Wonderful 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Palace Size Cabinet

A Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Lacquer Cabinet Marble top above a bronze mounted drawer, with a double door with lacquered landscape scenes that opens fo...

A wonderful late 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted vitrine by Joseph Zwiener. Joseph Zwiener The serpentine-shaped brèche d’ alep marble top above a single centered glass door, flanked to each side by a conforming panel, the mirrored interior fitted with three adjustable glass shelves, the canted angles set with pierced foliate-cast clasps, above a bombé shaped apron, on cabriole legs with scrolled-acanthus sabots. The quality of the cabinetry and solid wood frame, along with the quality and design of the mounts, is characteristic of Zwiener’s oeuvre. Similar flower-filled cornucopia chutes can be found on other Zwiener models. Born in Herdon, Germany, in 1849, Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener followed the tradition of some of the best ébnistes of the nineteenth century. He moved to Paris establishing a workshop at 12, rue de la Roquette, between 1880 and 1895. He produced a wide array of the very finest furniture, modelling in his own interpretations of the eighteenth century Louis XV Rococo style, veneered with the highest and finest quality marquetry and ‘Vernis Martin’ panels. Exhibiting at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, in 1889, Zwiener was awarded a gold medal for what the jury reported as ‘dè ses dèbuts à une Exposition Universelle, [il] s’est mi au premier rang par la richesse, la hardinesse, et le fini de ses meubles incrustés de bronze et fort habilment marquetés.’ Zwiener was closely associated with François Linke, and the two houses produced work which, at first glance, is remarkably similar and with occasionally identical mounts. The similarities are made more likely by the fact that the brilliant sculptor, Léon Messagé, worked initially for Zwiener and subsequently, upon Zwiener’s departure for Berlin to work on furniture commissioned by Freidrich Wilhelm II , he was employed in the workshop of François Linke. It appears that Zwiener, unlike Linke, did not sign all his work, although some stamped pieces with his name and/or his “Z” initial are documented. There is some uncertainty between the recorded stamp E. Zwiener and the work of a Julius Zwiener...

A beautiful late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze and Sèvres style porcelain mounted parquetry cabinet. A marble top above a single door adorned with Sèvres style porcelain plaques, the large plaque...

A Nice Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Transitional Style Parquetry Cabinet Marble top above two doors. each door centered by a Bacchus mask within sunburst veneer, the corner...

An exceptional French side cabinet from the late 19th century. Likely Parisian in origin, elegantly refined, finished in the luxurious and sophisticated Louis XV taste, presenting with the striking original decoratively shaped variegated specimen marble top with molded edge, atop the gravefully curvacious bombe form case, adorned with intricate geometric diamond parquetry, hand-crafted, of fine quality, craftsmanship and rich detailing throughout, the solid wooden chest fitted with two dovetailed drawers over a spacious single large cabinet door, all open to reveal luxurious rich mahogany finished interior, decorated with finely gilded chiseled and sculpted bronze ormolu fiolate motif mounts, original pull fittings, gilt brass running ornamentation accents the scalloped apron, flowing elegantly down the short cabriole legs, terminating in elaborate bronze sabots. As warm and attractive as it is useful, having the ideal proportions for a variety of different uses, including as a hall console, dry bar cart - liquor cabinet, side table, accent table, sideboard server, linen or towel storage...

A fine French 19th-20th century Louis XV Style gilt bronze-mounted, Mahogany and Tulipwood Marquetry Side Cabinet/Secretaire in the style of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender s...

A French 19th-20th century Louis XV style tulipwood parquetry and mahogany gilt-bronze mounted three-door Meuble d' Appui (Side cabinet) with marble top, Paris, circa 1900. Measur...

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...