Mahogany and Gilt Bronze First Empire Commode

A French Napoleon III, Empire Revival four drawer commode in pickled mahogany. With good bronze handles and variegated grey marble top.

A French mahogany, three drawer Directoire commode, with brass mounts and inlay and a shaped variegated pale grey marble top.

A pickled 18th century French Louis XV walnut commode, with serpentine front and five drawers. The original handles in bronze. Pickling was a popular trend in the 1920s-1930s.

An XVIII Century French Louis XV walnut commode, with a serpentine front and five drawers. The original handles in gilt bronze, carefully restored with a great patina.

A large Austrian Biedermeier commode in cherry veneer, comprising four drawers, with ebonised half-columns, detailing and handles. The int...

A XIX Century three drawer Biedermeier commode in pickled walnut, with ebonised tapering legs and bronzed handles.

This French Empire commode is a perfect example of the type of chest of drawers that became popular in the early 1800s. This was a time when Napoleon preferred to do away with styles...

The desk body is made of pine and oak with a Karelian birch veneer and the mirrored base is supported by four curved feet, embellished by an entwined patinated bronze snake with a gilt head and tail. The pad feet are supported by ebonized mahogany floor plates. The middle portion consists of five small drawers and a large desk drawer and within a manufactured mahogany interior with seven compartments and eight secret compartments as well as two movable elements, one of which is covered with velvet. The lower drawers have gilt gooseneck fittings. The mirror attachment includes a mechanism for taking the mirror plate vertically out and up to 180 degrees, which can, in turn, be fixed in almost any position. This mirror is flanked by two carved mahogany phoenixes with gilt heads and feet, and on the reverse side there are two more secret compartments in the lower area of the right as well as the left foot of the base. The Poudreuse Secretary is an exceptional example of Russian furniture of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The depiction and symbolic arrangement of the remarkable bronze snakes and the carved phoenix is typical of the style of the important Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin (1759-1814). As well, this Poudreuse Secretary Desk has as well a similar structure to a dressing table made by the celebrated cabinetmaker (ebéniste) Heinrich Gambs...

Empire style mahogany commode, early 20th c., bow front case fitted with pull-out leather brushing slide, over three drawers, flanked by fluted c...

A french marbled top and bronze mounted mahogany commode. The original grey marble top over the three drawers with flame veneers and lion mask handles. Th...

Four drawers and neoclassical details compose this outstanding Empirical commode hand-crafted in France circa 1810. This case piece is topped with an interesting piece of black, gray and white fossil marble that, along with the body, has patinated wonderfully over the decades. Iconic of the Empire style, two pilaster columns flank the bank of drawers, each having decorative brass caryatid capitals and neoclassical bases. The top frieze drawer and the three that follow all have paired swan...

Antique French Empire-Style Parcel Ebonized Mahogany Commode, marble top, three graduated drawers, tall block feet. Elegant French commode with ebonized detailing at curved pilasters...