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Vitrines For Sale
Henry DASSON (1825-1896) Vitrine signed and dated Henry Dasson
Cie, 1889
By Henry Dasson
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Henry DASSON (1825-1896)
A Vitrine
Acajou with patinated bronze upper section,
signed and dated Henry Dasson & Cie, 1889 to the right-hand side molded border, the carcasses stamped ...
Category
19th Century Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Boulle Style Display Cabinet, Rounded and Inlaid, Early 1900s, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Vintage display cabinet, Boulle style, sculpted with rounded shape, complete with glass riser and base with closed doors, richly inlaid, predominance of bl...
Category
20th Century Italian Vitrines
Materials
Wood
$3,625 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Deco Period Aluminum Sideboard Forming Showcase
Located in Paris, FR
Aluminum sideboard opening with a door on the right and two drawers surmounted by a showcase with two sliding windows on the left.
It is made of b...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Vitrines
Materials
Aluminum
Italian 19th Century Venetian St. Giltwood Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and large scale Italian 19th century Venetian st. giltwood cabinet vitrine. The most impressive and uniquely shallow vitrine is raised by a bombée and scalloped shaped bas...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Wood, Giltwood
20th Century Louis XV Style Piano-Black Corner Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
Petite French vitrine in the style of Louis XV Rococo
Piano black polished veneer on solid beech. High-rise, one-armed, cambered body, three-sided to three-section, on high slanting...
Category
20th Century Louis XV Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
20th Century the Style of Frederick the Great Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
Splendid vitrine in the style of Frederick the great.
Solid beechwood, finely carved, gilded and hand-painted. Cambered and three -sided glazed bo...
Category
20th Century French Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Wood, Beech
Exceptional Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Vitrine
The marble top above ormolu frieze and scro...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Empire Style French Mahogany Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
High-quality Cuba mahogany on solid softwood. Architecturally articulated body. Two-door, bent frame box on pressed, carved, poliementvergolddete claw feet. Recessed tower with two t...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood, Mahogany, Softwood
French Kingwood 19th Century Display Cabinet
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XV Style Vitrine with Vernis Martin Panels by François Linke, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bombé Vitrine With Vernis Martin Panels, by François Linke.
French, Circa 1900.
Signed 'F. Linke' to one bronze mount.
The reverse ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Kingwood
Ormolu Cabinet Vitrines
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most elegantly pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Kingwood, Tulipwood and ormolu cabinet vitrines. Each two door vitrine is raised by fine block feet with delic...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Enigma Glass Vitrine Display Cabinet by Rikke Frost for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
An elegant glass display cabinet with a timeless design and a beautiful combination of metal and glass. Enigma is perfect for displaying and highlighting your most cherished possessi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Slovenian Scandinavian Modern Vitrines
Materials
Steel
Pair Antique French Satinwood Vitrines
Glass Display Cabinets
, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique French satinwood vitrines (glass display cabinets), Circa 1880.
Category
1880s French Antique Vitrines
Materials
Satinwood
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Glass Display Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most unique French 19th century Louis XIV st. ormolu and glass display vitrine. The vitrine is raised by fine scrolled beaded feet joined by an X stretcher. The base displays a most decorative and superbly curved design with scrolled foliate movements centering a lovely reeded bowl...
Category
19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Vitrine or Display Cabinet
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality French 19th century Kingwood vitrine, having ormolu swags and drapes. parquetry inlaid panel to the door and adjustable glass shelves.
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Antique English Victorian Sheraton Revival Rosewood
Parquetry Bijouterie Table
Located in Glasgow, GB
A superb quality English Victorian Sheraton Revival rosewood, parquetry inlaid and brass mounted bijouterie table dating to circa 1880. The circular hinged top with rosewood and sati...
Category
Late 19th Century English Sheraton Antique Vitrines
Materials
Brass
20th Century Empire Etagere/Showcase, Maple
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century Empire Etagere/Showcase, maple
Aristocratic étagère in Royal-Donau style.
Maple root and solid fully moulded carved beechwood. Partial...
Category
20th Century Vitrines
Materials
Brass
Tessellated Horn
Mother of Pearl Lighted Display Cabinet with Doors
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very unique display cabinet.
Features 3 lighted display sections across the top & 2 cupboard doors on the base.
Tessellated Horn, Tessellated Mother-of-Pearl, & Brass Inlay over Woo...
Category
1970s Philippine Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vitrines
Materials
Brass
19th Century Empire Style French Mahogany Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
High-quality Cuba mahogany on solid softwood. Architecturally articulated body. Two-door, bent frame box on pressed, carved, poliementvergolddete claw feet. Recessed tower with two t...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood, Mahogany, Softwood
Napoleon III Period Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Mounted Cabinet by Louis Grade
Located in London, GB
Napoleon III period gilt bronze and porcelain mounted cabinet by Louis Grade
French, circa 1860
Measures: Height 160cm, width 82cm, depth 4...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Kingwood Vitrine Attributed to Grimard
Located in Dallas, TX
A Kingwood vitrine attributed to Maison G. Grimard, a well known French Ebenistes de art in the 19th century. The Ormolu mounted cabinet and frame are mounted with acanthus leaves an...
Category
1890s French Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Louis XVI Classicist Style French Salon Vitrine
Located in Berlin, DE
French salon vitrine in Louis XVI classicist style
Solid beechwood colored hand-painted. Oval one-drawered combered and four-sided glassed body on high, brass-painted four edged leg...
Category
20th Century Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Pair French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Display Cabinets, 19th Century Paul Somani.
By Paul Somani
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Émile Léger
Cie A Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Vitrine Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Léger & Cie
A Louis XVI gilt-bronze mounted mahogany vitrine cabinet
Late 19th century, the shaped rectangular top with a three-quarter gallery abo...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Aluminum Hanging Showcase 1960s Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid Century Modern vintage two-tiered showcase with 7 glass panes and 2 sliding glass doors, 1960s Austria.
A beautiful show case with one sheet of glass to present beautiful collect...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vitrines
Materials
Aluminum
French 19th Century Empire St. Ormolu Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most impressive French 19th century Empire st. ormolu cabinet vitrine. The vitrine is raised by striking paw feet with luxuriant pierced palmette designs. Above the st...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
French Empire Style Ormolu Mounted Mahogany Vitrines / PAIR
Located in Dallas, TX
a handsome pair of Empire-style gilt bronze mounted (ormolu) mahogany marble top vitrines / display cabinets, each with two interior glass shelves, glass on three (3) sides, back and...
Category
19th Century English Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
1950s Wall-Mounted Display Cabinet, Attributed to Ico Parisi
By Ico Parisi
Located in London, England
Very stylish shaped wood cabinet with two interior lights,
Sliding glass doors (glass replaced).
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Paul Sormani, Louis XV Style Vitrine
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality French Kingwood Louis XV style vitrine, having silver plated mounts, serpentine glass to the front and sides, adjustable shelves ...
Category
1880s French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Kingwood
Linke Style Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bijouterie Cabinet, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th century mahogany oval table display cabinet, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts depicting cloven hoofed Bacchus influen...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Burr-Amboyna, Marble, Gilt and Patinated Bronze Cabinet by Maison Krieger
Located in London, GB
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,...
Category
Early 1900s French Empire Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Nouveau Style Vitrine, Spain
Located in Vulpellac, Girona
Art Nouveau style vitrine from Spain with classical carved decorative motifs. Sliding glass doors that open to the large show case which was normally...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Art Nouveau Vitrines
Materials
Wrought Iron
$5,533 Sale Price
20% Off
One of a Kind Custom Made Art Modern Sideboard Doors Opening Upwards Stylish
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very interesting and stylish Art Modern sideboard which has been custom made
A very artist and creative piece, the style is like nothing I have ever seen, its very appealing. The doors all open upwards to reveal large cupboard space, it reminds me of an antique grain bin...
Category
20th Century English Post-Modern Vitrines
Materials
Wood
19th Century Sedan Style Vitrine
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Kingwood
French Art Deco Vitrine by Louis Majorelle
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
French Art Deco vitrine by Louis Majorelle made of Macassar ebony. Center glass door with floral fabric lined interior. Three doors with exterior floral marquetry and interior shelve...
Category
1930s French Vintage Vitrines
$13,680 Sale Price
68% Off
18th Century Louis XVI Bijouterie Vitrine Table Hand Etched Glass Gilt Metal
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this stunning original 18th century Louis XVI Bijouterie Vitrine side table with original silk lining
A truly stunning ...
Category
18th Century English Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Silk, Wood
Marble Top French Ormolu Kingwood Inlaid Marquetry Vitrine Attributed To Linke
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Marble Top French Ormolu Kingwood Inlaid Marquetry Vitrine Attributed To Linke
Dimensions : 55" Wide X 47" Tall X 16" Deep
This gorgeous vitrine was made in the 19th century in Fra...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Signed Linke Vitrine, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century Louis XV style kingwood vitrine, having the original marble top, classical ormolu mounts, bevelled glass, adjustable shelves. A Wedgwood plaque inset to t...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Charming and Unusual Display Table, France, 19th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
This lovely table features a large rectangular display case/ vitrine as the table top, supported by by four barley twist legs with ununsual feet.
The table top surround is carved...
Category
19th Century French Antique Vitrines
Lacquered Crescent Bar, 1990s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Lacquered half-moon bar cabinet with faux crocodile doors bronze handles. The style echoes the French eclecticism of the 1940s and is art deco in flavor but echoes the neoclassical s...
Category
1990s Neoclassical Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Vitrine of Kingwood and Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in London, GB
A fine vitrine in the manner of Francois Linke
Constructed in kingwood, with gilt bronze mounts, in the Louis XVI Transitional style; rising from bronze foliate sabots, with gent...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Null Blue Glass Shelf Clear Transition Color Square by Studio Buzao Customizable
By Buzao
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This standing shelf is made with compound glass in blue color. Size and color are customizable upon request.
Studio Buzao is an experimental design studio. It tempts to breakthro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Vitrines
Materials
Glass
Gilt-Bronze Mounted Burr Amboyna and Mahogany Vitrine Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gilt-bronze mounted burr amboyna and mahogany vitrine cabinet
French, circa 1900
All sides fitted with beveled glass and opening to shelves,
Measures: Height 63.25 in. (160.65 c...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Antique French Gold Bronze Mounted Mahogany Vitrine, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French gold bronze mounted Mahogany Vitrine, Circa 1880.
Category
19th Century French Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Flamed Mahogany Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A magnificent French 19th century Louis XVI st. flamed mahogany, patinated bronze and ormolu vitrine cabinet. The cabinet is raised on ormolu ball feet with an ebony bottom border. T...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Maison Thuillier Paris, Pair of Planters/Vitrines Period Napoleon III, XIXth
Located in Beaune, FR
Exceptional pair of planters also serving as vitrines. Napoleon III period but dating from the 19th century. These planters are UNIQUE pieces because they are part of a special order...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
A Fine
Rare Pair of George III Painted Diminuitive Cabinets on Stands
Located in Sheffield, MA
Each with a molded cornice above a pair of diamond mullioned glazed doors opening to a shelf, over two a pair of drawers, raised on square legs headed by pierced brackets, painted wi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Vitrines
Materials
Wood
Italian 19th Century Venetian St. Giltwood Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and large scale Italian 19th century Venetian st. giltwood cabinet vitrine. The most impressive and uniquely shallow vitrine is raised by a bombée and scalloped shaped bas...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
Neo Renaissance Vitrine
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
A Neo Renaissance Vitrine manufactured within the southeast of old Austro-Hungarian monarch, Baron Bethelen Castle. Private estate Beclean-Romania. R...
Category
19th Century Antique Vitrines
$7,200 Sale Price
56% Off
French 19th Century Napoleon III Tulipwood and Ormolu Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and extremely high quality French 19th century Napoleon III period Kingwood, Tulipwood, and ormolu cabinet vitrine. The two door, one drawer vitrine is raised by elegant...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Empire Bookcase
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Empire bookcase – walnut, rootwood and ebonized wood and columns with brass hardware. Glazed doors with interior shelves above single exterior drawer.
Category
19th Century Antique Vitrines
$10,800 Sale Price
58% Off
French Early 19th Century Louis XVI St. Sèvres Porcelain Cabinet Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and high quality French early 19th century Louis XVI st. Kingwood, Tulipwood, Charmwood, ormolu and Sèvres porcelain cabinet vitrin...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ebony Cabinet Vitrines
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant and extremely decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Napoleon III period, ebony, bone, giltwood, ormolu and glass cabinet vitrines. Each striking vitrine is raised by charming bun feet. Leading up each side are striking square and circular columns with ormolu foliate plinths and capitals, fine inlaid bone fillets and beautiful giltwood flutes. The door retains its original glass pane and is framed within a lovely beaded ormolu band. The ebony frame has fine inlaid bone fillets and intricately carved giltwood rosettes, which is repeated at each side of the cabinet. Inside are three upholstered shelves...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Lacquer Vitrine Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fine Late 19th Century Transitional Style Gilt Bronze and Lacquer Vitrine Cabinet
The large gilt bronze and all glass single door vitrine above a fine two door lacquered cabinet ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Very Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Pedestal
Located in Long Island City, NY
A very interesting late 19th century gilt bronze mounted transitional style vitrine pedestal
The square rouge marble top above a frieze, a single central door opens to a red velve...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
21st Century Portland Showcase in Wood
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
Portland is a delicate and refined line of furnishings, characterized by decorations that recall the world of Wedgwood ceramics. The ornaments with a classic charm are further enhanc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vitrines
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
$44,506 / item
French 19th Century Vitrine Display Cabinet Showcase by Conquet
By H. Conquet
Located in New York, NY
A French 19th Century Vitrine display cabinet showcase by Conquet
Marquetry inlaid bronze mounted bois de vilotette cabinet in the Louis ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Wonderful 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Table by Joseph Zwiener
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful late 19th century gilt bronze Mounted Louis XV style Vitrine table by Joseph Zwiener
Joseph Zwiener
The oval shaped table with a beveled glass top encircled by a bronze frieze, above four side glass panels, the canted angles set with pierced foliate-cast clasps, standing on cabriole legs tapering to scrolled sabots.
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, modeling 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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Coromandel Inlaid Vitrine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Highly-prized coromandel, or East Indian ebony, was used to create this beautiful Victorian vitrine. Featuring delicate inlay in the Victorian/Edwardian style and glass panels framed in the equally luxurious satinwood, this cabinet is constructed to fit flush against a wall with baseboards. Elegant cabinets such as this are perfect for displaying one's treasures, but with original locks, keys, mirrors and fleur-de-lis fabric, this case is a prized possession unto itself,
circa 1890.
Measures: 30" wide x 14 ½" deep x 41 ½" high.
Coromandel ebony is variegated brown and black, often called "streaky," wood. It is considered a highly valuable wood for turnery, fine cabinet...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Ebony, Satinwood
A Fantastic Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine By Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Vitrine By Paul Sormani
Paul Sormani
Bronze gallery above a centered glass door, flanked by glass panels, four bronze mount...
Category
19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Vitrines
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique and Vintage Vitrines
Why not give your precious collectibles the case pieces they deserve? Antique and vintage vitrines can be used to safely store and display your most treasured objects.
While they were initially used to display relics in churches or to preserve specimens for scientific observation, vitrines are best known for their place in retail spaces and museums. The name for these glass display cases comes from the Latin word “vitrum,” meaning glass, as well as the Old French word “vitre,” which also refers to glass. Instead of simply showcasing collector’s items on shelves, you can bestow extra importance on them by displaying them in a vitrine for passers-by to observe and admire.
Not all vitrines are created equal. Over time, furniture makers have explored different shapes and sizes for vitrines. A display case you’ll find in a retail store will likely look drastically different from what you’ll see in a museum or art gallery. A vitrine in a shop is likely there to best market specific wares to the general public, while in museums there is usually a range of different vitrines intended to house and protect single objects or to display a grouping of artifacts.
Most of us have an antique, new or vintage case piece in our home. Though the terms “case pieces” and “case goods” may cause even the most decor-obsessed to stumble, these furnishings have been a vital part of the home for centuries. Any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — cabinets, dressers, buffets — may be properly termed a case piece.
Mirror-backed vitrines, which refer to cases that usually feature shelved and mirrored interiors, are a most appropriate home for your jewelry or decorative objects. Adding such items to a vitrine already suggests that there is an irreplaceable preciousness to the case’s contents, and the mirrors will emphasize as much as well as refract more light to render the display eye-catching.
On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of antique and vintage vitrines to protect and preserve your most prized items. The collection of mid-century modern vitrines and Art Deco vitrines is mostly inclusive of those built with a wooden frame, but there are many other types to choose from as well. It’s time to give your collectibles a good home!
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