Rococo Furniture
ROCOCO STYLE
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts in the 18th century that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design. Rococo furniture, while greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, is often called Louis XV style — the movement having reached its best expression during that sybaritic French king’s reign.
The term “rococo” is thought to be a portmanteau of the French words rocaille and coquilles — “rock” and “shells” — organic motifs frequently used in architecture and design of the style.
When it comes to authentic Rococo furniture's characteristics, it is above all sensuous and social. The furniture of earlier eras in Europe had been heavy in every sense; the Rococo period saw the appearance of light-framed upholstered armchairs, side chairs and occasional tables that could easily be moved to form conversational circles.
The signal detail of Rococo furniture design is the gently curved cabriole, or S-shaped chair-, table-, and cabinet-leg. It imitates the bend of a tree limb or a flower stem. In a further reference to nature, furnishings were often asymmetrical and painted white, or in soft, pastel shades. Rococo has become a timeless style, and as the furniture pieces presented on 1stDibs demonstrate, its playful, sculptural forms can provide visual excitement to contemporary, clean-lined spaces.
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Style: Rococo
Period: 19th Century
Bronze Andirons, France, 19th Century
Located in Belmont, MA
Very decorative Rococo style bronze andirons. Dating back to the 19th century, the pair of andirons comes from France. They are embellished with two putti and curved rocaille and oak...
Category
1860s French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$2,500 / set
19th Century Gilt Wood Rococo Console Table with Red Marble Top
Located in Baambrugge, NL
Antique carved and gilded wood console table with red marble top (Incarnat Turquin marble), Rococo, 19th century.
Measures: Height 89 cm x width 124 x depth 53 cm.
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Marble
Pair of Victorian Period Amboyna Cabinets with Sèvres Style Porcelain Plaques
By Hobbs
Co.
Located in London, GB
Pair of Victorian period amboyna cabinets with Sèvres style porcelain plaques
English, late 19th century
Dimensions: Height 108cm, width 77cm, depth 47cm
This unusual and superb...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Bronze Rococo Candlestick from Around, 1880
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique bronze rococo candlestick from around, 1880.
Solidly worked candlestick with 4 candle holders. Heavily ornate and detailed work.
Rococo aro...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
$1,077 Sale Price
51% Off
Dutch Mahogany Bombe Petit Chest of Drawers
Located in Essex, MA
With a serpentine top and conforming bombe form case section with three drawers with brass bail handles, raised on bracket feet.
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
Enamel cloissoné and gilt bronze picture frame. France, late 19th century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Enamel cloissoné and gilt bronze picture frame. France, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Monumental 19th Century Italian Giltwood Mirror
Located in Sarasota, FL
A monumental giltwood oval mirror made in Italy in the 19th century. The rococo frame is carved with a large pierced acanthus leaf crest that overhangs the frame with pierced lattice...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
A Late 19th Venetian Oval Gilt-Inlaid, Coloured Glass and Etched Mirror
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Late 19th Venetian Oval Gilt-Inlaid, Coloured Glass and Etched Mirror
The high shaped crest framed by opposed C scrolls and S scrolls with overlapping leaves above, the glass cent...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass, Mirror, Glass
A Fine 19th Century French Gilt Gesso Overmantel Mirror with a Bevelled Plate
Located in London, GB
A fine and large profusely decorated French gilt gesso overmantel mirror in the Rococo taste. The deeply moulded arched frame is carved with floral and foliate motifs in low relief, ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Gesso, Giltwood
Set of Ten 19th C. Italian Dining Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of Ten Italian Rococo style dining chairs with hand carved floral urn at tops of chairs. The urns are flanked by two scrolls. The chairs stand on four straight legs with intric...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
$4,800 Sale Price / set
49% Off
Gilt Bronze Chandelier with Lost-Wax Process, France, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt bronze chandelier with lost-wax process, France, circa 1890.
Category
1890s French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Porcelain Garniture
Located in London, GB
With its exquisite paintings of putti playing sports in Arcadian landscapes, this ‘bleu celeste’ garniture demonstrates the exceptional beauty and high-quality craftsmanship of Sevre...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Pair of Sèvres Style Gilt Bronze and Jewelled Porcelain Vases
Located in London, GB
Pair of Sèvres style gilt bronze and jewelled porcelain vases
French, Late 19th Century
Height 46cm, width 21cm, depth 16cm
Made in the style of the famous Sèvres porcelain manufa...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Six Rococo Sèvres Style Porcelain Plates
Located in London, GB
Each porcelain plate in this set of six features a navy-blue ground, distinctive to works produced in the style of Sèvres, and gilded rims with ornate patterns inscribed. The centre ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$16,431 / set
Armchair 19th century France
Located in New York, NY
An armchair made in France during the 19th century. Made from polished oak and leather upholstery.
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Leather, Oak
Unusual 19th Century Meissen Figure of a Camel after a Model by J. J. Kandler
Located in New York, NY
A unusual 19th century Meissen figure of a camel with blue under-glaze double crossed swords mark, after J.J. Kandler.
Naturalistically modeled above a rocky outcrop on a scroll-mol...
Category
1850s German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Gorgeous Figurines Group Six Gardeners, Tall Tree by Acier, circa 1870
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen gorgeous figurine group of stunning appearance.
There are six gardeners - flanked by a tall tree - visible.
MANUFACTORY: MEISSEN (M939)
DATING: THIRD QUARTER OF 19TH...
Category
1870s German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres Style Garniture Procelain Rose Pomedur Clock
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
A Sevres style Ormolu mounted jewelwd procelain
Rose pomedur clock garniture 19th century
50 cm x 24 cm the clock
15 cm x 40 cm flanked
with pastoral scens ( teserves ).
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$7,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Meissen-Style Porcelain Wall Sconce
Located in New Orleans, LA
This magnificent Meissen-style porcelain wall sconce features three candle holders and is adorned with hand-painted, floral Rococo decoration.
cir...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Meissen
Large and Ornate Régence Hall Lantern
Located in London, GB
A large and beautiful Régence style hanging lantern. The hexagonal glazed lantern is mounted with an ornate foliate corona, with traces of the original gilding. The hinged door has t...
Category
1880s French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Rococo Style Dining Chair Painted Black From 1860s
Located in Lejre, DK
Black painted dining chair in the style of Rococo from the 1860s. The chair is in great vintage condition and with striped upholstery.
Category
1860s Danish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Baccarat Opaline Glass Lamp, Vase Formed with Floral Decoration
By Baccarat
Located in London, GB
A Baccarat opaline glass lamp, vase formed with floral decoration
French, 19th century
Measures: Lamp: height 74cm, diameter 19cm
Shade: heig...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Brass
Art foundry of Johann HERZNER (attributed to), Lantern with rich rococo decorati
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This ornate rococo-style lantern was crafted by the art foundry of Johann Herzner in the last quarter of the 19th century.
The Johann Herzner art foundry, located at 37 Erzgießereis...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Berlin KPM Guild Royal Blue Porcelain Vase
Located in Guaynabo, PR
Berlin KPM pedestal vaulted vase. It is hand painted on the front with a scene of Kronprinzepalais building redesigned by Johann Heinrich Strack for Prince Frederick William of Pruss...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$14,400 Sale Price
52% Off
Sculpture Panthère rugissant by Thomas Cartier
Located in Ibiza, Spain
An impressive sculpture of Thomas François Cartier (1879-1943), of a lioness, roaring. The sculpture is made of bronze patinated and is signed T. CARTIER on the terrace.
Every item ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
19th Century, Pair of Italian Baroque Style Nightstand or Cabinets
Located in IT
19th Century, Pair of Italian Baroque Style Nightstand or Cabinets
This refined pair of bedside tables, or central cabinets, was made in Genoa (Italy) in the second half of the nin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Fine Pair Rococo Style White and Gold Porcelain Table Lamps, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Luminous white and gold porcelain table lamps in the Rococo/ Louis XV style, mounted on Carrara marble bases. Wave upon wave of rocaille decoration highlighted in gold, formerly a pa...
Category
19th Century European Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century, French Painting with Blind man
s bluff by Nicolas Edward Gabe
Located in IT
Nicolas Edward Gabe (Paris, 1814-1865)
Blind man's bluff
Oil on canvas, cm L 72 x W 58 (without frame); with frame cm H 98 x W 84 x D 8
The painting, made in oil on canvas, depicts s...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Canvas
$17,563 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Louis XV Giltwood Wall Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
Elevate an entryway, dressing room, or hallway with this elegant antique giltwood mirror crafted in France circa 1880 and shaped in the Louis XV style. The rectangular frame features...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
12 Arm Rococo Style Converted Bronze Chandelier, 24" wide x 51" tall
Located in Toledo, OH
12 Arm Rococo Style Converted Bronze Chandelier. 1890's Chandelier converted to electric, Rococo styling, bronze, polished crystals. 12 Arms with 12 lights. Body 24" wide x 32" tall ...
Category
1890s Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Antique Meissen Two-Light Mirrored Girandole Sconces
Located in Montreal, QC
These sconces are highly decorative and desirable and display many of the qualities that make Meissen porcelain so world famous: the skill with which the wild flowers are applied, the subtle shading of the pink and pale green painting...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large French Rococo Oval Gilt Wall Mirror
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large French Rococo Oval Gilt Wall Mirror
The Mirror has an exquisite gilt Frame in the Rococo Style, it is elaborately decorated with shells, swags and leaves
The large age darke...
Category
19th Century Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
French Carved Gilt Corner Console Wall Shelf
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
French Carved Gilt Corner Console wall shelf
A beautifully carved gilt console shelf, it has a bow shaped front and a carved leg
This is a good-looking piece and the Gold has a g...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
19th Century Venetian Rococo Hand-Painted and Giltwood Table
Located in Sofia, BG
A very fine Venetian giltwood cream hand-painted table with rich floral carvings on the top.
Lovely piece with original paint,
Italy, circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
$1,267 Sale Price
74% Off
19th Century Large Scale French Rococo Carved and Giltwood Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
Exceptional 19th century large scale French Rococo carved giltwood mirror. Impressive carvings including an ornate crest. There is a cherub that can be added to the center of the cre...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Italian Rococo Gilt Wood Rectangular Carved Wall Mirror
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Gold gilt carved wall mirror from Italy with amazing patina front and back. Charming classic Rococo style Italian mirror from the 19th Century. Perfect piece to be used formally or i...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Large Rococo Style Carved Giltwood and Silver Gilt Mirror, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A large Rococo style carved giltwood and silver gilt mirror.
Possibly German, circa 1870.
The arched mirror plate within a moulded re-entrant inner frame, flanked by an outer ...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Northern Swedish Long Case Clock, Rococo Style with Original Blue Paint
Located in Kramfors, SE
Antique long case clock from northern Sweden made by hand around 1810. The clock has its origin in northern Sweden in the county Härjedalen which is on the border to Norway. The case...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Pine
Japy Freres Rococo Gilt Bronze Antique French Cartel Wall Clock
By Japy Frères
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A superb Rococo gilt-bronze cartel clock, the asymmetrical rocaille cartouche conceived as a cloud-borne trophy after the celebrated painted ceiling of the Salon d’Hercule, Palace of...
Category
19th Century European Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique French Rococo Style giltwood Brackets Carved with Ho Ho Birds
Located in Montreal, QC
In about the middle of the 18th century there was a period when Exuberance began to eclipse the understated quality so celebrated in English furniture . From France came the fashi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Large Carrara Marble Rococo Louis XV Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A fine French Louis XV chimneypiece in a softly mottled Carrara marble, which epitomises the Rococo style. The wide, moulded serpentine shelf rests on the boldly carved console jambs...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble
Meissen Figurines Cherubs Allegory of Arithmetic Model 12 by Acier, circa 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen Gorgeous cherub figurines group: Allegory of Arithmetic.
Designer:
Michael Victor Acier (1736-1799).
Design made circa 1774 / this model of cherubs' group had been mad...
Category
1860s German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Deal with Goose Model 720 Johann Joachim Kaendler Made circa 1850-1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen stunning figurine group: The Deal with Goose
Model 720
Measures:
height 6.69 inches (17.0 cm)
width 6.69 inches (17.0 cm)
depth 4.72 inches (12.0 cm)
Manufactory: Meissen
Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword Mark (glazed bottom)
model number 720 / former's number 6 / painter's number 71
First quality
Dating: 19th century / made circa 1850-1860
Material: porcelain, glossy finish, multicolored painted
Technique: handmade porcelain
Style: Rococo
Modelled by:
Johann Joachim Kaendler...
Category
1850s German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Four Italian 19th Century Roccoco Giltwood and Gilt Metal Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most impressive and monumentally scaled set of four Italian early 19th century Rococo st. giltwood and gilt metal sconces. Each ten arm sconce is centered by a beautiful scrolled f...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian Pair of Large Walnut Candlesticks, Early 19th Century
Located in CH
Italian Pair of Large Walnut Carved Candlesticks
Early 19th Century, after 17th-Century Design
An elegant pair of Italian candlesticks crafted in walnut and richly carved with leaf ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Antique Porcelain Sconces by Meissen
Located in London, GB
Pair of antique porcelain sconces by Meissen
German, late 19th Century
Measures: Height 57cm, width 38cm, depth 10cm
This fine pair of Ge...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$24,646 / set
19th Century Capodimonte Polychrome Porcelain Incense Burners Vases with Flowers
By Capodimonte
Located in Firenze, IT
An exquisite pair of early 19th century Italian Capodimonte Rocococ style polychrome porcelain incense burners in the form of urn shaped vases with two handles and pierced lids.
The...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Hand Woven Belgian Tapestry, Circa 1850
Located in Sarasota, FL
Hand woven tapestry, depicts a jungle scene with lavish foliage, a big cat and colorful birds, framed with a rich floral border. In excellent condition, has been stored in a box. Mad...
Category
Mid-19th Century Belgian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Fabric
Ormolu-Mounted Rococo Style Antique Marble Urn
Located in London, GB
This exuberantly designed lidded urn is carved in veined green marble. The body of the urn is of canted ovoid shape and mounted with twin acanthus leaf ormolu handles. The body of th...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Early 19th Century Oval Giltwood Mirror in the Rococo Style
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th Century oval gilt wood mirror in the Rococo style with inverted C scroll decoration and original glass
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Large Italian Statue of a Sleeping Nymph
Located in London, GB
A large Italian school carrara marble sculpture depicting a sleeping nymph. The finely carved sculpture is reminiscent of a depiction of Sleeping Ariadne, popularised by the Roman copy of the Hellenistic original, the former being housed at the Vatican. Reclining on rocks, the sleeping nymph is shown draped only below the waist, and her finely modelled form is exemplified by the delicacy of her fingers.
Italian, early 19th century.
Before restoration.
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Statuary Marble
Italian Early 19th C. Rococo Style Mirror with Beautiful Pierce-Carved Crest
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Rococo style painted and gilded wood mirror from the early 19th century. This Italian mirror features a grooved frame with a nicely carved crest, decorated with various sc...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Polish Steel Base Table with Glass Top
Located in North Salem, NY
Create a peaceful dining environment in your breakfast room, back patio or dining room with this lovely 19th century French ornate polish steel base table with 1/2" glass top with be...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Steel, Metal
$8,022 Sale Price
30% Off
Very Large Napoleon III Period Rococo Style Gilt Bronze Lantern
Located in London, GB
Very large Napoleon III period Rococo style gilt bronze lantern
French, late 19th century
Measures: Height 176cm, width 80cm, depth 80cm
This exceptional lantern was produced du...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century English Rococo Style Mirrors
Located in London, GB
A Pair of English Rococo Style Mirrors
Carved from wood and gilded, the almond-shaped mercury silvered plates surrounded in a Rococo asymmetrical frame cared with scrolls, acanthus ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
19th Century French Giltwood Mirror
Located in High Point, NC
This antique French mirror offers an elegant 19th century design in giltwood. Made in the 1800s, carved rosettes adorn the corners of the frame, while intricate patterns of beading a...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Large French 19th Century Figural Mirror with Cherubs and Swan
Located in Tarzana, CA
A magnificent 19th century French Rococo style carved giltwood figural palatial mirror. This imposing mirror is decorated in the Rococo style with an array of carved fruits and flowe...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Antique 19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Crystal Candelabra
Located in London, GB
This pair of antique French candelabra are in the Rococo style, and are masterfully cast in gilt bronze and hung with crystal droplets. Each candelabrum holds scrolling branches for ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Lobmeyr Hand Blown Crystal Punchbowl, Goblets
Ladle W/ Raised Gold
By J.L Lobmeyr
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is a rare Lobmeyr complete punch set comprised of a hand-blown lidded and footed punchbowl with 12 matching punch cups. This exquisite example has optic rib internal decoration ...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Gilt Bronze Figurine Young Lady with Love Letter at Fountain 19th century
Located in Sweden, SE
Step back in time with this stunning hand-chased cast bronze figurine, reminiscent of the beautiful Rococo era. Sculpture depicting a beautiful young lady in a garden by a fountain, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
Rococo furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo 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, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, mirrors and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Interi, Meissen Porcelain, Johann Joachim Kändler, and Europa Antiques. 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 $18 and tops out at $425,000 while the average work can sell for $3,793.
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