A bijouterie table is designed to store and display a collection of small valuable items. In French usuage, a bijouterie magasin refers to a jewellery shop. Bijouterie tables are also called table vitrines, and display tables.

A French word for a display cabinet, from the French 'vitre', or glass, and usually applied to a display cabinet of French origin. They were introduced in a modest way in 18th century France and became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some vitrines have a mirrored back allowing viewing of both the back and front of the objects displayed. They are often embellished with ormolu mounts and painted or lacquered panels, and the style was copid in England in the late 19th century when the Louis XV style was in vogue.

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A New Zealand colonial inlaid woods display table, the…

Colonial Inlaid Woods Display Table with Carved Border

A New Zealand colonial inlaid woods display table, the starburst centre in mottled kauri field framed by various parquetry panels, carved border. Raised on four turned supports and with shaped lower shelf. 80 x 53.5 x 75.5 cm. Minor repair required. Maker…

A cedar vitrine table, with glazed lift up top on turned…

Cedar Vitrine Table with Glazed Lift-Up Top

A cedar vitrine table, with glazed lift up top on turned tapering legs, height 81 cm, width 67 cm, depth 61 cm

An elegant stretcher-based Bijouterie table, 20th century, made…

Schwartz & Angelo Bijouterie Table

An elegant stretcher-based Bijouterie table, 20th century, made by Schwartz & Angelo Melbourne, the fabric lined table with a glazed lid and sides above angled tapering square legs with sabre feet united by 'U' shaped supports and twin bar stretchers,…

A Louis XV style ormolu mounted kingwood bijouterie table, 19th…

Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Bijouterie Table

A Louis XV style ormolu mounted kingwood bijouterie table, 19th century, 75 cm high, 67 cm wide, 40 cm deep. Provenance: The Collection of Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Christies, Brisbane, 6 June 1989, lot 847, Private collection, Queensland

A West Australian casuarina wood Sheoak, table top curio…

Sheoak Curio Display Cabinet with Glazed Top and Sides

A West Australian casuarina wood Sheoak, table top curio display cabinet glazed top and all four sides, with fold down rear doors. Height 22.5 cm; width 126 cm; Depth 58 cm

A rare New Zealand colonial period dark stained kauri table…

Dark Stained Kauri French Style Vitrine Table

A rare New Zealand colonial period dark stained kauri table vitrine, of French style with a glazed and lined serpentine top, elegant slender carved cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. 68 cm x 48 cm x 73 cm