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Louis XVI Furniture

LOUIS XVI STYLE

Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.

Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.

Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.

The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.

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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Louis XVI
Large Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilded Candelabra, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality large pair of French Louis XVI style candelabra. Each having 5 branch gilded ormolu sconces with flowers and l...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Marble, Bronze, Ormolu

Louis XVI Style Mahogany Stands Attributed to François Linke, French, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany stands, firmly attributed to François Linke. This delicate pair of mahogany pedestals or stands each have an inset green onyx top above a frieze mounted with allegorical scenes of music. The frieze contains a pull-out slide and the stands are raised on square section tapering legs headed by musical trophies and united by a shaped stretcher with a flambeau finial. An almost identical Stand, with a green onyx top, typical slender legs and shaped stretcher is illustrated by Christopher Payne in François Linke (1855-1946) 'The Belle Époque of French Furniture', p. 53, pl. 44. It is described as a Stand or gaine and titled by Linke as 'Pedestal Louis XVI acajou et bronzes dorés', index number 56. It was available with or without a slide and a drawer, priced between 400 and 500 francs. A comparable version is also shown as a pencil drawing from Linke's Daybook and illustrated in Payne, p. 474. The ribbon tied musical trophies that head the legs of each stand was a mount frequently used by Linke on a number of different items of furniture including vitrines, commodes and a Bibliothèque Louis XVI...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Onyx, Bronze

Large Louis XVI style mantel in yellow Sienna marble
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This large Louis XVI style mantelpiece was carved in Sienna yellow marble in the 19th century. The lintel is adorned with a rich and delicate low relief sculpture: in the centre, a h...
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19th Century European Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Siena Marble

Large Scale Louis XVI Style Trumeau Mirror
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Large trumeau with original mercury glass mirror. The beveling follows the contours of the frame. The top part is adorned with rosettes, a garland of wood-carved roses and foliage...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Wood, Mercury Glass, Mirror

Pair of red marble and gilt bronze table candelabra by Barbedienne
Located in London, GB
Pair of red marble and gilt bronze table candelabra by Barbedienne French, 19th Century Height 57cm, width 17cm, depth 15cm The exceptional candelabra in this pair, by the famed mak...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Ormolu

21st Century Brocart Chest of Drawers with Hand-carved Legs
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
The chest of drawers of the Brocart line is a piece of furniture with a refined and luxurious charm. The base, with hand-carved legs and antique gold leaf finishing in pure classic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Wood

Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble Urns Attributed to Maxime Secrétant, circa 1890
By Maxime Secretant
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted Bleu Turquin marble urns with Satyr masks, attributed to Maxime Secrétant. French, circa 1890. ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of candelabras in bronze louis XVI styles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Execptional pair of candelabras in gilt bronze louis XVI style, 9 lights ,all the details are remarkable quality and the decoration is very unsual , its why they are execptional orig...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Pair of Sconces Ormolu Bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Extremely high end pair of scones in ormolu bronze louis XVI style, original gilt.
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Early 20th Century Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Group of Cut Steel Sewing Accoutrements
Located in London, by appointment only
A group of late 18th cut steel Plombieres needlework accessories. France, circa 1775. Measures: Height on stand 8 inches (20cms), width 13 inches, depth 4 inches.
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Cut Steel

Magnificent pair of vases in crystal and bronze with cherub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Magnificent pair of vases crystal and bronze louis XVI style The marble bases with bronze circle supports three draped patinated bronze loves which are...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Crystal, Marble, Bronze

Large Pair of Louis XVI Style Wall Lights
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive large pair of French, Louis XVI style gilded ormolu wall sconces, having classical ribbon and bow decoration.
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu

Pair Louis XVI Style Candelabra, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of French gilded ormolu and rouge marble candelabra, depicting two putti each supporting a two branch candelabra.
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Marble, Bronze

21st Century Pegaso 2-Seater Sofa in Fabric
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
Soft lines and timeless design for the Pegaso line. The seats are characterized by a lateral opening which gives the furniture a special lightness. The fringes add a decorative note that enhances the sophisticated atmosphere that is typical of Jumbo Collection environments. Pegaso 2-seater sofa with structure in beechwood. Padding in foam. Upholstery in fabric MIL.21.09, MIL.21.23 with decorative fringe. N° 2 pillows 50 x 30...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Furniture

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Beech, Fabric

21st Century Pleasure Pouf in Fabric and Decorative Fringe
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
Pleasure is a line of furnishings with linear and essential shapes, characterized by an elegant and sophisticated charm. The refined workmanship and the soft velvet covering make the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Furniture

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Fabric, Wood

Pair Of Louis XVI Style Three-Light Vase Candelabra
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair Of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze And Royal Blue Sèvres-Style Porcelain Three-Light Vase Candelabra. Each baluster-form vase applied with a fruiting swag, flanked by twin entwin...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu

18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and Marble Obelisk Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Signed: Joseph Gay Horloger du Roy A Turin The movement is contained in a white marble obelisk which is surmounted by an armillary sphere finial. The front with a panel chased wit...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Ormolu

Louis XVI Mirror Between Two In Carved And Gilded Wood, End Of The 18th Century
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Louis XVI mirror in carved and gilded wood, late 18th century
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Glass, Giltwood

Aubusson Tapestrie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Magnificent tapestrie wool and silk, hand woven, very good condition, good Dimension for high end decoration.
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Wool, Silk

Pair of 19th Century Trellis and Dot Tables Attributed to Donald Ross
Located in London, GB
A rare pair of tables attributed to Donald Ross of London Constructed in citronnier, ebony and harewood, and dressed with a porcelain plaque in the 'Sevres' manner, and adorned wi...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu, Bronze

Louis XVI Style Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirror
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood and gesso mirror. The pierced scrolling crest surmounted by ho-ho birds flanking a basket of fruit over a shaped central bevelled mirror pla...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Gesso, Giltwood

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Polished Steel Pedestal Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and polished steel pedestal table. The circular white marble top with bead cast surround, on athenienne tripod support with central spirally-fluted ste...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Steel, Ormolu

Walnut Secretary in Louis XVI Style
Located in Vulpellac, Girona
18th century secretary in Louis XVI style in walnut. It features three large drawers on the bottom and on the top the secretary opens to five s...
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18th Century Spanish Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Walnut

Walnut Secretary in Louis XVI Style
Walnut Secretary in Louis XVI Style
€6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Fireplace Mirror, Louis XVI Trumeau In Carved Wood Rechampi White And Gray
Located in Honnelles, WHT
EFireplace mirror, Louis XVI trumeau in carved wood with white and gray trim, 18th century
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Glass

Pair of Petite Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Chenets
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of petite Louis XVI Style gilt and patinated bronze chenets. Each modelled as a seated winged putto with outstretched arms raised on a pierced acanthus cast gilt-bronze st...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu, Bronze

Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock, by Grohé Frères
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A large and exceptional Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and white marble figural mantel clock, by Grohé Frères, Paris. The dial signed ‘Grohé, A Paris'. ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Watercolor , garden of an italien palace
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful watercolor from the end of the 18 century representing a garden of an italian palace sign by RENE LOUIS MAURICE BEGGUYER DE CHANCOURTOIS {Nantes 1757-Paris 1817}
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Paint

Pair Of Louis XV/louis XVI Transition Music Furniture
Located in Beaune, FR
Rare pair of music furniture in mahogany and marquetry in the Transition Louis XV / Louis XVI style decorated with chiseled bronzes. Upper part composed of a tablet and a tray in cub...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

18th Century Louis XVI St Anne s Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in Southall, GB
Very rare 18th century antique French Louis XVI marble fireplace mantel. Hand carved in desirable St Anne's marble. Fluted recess pan...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble

19th Century Parquetry Centre Table in the Louis XVI Manner by François Linke
Located in London, GB
A Louis XVI style parquetry centre table firmly attributed to François Linke Constructed in Kingwood, Tulipwood and Mahogany, with foliate inlay work, parquetry and Fine ormolu b...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze, Ormolu

A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Porcelain Low Side Tables
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine and Unusual Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Low Side Tables With Sèvres-Style Porcelain Tops. Each table has a fine Sèvres-style porc...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu

An Impressive 19th Century Louis XVI Style Fireplace in Veined Statuary Marble
Located in London, GB
A 19th century, Louis XVI style chimneypiece in veined statuary marble with impressive and well-cast gilt bronze mounts. The rectangular shelf with rounded ends. The frieze with well...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Statuary Marble, Bronze

A Louis XVI Style Porcelain Mounted Gueridon
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Porcelain Mounted Gueridon. The oval top with a pierced gallery centred by an inset Sèvres-style porcelain plaque painted ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu

Marquetry Inlaid Occasional Table, Attributed to Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Gilt-Bronze Marquetry Inlaid Occasional Table, Attributed to Emmanuel Zwiener. The reverse of the gilt-bronze sabot incised 'Z' This exquisite table is perfect for a living room ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Wood

Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Cabinet with a Painted Panel, French
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted cabinet with a Vernis martin panel, in the manner of Paul Sormani. This elegant cabinet has a rectangular Seravezza marble top with cant...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Bronze

Antique Pair of Decorative Vases in Royal Blue Porcelain and Gilt
Located in London, GB
A pair of gilt bronze and porcelain vases. Rising from a rounded cut-corner square marble base, the miniature blue de roi-glazed porcelain ewers dressed with gilt bronze mounts; t...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Ormolu, Bronze

19th Century Brass Lantern in the Louis XVI Manner
Located in London, GB
A good hall lantern in the Louis XVI Manner. Of circular form, the frame in patinated bronze, cast and chased with a pattern of imbricated laurel leaves, with stud finials below, ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Brass, Bronze

Louis XVI Style Bronze Fender
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style bronze fender cast with ignipotent putti. French, circa 1860.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

A Pair of Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Five-Light Wall Appliques
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Five-Light Wall Appliques. Each modelled with a quiver-shaped back plat surmounted by an classical urn finial. Issuing five 'S'-scrolled branches. ...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Fine Giltwood Mirror Louis XVI Style
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI giltwood mirror. The mirror retains its original mirror plate. A charming r...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Giltwood

19th Century French Furnitue Gilt Bronze Bureau a Cylinder by A. Chevrie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Remarkable cylinder desk in mahogany and bronze louis XVI style executed by A.Chevrie, famous cabinetmaker parisian this bureau a cylindre has 3 belt...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Pair of Military Bronzes by Etienne Henri Dumaige
Located in London, GB
Representing two separate moments in the French Revolution, the uprising against Louis XVIth, and the fall of the monarchy in 1792. One subject being a drummer, marked a^??Avant le c...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Pair of Walnut Side Cabinets with Sèvres-style Porcelain Mounts, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A good pair of gilt bronze-mounted walnut side cabinets with Sèvres-style porcelain mounts. French, circa 1880. The rectangular tops having out-stepped corners above a single ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Pair of Petite Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Fluorspar Cassolettes
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of petite Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted fluorspar cassolettes. Each cassolette having an ovoid form fluorspar body surmounted by a gilt-bronze stiff-leaf cast neck, ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

21st Century Lumière Console in Metal and Wood
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
The classic elegance of the French style relives in all its beauty in the Lumière furnishings. The recurring element of all the pieces is a base made of slender columns in metal enriched with lost-wax cast brass details, while the upper part features the most lavish decorations. Lumière console...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Furniture

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Brass

Pair of Chenet Bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hight end decoration pair of chenet in bronze louis XVI style 19th, rare model very well executed and finely chiseled.
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Pair of Chenet Bronze
Pair of Chenet Bronze
€4,161 / set
21st Century Lumière Central Table in Metal and Wood
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
The classic elegance of the French style relives in all its beauty in the Lumière furnishings. The recurring element of all the pieces is a base made of slender columns in metal enri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Furniture

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Brass

Antique Louis XVI Neoclassical Fireplace Mantel in Statuary Marble
Located in London, GB
In veined statuary marble with typical straight lines and symmetrical sculptured decoration, French, 18th century. With rectangular moulded shelf above the frieze which is carved with scrolling, flowering acanthus. The jambs in the form of tapering consoles, with rounded bracket shaped shoulders capped by rectangular blockings delicately carved with more acanthus, symbolic of Imperial Rome...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Statuary Marble

French 19th Century Mahogany and Gilt Bronze Side Table by Fernand Kohl
Located in London, GB
A Fine Side Table signed by Fernand Kohl in the Louis XVI manner Constructed in mahogany, rising from fluted and tapered cylindrical legs, with acanthus fire gilt bronze sabots, t...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Chenets Allegorical of Winter
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Chenets Allegorical of Winter. Each chenet is formed as seated putto clad in drapery, on shaped gilt-bronze plinth bases wit...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

19th Century Pair of sconces three light gilt bronze Louis XVI style
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Whismical pair of sconces gilt bronze three lights ,louis XVI style after a famous model executed by Delafosse one of the best bronzier of ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Cut-Glass Tent and Bag Chandelier with Finely Cast Entwined Dolphins, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine gilt-bronze cut-glass tent and bag chandelier with finely cast entwined dolphins. French, circa 1900. This fine chandelier has a gilt-bro...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Twenty-Four-Light Figural Chandelier, French
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A magnificent Louis XVI Style gilt bronze twenty-four-light figural chandelier. This fine chandelier is of large size at over 185 cm (73 inches) high. Finely cast in gilt bronze i...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

21st Century Très Jolie Low Table with Gold Leaf Laser Engraved Lace
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
Très Jolie hexagonal coffee tables, available in different sizes, allow the creation of original and functional compositions. The tables are characterized by the presence of panels w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Furniture

Materials

Wood

Copf Style Cherry Inlay Secretaire Cabinet, ca. 1800
Located in Budapest, Budapest
Early 19th century hutch, (combination of a writing secretaire and a glass cabinet) in Copf-Style. The pine corpus has a cherry veneer, and has fine...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Cherry, Pine

Chandelier Crystal Baccarat Bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Top quality of chandelier in bronze and crystal Baccarat, this chandelier is very elegant and it can find a place in any room, any style of home becau...
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1930s French Vintage Louis XVI Furniture

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Crystal, Bronze

Elegant Louis Xvi Style Fireplace Surround, French, Mid 19th Century
Located in London, GB
An Elegant Louis Xvi Style Fireplace Surround, Finely Carved In White And Pink Marble, Adorned With Scrolling Foliate And Floral Ormolu Decoratio...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Marble, Brass

Pair of Gilt Bronze Chenet Louis XVI Style
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine pair of louis XVI french chenet in giltbronze of exquisite workmanship embellished by a magnificent vase on the top of each chenet.  
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1930s French Vintage Louis XVI Furniture

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Bronze

Iron Topiary Representing a House Front, circa 1970
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Iron topiary representing a classical style house front. Architectural front with a two floors elevation. Central projection part, welcoming a door topp...
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1970s European Vintage Louis XVI Furniture

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Iron

Louis XVI Antique Regency Chimneypiece in Griotte Rouge Marble
Located in London, GB
Louis Xvi Antique Regency Chimneypiece in Griotte Rouge Marble External width: 57? – 144.7 cm External height 42” – 106.6 cm Depth 12 3/4? – ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture

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Griotte Marble

Louis Xvi furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, tables, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, François Linke, and Maison Jansen. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3 and tops out at $833,747 while the average work can sell for $6,700.

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