Louis XVI-Style Ormolu Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat

a Louis XIV-style side table of fruitwood with inlaid top, sides, and legs, ormolu trim around top, on legs and feet, single long drawer at one end, remarkable surviving Town & Emanuel paper label on drawer bottom, England, 1830-1849 LONDON 105 NEW BOND STt. Bo. of Town & Emanuel Manufacturers OF BUHL MARQUETRIE, RESNER & CARVED FURNITURE, TRIPODS, SCREENS &c. OF THE FINEST & MOST SUPURB DESIGNS OF THE TIMES OF LOUIS 14TH. SPLENDID CABINETS & TABLES INLAID WITH FINE SEVRE & DRESDEN CHINA &c. BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY Old paintings, Bronzes, Carvings, Oriental & Other China, Jewelry & Curiosities, Bought & Exchanged, Buhl & Antique Furniture Repaired...

a beautiful Louis XV French giltwood console table with marble top. Heavily carved and pierced front apron. Two carved front legs curving into a carved shell motif. The top is the or...

a handsome "neat and plain" George III Chippendale-style Gentleman's library writing table with adjustable writing slope / book stand, mahogany with leather work surface, gilt emboss...

William IV mahogany stretcher based library table with black leather top / surface, top height is adjustable with crank on side, lions paw feet, '' Hodges Dublin " stenciled in both...

Elegant Louis XVI style ormolu mounted mahogany desk or bureau plat, circa 1950's , attributed to Maison Jansen, rectangular, the gilt tooled leather inset top bordered by a gilded ...

A very fine and large French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu-mounted mahogany and kingwood three-drawer bureau plat attributed to Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). The shaped rectangular top enclosing a gilt tooled brown leather writing surface within a molded border above a long central drawer enclosing a fine modeled mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt centered by flat cast encadrements and rosewood veneered a quatre faces flanked by two short drawers with reticulated escutcheons of scantly clad frolicking putti and doves over gadrooned "C" scrolls, trellis patterned panels on a stylized shell within similarly framed encadrements raised on elegant cabriole legs surmounted by bearded satyr masks ending in acanthus case hairy paw feet beneath sides centering bacchic masks. Lock mechanism stamped W S M, 6068, a key (lacking skeleton key), and 148. Veuve Paul Sormani Et Fils was the widow of the highly esteemed furniture maker Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). After his death around 1877 she and her son took over the management of the company continuing the tradition of producing fine French furniture of the highest calibre. An escutcheon and several mounts were examined on the reverse, and each was found to have the bronze master model initials "SJ:. Blue chalk inscription on underside Glle 117, Paris, circa 1880. Paul Sormani (1817-1877): Born in Venice, Paul Sormani set up in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. He specialized in creating furniture and works of art and was known for his high quality reproductions of Louis XV and XVI furniture...

Handsome diminutive size French Louis XVI lady's writing table constructed of mahogany and featuring a black leather top with gold Greek key border, foliate bronze ormolu mounts and ...

Contains gilt ornaments and a frieze of putti in heaven on either side. Topped with blind-tooled leather, an inset writing surface. Contains one large drawer that runs the width of ...