Early 1900s Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

A fine antique English Edwardian mahogany handmade tabletop book trough or book rack with satinwood inlay, circa 1900. It would make a handsome addition to a desktop or study and wou...

A Fine and Rare French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze-Mounted Mahogany and Satiné Parquetry Vitrine Commode-Server, attributed to Maison Forest. The rectangular body s...

This is a great Antique Serving Table with a small Sideboard (Model #8610) from Stickley Brothers from 1902. The original color in this item is fantastic! They used a superb quality of quarter sawn oak. The workmanship is as good as the work of Gustav Stickley. They used hammered copper or brass (as in this piece) on works like this, as you can see in the photos. Also, there are two (2) early Stickley...

Art Nouveau period oak dresser, Belgium, circa 1900 In the style of Gustave Serrurier Bovy.  

Edwardian Fry’s Counter Top Shop Display Cabinet This Sweet Shop Cabinet has advertising banners for Fry’s painted across the top and bottom at the front, this is in the original Gr...

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...

A rare Italian 19th-20th century polychrome painted and floral decorated carved wood console and mirror, the serpentine bombé form console decorated with parcel-gilt and colorful flo...

A Country French 19th/20th Century Louis XV Provençal Style Carved Walnut Vanity Dressing Table with Drawers. The large commode cabinet wi...

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...

Typical Tuscan showcase, rustic Italian, in fir, consisting of base and riser. Honey color. In ancient times the piece of furniture had been painted green and about 30 years ago it w...

Rare and primitive Sumatran Two Drawer Bird Cabinet. Bird Carvings on all Four Sides. Teak and Bamboo. 1900. Indonesian.

Antique French metamorphic baker’s table/ shelf. Table H 33” W 57.5” D 32.75”base 40.5”. Each panel 11.25” by 31.5”

An English faux marble chest of drawers, with four oak lined drawers and brass handles.

Wonderful wooden typographic chest of drawers with original label "La Xilografica Badia Polesine Fabbrica Caratteri Mobili Tipografici Legno" of the early '900. The typographic ches...

Rare large pair of early XXth century wooden vitrines. Perfect to display collections (jewels, coins, drawings etc..) or menus for a restaurant? Very decorative and rare!

Historical chest of drawers from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dimensions: height 122 cm / width 102 cm / depth 56 cm.

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...

Antique tiger bamboo pedestal side table with rice mat top with flip open lid storage and a secondary bottom shelf. Restored to new for you. All ...

Edwardian Inlaid Corner Cupboard A Very attractive Corner Cupboard the door of the cabinet has 8 Bevelled Mirror panels around a central inla...

Edwardian Astral Glazed Display Cabinet/Book Case This is a very attractive piece, it has 2 astral glazed doors with 3 adjustable shelves inside, it stands on small bracket feet The...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very fine fully, Antique circa 1900, Burr Walnut twin pedestal partner desk with hand dyed brown leather top. It’s been lightly restored to...

A very large mahogany centrepiece partners’ desk in the Chippendale style, attributed to Maples or Gillows, of oval form with a replaced green leather top, the frieze with six small ...

A fine and rare English 19th-20th century Chippendale style carved oak and parcel-gilt console vitrine. The narrow upper two-door vitrine crowned with a carved parcel-gilt peacock fe...

Meuble de métier de médecin en chêne massif 1900's

A fine and large Italian early 20th century gildwood carved and gilt-brass mounted server buffet with marble top. The rectangular fruit wood body with four front doors ornately carve...

Early 19th Century French Cherry Wood Cupboard Dresser This cupboard measures: 62.25 wide x 20.75 deep x 40.25 inches high We take our photos in a controlled lighting studio to sho...

This beautifully restored rattan blends style and vintage charm with modern comfort. Made in 1950, this antique circa 1900's four-level tiger bamboo wall shelf with handwoven rice ma...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely circa 1900 mahogany drop front bureau in the Thomas Chippendale style made and stamped by Arnold Bros A good looking and well-made p...

A fine French, 19th-20th century Louis XV style mahogany and gilt bronze-mounted Vitrine by Haentges Freres. The single door cabinet surmounted with or...

Stool in patinated solid pine. Designed by MAA. Martin Nyrop as interior for Copenhagen town hall in 1905. Made in Denmark by Cabinetmaker Rud Rasmussen cabinetmakers. Great original...

A superb quality early 20th century mahogany cabinet in the Chinese Chippendale manor by Edwards & Roberts, the top of the cabinet has a broken arch pediment with dentil mouldings an...

Wonderful Antique French buffet/hutch made of solid oak wood with marble top. The base has two drawers and three doors with a single shelf inside. The drawers have brass handles and ...

Imitation palisander Made in Czechoslovakia Made of wood, glass Original condition.

Georgian style figured oak shaped sideboard Circa 1900 The sideboard is raised upon 8 elegant tapered legs with ebony line inlay detail The sideboard features 5 oak lined drawer with...

Sheraton Revival bow fronted library bookcase. Circa 1900 The bookcase stands upon bracket feet Will ship to anywhere in the world including US - please get in touch for a shipping q...

Square top with circular inlaid centre. 4 inlaid Fans to each corner Revolving top with 4 open sections to hold books Slatted Mahogany sides. Shaped 2 tier base with single drawer at...

Mahogany Sheraton Revival glazed bookcase. Circa 1900 This bookcase stands upon a plinth base. The bookcase features 2 glazed doors which open to reveal 3 adjustable shelves. The top...

Combining a homey design with a romantic patina, this vintage wooden cabinet epitomizes the charm of French country style. Built in rural France at the turn of the century, the spacious upper and lower cupboards are separated by an alcove which serves as an open workspace. The curved shaped of the supporting brackets add a graceful structural note. The cupboard doors slide open on tracks; round wooden...

Arts and Crafts Music Filing Cabinet A good looking piece in the Arts and Crafts style, the cabinet has 5 drawers , the front half of these fold down for easy access of sheet music,...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning circa 1900 burr walnut and mahogany revolving bookcase with Sheraton inlay to the top An exceptionally well made and highly decorative library bookcase. This is a very versatile piece of furniture that would look amazing in any setting We have cleaned waxed and polished the piece, it has some normal age and use related patina marks here and there, nothing you wouldn't expect from 120+ year old bookcase...

Superb trading counter from the 1900s in oak and pine. Its top has a very pretty veining. All of the finishes on this counter are quite rare and make i...

Vitrin, France, ca. 1900. Very good condition. Wood: walnut Dimensions: height 260 cm / width 120 cm / depth 60 cm

Wonderful bureau from the 1900s. High-quality solid oak wood corpus with a tambour door, eight drawers, four interior drawers and numerous compartments. Quality Features: very good...

French Louis XVI Style Demilune Mahogany Vitrine / Showcase Cabinet Maison Jansen/ Louis XVI style chest or étagère. The nice bowed white marble top with a three-quarter pierced bra...

Rare and original piece 20th century French walnut "Billet doux". Used to write letters behind the fabric wall to be hidden. Louis XV style. The first dra...

Can't you picture this cabinet with storage bins in a small general store? There are four deep bins, which are covered by an arched lid that lifts...

French Adjustable Clerks Desk Restaurant Station Greeter A very neat Front of House Reception Greeter, the Péret table, known as the "hygienic" table, made of moulded natural wood, ...

A set of three painted Swedish cupboards, comprising a larger cupboard with drawer and two floor standing corner cupboards, each with a shelf...

Furniture for havana cigars, puros, attributed to Koloman Moser and Wiener Werkstatte. Material: wood Style: Vienna Secession Country: Vienna If you hav...

Restaurant Clerks Desk Greeting Station, Greeter A very neat Front of House Reception Greeter, the greeting desk has a sloping lift up storage compartme...

This pair of shop display cabinets were made from pine with faux oak paint The cabinets have glass on all sides and a door with a brass knob on the back.

Very useful pine Roll Top Storage Cabinet with original, scumbled paint. Inside are 2 seperated compartments, used previously for fire kindlin...

Fantastic vintage wooden grocery counter, from around 1900s South of France and painted white, with lovely patina. The counter is a good solid handmade...

Antique Venetian Hand-Painted Buffet/Commode is the perfect choice for adding a refined neutral color and elegant neoclassical flair, while adding a functional surface and storage. ...

Italian Art Nouveau wooden bookshelf with three shelves, early 1900s Wooden bookcase or etagere. The structure is composed of three shelves, all the elements of the shelf have curve...

This high quality linen cabinet was made by lambs of manchester. Standing upon ogee bracket feet. The bottom of the cabinet having 3 oak lined graduated drawers which retain their de...

Italian Belle Époque antique Wooden chest of drawers, 1900s Chest of drawers with rectangular base in dark wood. The cabinet has 16 dra...

Exceptional Quality Louis XV Style Bookcase in Kingwood and Mahogany parquetry, with thick 1-3/4″ marble top. With original ormolu mounts and hardware, this is a truly fine and rare ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely circa 1900 Burr & Burl Walnut drop front bureau A good looking and well-made piece, you don't come across many in Burr walnut, it i...

Arts and Crafts Panelled Oak Coffer This is a lovely piece, with a good patina, the chest has two panels on the front, these have a geometric ...