to reveal two shelves within. Raised on cabriole legs, termin...

A fine quality French 19th century Kingwood vitrine, having ormolu swags and drapes. parquetry inlaid panel to the door and adjustable glass shelves.

A very imposing French 19th Century Walnut, ormolu mounted vitrine / display cabinet. Having an arched egg and dart molded glazed door, opening to reveal a glass shelf and mirror bac...

This beautiful display cabinet was crafted by the prestigious furniture company, Maison Krieger. The firm was founded in 1826 by Antoine Krieger. Over the course of the 19th century,...

For sale is a very good quality Edwardian rosewood and inlaid cabinet. The top of the cabinet has three beveled mirrors, with two cabinet sections, one on each side, both with glazed...

Large early 20th century French gilt metal mounted vitrine, serpentine and bombe form, C-scroll pediment decorated with extending flower heads, shaped front enclosed by single glazed...

A very good quality late 19th century French verni martin vitrine. Having gilded ormolu monopodia and scolling foliate mounts...

Sn5113 Outstanding Victorian three door credenza / display cabinet in thuya wood, having attractive top with coromandel banding and ormolu edge above inlaid frieze and panelled cupbo...

A French mahogany vitrine, circa 1900, marble top, the glazed door enclosing a silk-lined interior of three shelves and with glazed cavetto sides, having a central parquetry panel be...

Matched pair of 19th Century French Kingwood serpentine fronted vitrines, each with classical gilded ormolu mounts, adjustable shelves within, Verni Martin hand painted panels depict...

A fine quality late 19th century French bombe shaped display cabinet in the Louis XVI style, having wonderful scrolling gilded ormolu mounts, original marble to the tops, serpentine ...

A stunning 18th Century Ormolu Mounted French Kingwood Cabinet/Vitrine. The cabinet features twin large glazed doors. Each door is finished wi...

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Centre Display Cabinet or ‘Vitrine de Milieu’, By Paul Sormani, Paris. The oval vitrine cabinet...

A very good quality late 19th century French break fronted marble topped Vitrine. Having wonderful classical gilded ormolu mounts and plaques with scrollingq C scrolls, foliage, Rams and putti blowing horns...

A fine late 19th century calamander wood vitrine cabinet, the top, and front veneered in calamander wood and the sides ebonised, the front and corners ...

A fine quality late 19th century French Kingwood, marble topped Louis XVI style vitrine, having wonderfully fine gilded ormolu classical mounts, a single glazed door opening to revea...

A very large and impressive fine quality 19th century French mahogany Virine, in the style of Louis XVI by 'Francoise Linke'. Having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foli...

We are delighted to offer this stunning original 18th century Louis XVI Bijouterie Vitrine side table with original silk lining A truly stunning ...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany vitrine, by Alfred Louis Beurdeley. French, circa 1880. Stamped to the carcass ‘A. Beurdeley à Paris’. This fine mahogany...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare George III mahogany sideboard from Ince Castle Saltash and restored in 1988 for Patricia Viscountess Boyd. A very rare find, i ha...

A good quality 19th century French marquetry inlaid vitrine, having gilded ormolu mounts, shaped glass to the sides and doors, glass shelves within and raised on elegant out swept le...

In the Louis XIV style, the tortoiseshell and brass inlaid ebonized wood body, with three wooden shelves, the front with glazed doors, surmounted with a white marble top.

A rare English mahogany wine waiter or bottle carrier / stand. Of superb colour and patination. Mid-18th century, late George II period, circa 1750-1760. This fine, larger-than-usual, Georgian example retains its original lion mask gilt-brass mounts, and has survived with its original fretted angles. Rare to find in this excellent condition in view of the considerable use to which it would have put been during the last 265 or so years. These scarce open-topped Chippendale period wine waiters serve as bottle carriers raised on legs, with brass castors. They were designed to allow bottles to be circulated around a dining room for guests to help themselves. They had divisions, separated from their stands, and also had a central arched-shaped carrying handle. When not-in-use these wine waiters, or wine wagons...

A fine quality piece with superbly cast ormolu mounts against dark mahogany wood. Of rectangular form, the vitrine with oak leaf cresting, above a conforming frieze centred with a bow and quiver...