Kingwood Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

This gorgeous French Louis XV chest of drawers dates back to around 1770. It was made during the so called Transition period, the time between Louis XV and Louis XVI. It already shows the plain and stricter design of the Louis XVI period, but has still some playful marquetry decor details which draw from the more pompous Louis XV style. The three drawers commode stands on four cabriole legs with bronze sabots. Between the first and the second drawer is a decorated bronze band. This beautiful chest of drawers has its original wooden top with its veneer decor matching the decor of the front and sides. The Transition commode has been expertly refinished in our workshop. The price includes costs for the exquisite restoration and the international shipping from Europe...

18th Century French kingwood bureau de dame. With gilt bronze decorative mounts.

Exquisite Louis XVI Chest of Drawers – France, 1780s A remarkable example of 18th-century French Neoclassical furniture, this Louis XVI chest of drawers dates to the 1780s and featur...

French Louis XV style (circa 1880) transitional style gilt bronze mounted kingwood & satinwood 3 drawer commode with floral inlaid design and a fleur de peche...

Louis XV Style Gilt Metal Mounted Kingwood Parquetry Marble Top Bombe Commode, 20th century, the molded pink and grey serpentine marble top above two drawers, on cabriole legs and sa...

This rare period 1800s Italian commode is an exceptional example of neoclassical craftsmanship, combining rich Circassian walnut and striking kingwood veneers with a finely fitted ma...

Fabulous quality late 19th century small open bookcase from the Napoleon III period circa 1870’s Veneered with kingwood , original marble top and ormolu mounts H: 99 cm (39") W: 80 c...

A very fine example of French 19th century Louis XV style Bombe two drawer chest commode. The oak carcass is veneered in kingwood and amaranth and inlaid with floral designs on the f...

A fine 19th century French Louis XVI knigwood and marquetry viewing cabinet with fine gilt bronze mounts . Exotic woods used for marquetry urn design. ...

French Louis XV style (19/20th Century) kingwood veneer and bronze trimmed commode with 2 drawers and inlaid with floral marquetry and marble top.

A very fine pair of early 20th Century richly patinated mahogany and kingwood bedside chests of exceptional quality and neat proportions. This stunning pair are beautifully carved, ...

A fine pair of French 19th century Louis XV style tulipwood and gilt bronze mounted two-Door Meuble D'Appui (Side-Cabinets) with a Brêche d'Alep marble top. The slender cabinets...

This very fine formal transitional commode is of the period circa 1770 is crafted from oak secondary woods with tulipwood, kingwood and satinwood veneers. The break front form is enl...

French Louis XV Style Italian Bronze Figural Ormolu Brown Leather Top Desk Bureau Plat. Item features ornate bronze figural ormolu, finished back with bronze face and parquetry inlay...

Pair of 19th Century French marble topped small commodes or large pair of bedside cabinets. With original marble tops and ormolu mounts and ;working locks and keys. Circa 1880.

Very fine late Georgian inlaid mahogany and bronze mounted chiffonier, having three tier waterfall bookshelf top supported by bronze columns, over ...

This exceptional French Louis XV secretary, crafted around 1770, is a stunning example of 18th-century craftsmanship. Featuring breathtaking ...

A very fine French Louis XV style ormolu and jasperware-mounted mahogany single door vitrine, attributed to François Linke (1855-1946). The two upper front corners surmounted with or...

Exceptional display cabinet with center opening door to fitted interior with three glass shelves that are moveable. It has a mirror back and mirror on the bottom. Two doors open on e...

Superb bookcase with central projection in mahogany and rosewood marquetry, opening three doors including a large one in the center presenting a magnificent marquetry decoration comp...

An early nineteenth century mahogany and kingwood parquetry commode, with grey marble top and with three drawers retaining the original handles and escutcheons, all supported on brac...

Antique French Gold Bronze Mounted Kingwood Display Cabinet, Circa 1860-1870. Exceptional Quality Bronze

Small Rococo style chest of drawers or nightstand, France 19th century. This beautiful small dresser has a gorgeous kingwood veneer and is decorated with Rococo Style bronze fittings...

Late 19th Century French, Louis XV style, serpentine fronted, two drawer commode. Made in kingwood with original bronze mounts. Circa 1900.

An exquisite Louis XV/Louis XVI Transitional style vitrine by the renowned French cabinetmaker François Linke from the late 19th century. Crafted in kingwood and mahogany, this fine ...

A fine French 19th-20th century kingwood and tulipwood marquetry and gilt-bronze mounted vitrine, in the manner of François Linke (1855-1946). The slender single door display cabinet with a red-velvet backing and bowed glass panels surmounted with acanthus and floral gilt-bronze mounts in the style of Léon Messagé (French, 1842-1901), the serpentine shaped front door with an ornate marquetry and ink colored panel depicting wreaths, ribbons and tied acantus leaves, all raised on four cabriolet legs ending with gilt-bronze paw-feet, Paris, circa 1900. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinet maker, Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873. He subsequently travelled to Prague, Budapest & Weimar before finally arriving in Paris in 1875. It is documented that he obtained employment with an unknown German cabinetmaker in Paris, and stylistic similarities, photographs and geographical proximity have led some to suggest that Emmanuel Zwiener was the most likely candidate. After a period back in his home town of Pankratz, he returned once and for all to Paris in 1877. In 1878 Paris hosted the third great International Exhibition, a remarkable success for a country ravaged by war only seven years earlier. It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger. By 1889 another World’s Fair, as they were often referred to in America, took place in Paris. Monsieur Eiffel erected what has become the most iconic building in Paris for the exhibition and the atmosphere of wealth and confidence may well have encouraged Linke to think that he could contribute an important part to the next great exhibition. As early as 1892 this was decreed to take place at the end of the century, in an attempt to pre-empt Berlin from staging the last great show of the century. In 1892, Victor Champier (fr) one of the commissioners for the 1900 Paris Fair had appealed, “Create in the manner of the masters, do not copy what they have made”. It was an appeal against mere reproduction and Linke rose to this challenge in an unparalleled way with his unique display that was to include the Grand Bureau. Determined to outshine the competition at the Exhibition, Linke had set about creating the most ambitious pieces he could envisage, and more extravagant than had ever been displayed before. The items he exhibited marked a transition from the historicist interpretation of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, an interpretation that was the mainstay of his nearest rivals, to something startlingly new and vital in its immediacy. [6] Together with Léon Messagé he developed a new style for the 1900 Exhibition that paid homage to the Louis XV rococo in the fluidity of its approach, but an approach fused with the lively flowing lines of the contemporary and progressive 'art nouveau'. The Art Journal reported in 1900 on Linke's stand: "The work of M. Linke ... was an example of what can be done by seeking inspiration amongst the classic examples of Louis XV and XVI without in any great sense copying these great works. M. Linke's work was original in the true sense of the word, and as such commended itself to the intelligent seeker after the really artistic things of the Exhibition. Wonderful talent was employed in producing the magnificent pieces of furniture displayed". Linke's stand would have appeared refreshingly new to contemporary onlookers, the traditional designs of the eighteenth century melting seamlessly into an exuberant naturalism. The 'Revue' described Linke's style as 'entièrement nouveaux' and noted "This opinion is universally accepted. Linke's stand is the biggest show in the history of art furniture in the year 1900". It is perhaps the most extraordinary and remarkable aspect of Linke’s personal history that he produced such expensive and luxurious furniture of exquisite quality for the 1900 exhibition without any commission or any potential buyer in mind. [9] At a time when other more established furniture businesses such as those of Beurdeley and Dasson were closing down, he made a huge investment in his stand and the furniture he supplied for it. Linke recognised that to move his business forward he needed to appeal to a more International clientele and the new emerging rich who were at this time amassing fortunes on an unprecedented scale. For this reason he gambled everything he had on his display for the 1900 exhibition. Had this not succeeded he would almost certainly have succumbed to bankruptcy. Linke’s notebook records visitors to his stand from England, Europe, the Americas, Egypt and Japan and including; the King of Sweden, three visits from the King of Belgium, Prince Radziwill, the Prince d’Arenberg, the Comte Alberic du Chastel, Miss Anna May Gould, the American heiress, distinguished furniture makers and the President of France Emile Loubet. This risky endeavour was a resounding success, and with his reputation established, La Maison Linke became the pre-eminent furniture house until outset of the Second World War. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented was never to be repeated. His showrooms expanded into prestigious premises in Paris, in the Place Vendôme as well as the Faubourg St. Antoine where his workshop had been established. He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers. After the 1914-1918 World War, Linke undertook the extraordinary commission to furnish the Ras al-Tin Palace in Alexandria for King Fuad of Egypt, possibly the largest single furniture commission ever conceived, eclipsing even Versailles. Linke flourished and remained active until the middle years of the 1930s and died in 1946 Léon Messagé (1842-1901) was a French sculptor, best known for his sculptural collaboration with François Linke for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Messagé was also responsible for much of the design and creative work for Roux et Brunet...

This spectacular five door French Art Deco credenza has silver plaques on each door with a deer motif. The center door opens to reveal draws inside. While the other doors reveal shelfs for plenty of storage. The two tone buffet...

Gorgeous parquetry top 18th century French commode with brass inlaid fluted corners and ormolu bronze hardware.

Stamped Stumpff and Ohneberg. The shaped, eared breccia marble top above two drawers with satinwood geometrical frieze and three panels inlaid sans traverse with musical trophies, above a shaped apron with a lion-mask mount, flanked by canted corners, the sides inlaid with a vase, on cabriole legs and scroll feet, stamped once 'J.STUMPFF' and 'JME' and once 'M. OHNEBERG'. Jean Chrysostome Stumpff, maître in 1766. Martin Ohneberg...

Antique French Louis XVI Kingwood and Bronze D'Oré Vitrine with Beveled Glass, Circa 1890.

A fabulous quality 20th Century French Louis XV style bombe commode. Made in Kingwood, having three drawers with original handles and ormolu mounts. Topped with a lovely triple cut ...

Exquisite secretaire de dame, France 18th century, beautiful kingwood veneer on front, sides, top, back and the inside. The writing surface is covered with leather. With original bro...

19th Century Kingwood and marble top credenza, the stepped top having the original shaped white marble with decorative engraved ormolu moulding below, the credenza consisting of a la...

A fine French 19th century serpentine inlaid display or storage cabinet of neat proportions, cross banded and ormolu mounted throughout and with lovely patinated timbers comprising o...

An 18th century Italian, Neoclassical commode from the area of Lombardy, possibly Milan. Decorated with pinwheel marquetry and floral inlay. Inlays of walnut, kingwood, rosewood a...

This unique Louis XVI Roll Top Desk was made in France around 1780. The outside of the secretary desk has a kingwood veneer with a gorgeous mar...

A fine French 19th century Regency transition style kingwood and tulipwood parquetry and ormolu-mounted two-drawer commode with marble top, Paris, circa 1890. Measures: Height 34 1/...

A very fine 19th century Louis XVI marquetry inlay secretaire A Abattant by Charles Diehl. Kingwood, satinwood and tulipwood inlay with fine gilt bronze ...

marquetry work in kingwood and walnut, having three drawers Inside two doors. A beautiful cameo with bronze doré figure of woman And an angel decorate the center front of the cabinet...

A very fine 19th Century pair of marble top kingwood chests of grand proportions, fabulously hand carved and ormolu mounted throughout with gorgeously rich patination and grain. The ...

French Louis XV style (19th Century) kingwood and bronze trimmed kneehole desk with green leather top.

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

The best quality of construction. With rectangular breakfront form top with wonderfully figured kingwood with a cast bronze edge. Over a pair of pleated silk lined beveled glass door...

A good quality late 19th century marquetry inlaid kingwood commode, having its original marble-top, two large drawers, ormolu mounts and handles and raised on out swept legs.

A George III period figured mahogany bow-fronted tallboy of attractive small proportions, having moulded and kingwood crossbanded cornice above seven cock beaded drawers supported on...

An elegant French 19th century Louis XV St. tulipwood and kingwood ladies writing desk. The desk is raised by four slender cabriole legs with fine wrap-around ormolu sabots, kingwood...

With serpentine With serpentine Breche De Alep marble top over a conforming case with two drawers with bronze handles and escutcheons. Raised on cabriole legs ending on sabot. Prove...

Exquisite 19th century French Louis XV style bronze-mounted commode with marble top. Signed JVHD on bronze mounts. The serpentine-fronted mottled Breche d'Alep marble top is over two...

Louis XV dresser, France 1770. This unique dresser was made in the period between Louis XV and Louis XVI. It still has the graceful curves and the richly decorated bronze fittings...

A Stunning Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Hand-cut Floral Marquetry Cabinet By François Linke François Linke Brèche d’Alep serpentine fronted marble top, abov...

With a thick serpentine breche de alep marble top over a conforming case with two conforming drawers with bronze handles raised on cabriole legs with sabot feet. From a Bellevue Avenue Newport Rhode Island estate.

A stunning Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted commode crafted in kingwood, tulipwood, and bois de bout marquetry from the late 19th century. This exquisite piece showcases the elegan...

Exceptional French cabinet with floral and foliate marquetry inlay with gilt bronze mounts. two doors open at the front and interior has one shelf. Sides are shaped and floral mar...

A very fine 19th century French Louis XV kingwood and parquetry designed viewing cabinet. Lined with a gold silk . Fine gilt bronze mounts. Stamped Haentges Freres Paris

Antique French Louis XV Style Heavily Detailed Inlay Kingswood & Mahogany with Brass Ormolu Mounted Blue Leather Topped 3 Drawer Writing Desk A stunning piece that combines exquisit...

A stunning French 19th century Louis XV St. Four-drawer kingwood, tulipwood and ormolu commode. The bombe shaped commode is raised on short cabriole legs decorated by ormolu masculin...

Cool French bureau plat or desk in the Empire manner Elegant piece with cabriole legs and crafted from kingwood Original ormolu fittings and top is finished in tooled leather Bought ...

This Sormani bookshelf is made of kingwood and bois satine with a brèche d'Alep marble top. The center panel holds an open shelf with adjustable shelf and a section with sliding tamb...

A fine quality late 19th Century French Kingwood, ormolu mounted side cabinet on stand, having the original marble top with a three quarter pierced brass gallery. A pair of wonderful...

A very fine late 19th century French Louis XVI kingwood parquetry inlayed bookcase cabinet . Fine gilt bronze mounts and detail . Original Breche Violette marble top.