19th Century French Louis XVI Style free standing display cabinet.

A good quality late 19th century plum pudding mahogany Louis XVI style vitrine, having a marble top, gilded ormolu mounts, shaped glass panels to the door and sides, three glass shel...

A good quality late 19th century side cabinet, having a white marble top, gilded ormolu scrolling mounts to the frieze, various exotic woods to the parquetry and marquetry inlay, a S...

A fine quality 19th century French Louis XVI style satinwood marquetry inlaid secretaire cabinet, with wonderful inlaid decoration to the fall front, opening to reveal a fitted inter...

A very good quality late 19th century French mahogany free standing oval vitrine, having a gilded ormolu gallery to the top and foliate mounts to the pelm...

A fine quality late 19th century, Breccia marble topped side cabinet in the manner of Joseph Zweiner, having wonderful gilded ormolu monopodia mounts to either side, Tulipwood and Ki...

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...

A handsome and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. mahogany and ormolu display cabinet, signed KRIEGER. The cabinet is raised by disc...

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...

Louis XVI style cabinet, France, 1880, mahogany veneer with exquisite bronze mounts. In very good condition. The cabinet will be shipped from G...

A grandly-scaled late 19th century French carved walnut Louis XVI style vitrine, the case with finely hand-carved swags, ribbons and floral details. Two doors retain their original s...

A handsome French mid-19th century Louis XVI style mahogany ebony and giltwood two door cabinet. The cabinet is raised by square tapered legs with square ormolu sabots. The straight ...

19th century French side cabinet or nightstand in Louis XVI Style. Made of hand-carved walnut it has two sliding hiding doors and is ...