Who was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century?

British artist John Singer Sargent was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century. Other notable portraitists from the period include James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassat, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of portrait paintings.

What art style was used by the 19th-century French painters?

The French painters of the 19th century worked in two styles. Neoclassicism dominated the first half of the century, and Impressionism was the most common style during the second half. On 1stDibs, you can find a variety of French paintings.

19th Century Japanese Bronze

Japanese Incense

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Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Bird

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Set of 4 Lovely Red Cloisonne Enamel Flower Vases Meiji Era, 1868-1912

$1,510

Mid-19th Century Japanese 24Carat Gilt Bronze Vases

Located in Larkspur, CA

Mid-19th Century Japanese Hand-Wrought 24Carat Gilt Bronze Vases Depicting a Sheaf of Rice Stalks

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Bronze

Mid-19th Century Japanese 24Carat Gilt Bronze Vases

$5,800

Bronze Sculpture of Japanese Cranes

Located in Katonah, NY

A bronze polychromed sculptural group of two red-crowned cranes, one with head lifted, the other

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings

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Bronze

Bronze Sculpture of Japanese Cranes

$5,500

19th Century Japanese Bronze Classic Form Vase

Located in Larkspur, CA

Late 19th century Japanese bronze Classic form vase with recessed beaded top and base. The perfect

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Antique Late 19th Century Vases

19th Century Japanese Bronze Classic Form Vase

$165

Bronze Okimono from the Meiji Period, Flowering Peony Branch, Japan 19th Century

Located in London, London

Bronze Okimono from the Meiji period (1868-1912), of a flowering peony branch.

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Natural Specimens

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Bronze

Bronze Okimono from the Meiji Period, Flowering Peony Branch, Japan 19th Century

$3,450

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

Located in New York, NY

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

$2,700

19th Century Japanese Bronze vase

Located in New York, NY

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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19th Century Japanese Bronze vase

$7,500

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

Located in New York, NY

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase With Geese

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19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

$4,200

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

Located in New York, NY

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase With a Mythological Depiction

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

$3,300

19th Century Japanese, Bronze Vase

Located in New York, NY

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase With a Dragon Encircling the Neck

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese, Bronze Vase

$4,200

19th Century Japanese Bronze Umbrella Stand, Greek Key Detail

Located in Atlanta, GA

19th century Japanese bronze umbrella stand, Greek key detail.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Umbrella Stands

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Umbrella Stand, Greek Key Detail

$1,650

19th Century Japanese Bronze Fox

Located in Paris, FR

Bronze fox Signature in a cartouche on the reverse Japan – 19th century Elegant and curious

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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo More Asian Art, Objects and Furn...

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Fox

$4,153

19th Century Japanese Bronze Toad

Located in Paris, FR

Bronze Toad  Signature on the reverse  Japan Edo period (1600-1868) A toad-shaped incense

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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo More Asian Art, Objects and Furn...

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Toad

$7,713

19th Century Japanese Bronze Butterfly

Located in Paris, FR

Beautiful brown patina bronze butterfly.

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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Butterfly

$1,186

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

Located in Paris, FR

Long neck bronze vase with a beautiful patina. Praying mantis coveting a relief fly. Missing leg to

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Antique 1850s Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

$2,729

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

Located in London, GB

A 19th century bronze trumpet vase with elephant mask handles to the stem Signed to the

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

$1,643

19th Century Japanese Bronze Elelphant

Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire

A large Japanese green patinated bronze Elephant, very well modelled with rectangular seal mark

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures

19th Century Japanese Bronze Elelphant

$9,447

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

Located in London, west Sussex

A 19th century Japanese Meiji period marinated bronze vase inlaid with gold and silver depicting an

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Vases

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Bronze, Gold, Silver

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase

$1,848

19th Century Japanese Bronze Monkeys

Located in Paris, FR

Couple of sitting monkeys in bronze. One is meditative, the other one eats a fruit. Japon

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Early 20th Century Metalwork

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Monkeys

$2,966

19th Century Japanese Bronze Rat Sculpture

Located in Paris, FR

Bronze rat signature on the cartouche, Japan, 19th century. Rats and mice have a special place

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Rat Sculpture

$4,509

19th Century Japanese Bronze Table Lamps

Located in Fairfax, VA

A beautiful pair of table lamps that features a bronze vase with its origins in 19th century, Japan

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Table Lamps

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Table Lamps

$2,250

19th Century Japanese Bronze Ornamental Vase

Located in Paris, FR

Bronze vase with brown patina. High collar forming a corolla and multi-lobed base.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Ornamental Vase

$2,610

Late 19th Century Japanese bronze lamp

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Japanese Bronze Lamp, late meiji period

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Table Lamps

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Bronze

Late 19th Century Japanese bronze lamp

$2,400

Signed 19th century Japanese bronze incense burner

Located in Sleepy Hollow, NY

A 19th century (Meiji period or earlier) Japanese bronze incense burner with reticulated lid and

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20th Century Japanese Sculptures

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Bronze

Signed 19th century Japanese bronze incense burner

$1,250

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase with Grasshopper

Located in Paris, FR

Bronze vase depicting a bundle of wheat, a carved grasshopper on one side. Japan, Meiji (1868

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Antique 1880s Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase with Grasshopper

$2,729

Spectacular 19th Century Japanese Bronze Plates, Meiji Period

Located in London, GB

Decorated in shallow relief with figurines, the details picked out in gilt and colored enamel.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Other More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

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Bronze

Spectacular 19th Century Japanese Bronze Plates, Meiji Period

$5,477

19th Century Japanese Bronze Box with Gold Decoration

Located in London, GB

Meiji Period Japanese 19th century bronze miniature box, 'kodansu' cabinet by Komai. It stands on

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Boxes

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Box with Gold Decoration

$12,323

19th Century Japanese Bronze Okimono Figure of a Puppy

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A beautiful bronze playful puppy. Lovely to hold. Provenance: The Camilla and Earl McGrath

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Animal Sculptures

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Bronze Okimono Figure of a Puppy

$1,200

19th Century Japanese Bronze Censor with Koi and Water Design

Located in Concord, MA

Meiji or Edo period Japanese bronze footed censor with Koi decoration and cloud band feet

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

19th Century Japanese Bronze Censor with Koi and Water Design

$3,500

Japanese bronze

Located in Hudson, NY

19th Century Japanese bronze

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures

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Bronze

Japanese bronze

$2,500

Pair of Japanese Bronze Candlesticks

Located in New York, NY

A pair of late 19th century Japanese bronze candlesticks modelled as crouching rats holding root

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork

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Bronze

Pair of Japanese Bronze Candlesticks

$4,500

A Pair of Japanese Meiji Bronze Rats

Located in New York, NY

A pair of late 19th century Japanese bronzes modeled as rats with chestnuts. Meiji period.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

A Pair of Japanese Meiji Bronze Rats

$3,800

Japanese Bronze Cloissone Lamp

Located in Montecito, CA

Early 19th Century Japanese Bronze Champleve / Cloissone custom urn shaped lamp, scroll handles

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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Table Lamps

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Bronze

Japanese Bronze Cloissone Lamp

$3,750

A Japanese Bronze Moon Shaped Hanging Basket

Located in New York, NY

A 19th century Japanese bronze crescent moon shape hanging basket with integral ring at the top

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Folk Art Metalwork

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Bronze

A Japanese Bronze Moon Shaped Hanging Basket

$1,500

A PAIR OF JAPANESE BRONZE RABBITS

Located in New York, NY

A charming pair of mid 19th century Japanese bronze rabbits, one lying down and the other alert

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

A PAIR OF JAPANESE BRONZE RABBITS

$23,800

A Pair of Japanese Bronze Rabbits

Located in New York, NY

A pair of mid 19th Century Japanese bronze rabbits, one lying down and the other alert with raised

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Animal Sculptures

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Bronze

A Pair of Japanese Bronze Rabbits

$23,800

Pair of antique Japanese bronze cache pots

Located in New York, NY

An elegant pair of late 19th century Japanese bronze planters, with raised desgin in panels of

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures

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Bronze

Pair of antique Japanese bronze cache pots

$2,200

Art Nouveau Leafy Gourd Vase by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat

By Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat

Located in New York, NY

This extremely rare hand built vase seems inspired by 19th-century Japanese bronzes, whose long

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Antique 19th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Stoneware

Art Nouveau Leafy Gourd Vase by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat

Magnificent Pair Bronze Vases 19th Century Japanese Meiji

By Japanese Studio

Located in London, GB

A magnificent pair of bronze 19th century Japanese vases. Flared rim with geometric decoration to

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork

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Bronze

Magnificent Pair Bronze Vases 19th Century Japanese Meiji

$6,572

19th Century Japanese Patinated Bronze Vase

Located in Paris, FR

Elegant patinated bronze vase Japan – 19th century Signature underneath This particularly

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Antique 19th Century Japanese More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Patinated Bronze Vase

$5,340

19th Century Bronze Japanese Lidded Jar

Located in New York, NY

19th Century Bronze Japanese Lidded Jar

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures

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Bronze

19th Century Bronze Japanese Lidded Jar

$2,400

19th Century Japanese Melon-Shaped Bronze Pot

Located in Paris, FR

Melon-shaped bronze pot Japan – 19th century Bronze pot with brown patina, in shape of melon

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Melon-Shaped Bronze Pot

$3,322

19th c. Japanese Bronze Planter

Located in Dallas, TX

19th c. Japanese Bronze Planter with handles

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze

19th c. Japanese Bronze Planter

$875

19th Century Japanese Mouse in Bronze

Located in Paris, FR

Small bronze representing a mouse nibbling branches in enameled cloisonné, Japan, early 20th

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Early 20th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze, Enamel

19th Century Japanese Mouse in Bronze

$1,661

Japanese Bronze

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese Bronze. 19th Century with Dragon. Beautiful patina.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

Japanese Bronze

$4,500

19th Century Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase

Located in Paris, FR

Bronze vase imitating basketry with two embossed carved small spiders.

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

Materials

Bronze

19th Century Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase

$2,966

19th Century Large Japanese Bronze Incense Burner

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

19th century Japanese incense burner with 15 bronze birds in haut relief on branches and foliage in

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme More Furniture and Collecti...

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Bronze

19th Century Large Japanese Bronze Incense Burner

$20,886

Japanese Bronze

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese Bronze crane on wood base.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Bronze

$1,800

19th Century Japanese Cloisonné and Bronze Table Lamp

Located in Fairfax, VA

A 19th century cloisonné enamel vase oil lamp decorated with two panels enclosing either a bird and

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Table Lamps

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Cloisonné and Bronze Table Lamp

$1,250

Pair of Japanese 19th Century Bronze Vases

Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire

Pair of Japanese 19th century bronze vases decorated with incised flowers and foliage on a gold

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Bronze

Pair of Japanese 19th Century Bronze Vases

$1,848 / set

19th Century Meiji Japanese Bronze Ikebana Vase

Located in Paris, FR

Ikebana bronze imitating basketry, a small suspension handle on the back. A small container inside

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Antique 1890s Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

19th Century Meiji Japanese Bronze Ikebana Vase

$1,424

Japanese bronze vase

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese bronze vase Taisho period

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Bronze

Japanese bronze vase

$1,500

Wonderful Japanese Bronze

Located in Bronx, NY

This late 19th century (ca.1880-1890) Japanese bronze of a Japanese mother & her child, in

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

Wonderful Japanese Bronze

$7,000

Japanese bronze Elephant

Located in Hudson, NY

Bronze Japanese bronze elephant on carved wood base.

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Objects

Materials

Bronze

Japanese bronze Elephant

$1,800

19th Century Oriental Chinese or Japanese Bronze Lion Sculpture

Located in Lyon, RH-Alps

19th century oriental chinese or japanese bronze lion sculpture signed ( photo n° 8 ) on a wood

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures

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Bronze

19th Century Oriental Chinese or Japanese Bronze Lion Sculpture

$2,373

Japanese Bronze

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese Bronze basket-weave pattern, ring handles. Late 19th Century

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Vases

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Bronze

Japanese Bronze

$6,500

19th Century Pair of Bronze Vases from Japan

Located in Firenze, IT

wood, from Japan, early 19th century.

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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Vases

Materials

Bronze

19th Century Pair of Bronze Vases from Japan

$3,916

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Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more in our collection of 19th century Japanese bronze on 1stDibs. A piece of 19th century Japanese bronze — often made from metal, bronze and wood — can elevate any home. There are many kinds of the item from our selection of 19th century Japanese bronze you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. A choice in our collection of 19th century Japanese bronze made by Louis XV designers — as well as those associated with Art Nouveau — is very popular. A well-made object in our assortment of 19th century Japanese bronze has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Eisuke Miyao, Satsuma and Imari Porcelain are consistently popular.

How Much is a 19th Century Japanese Bronze?

Prices for a piece of 19th century Japanese bronze start at $99 and top out at $375,000 with the average selling for $2,813.

Questions About 19th Century Japanese Bronze

Who was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century?
1 Answer
1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
British artist John Singer Sargent was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century. Other notable portraitists from the period include James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassat, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of portrait paintings.
What art style was used by the 19th-century French painters?
1 Answer
1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
The French painters of the 19th century worked in two styles. Neoclassicism dominated the first half of the century, and Impressionism was the most common style during the second half. On 1stDibs, you can find a variety of French paintings.