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Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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.

Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Louis XVI
Italian Small Architectural Gilded Wall Fragment Shelf
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
This wooden gilded wall corbel or shelf is beautifully constructed and ornamented with columns down the center with a floral final at the tip. This wood gilt piece would be a wonderf...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

French Vintage Mirrored Hanging Wall Shelf
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
French vintage 20th century mirror-back hanging wall shelf in Louis XVI style gold gilt frame. The arched top of the mirror is crowned with a floral garland, transitioning into a lay...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Velvet, Glass, Mirror, Wood

Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Essex, MA
With ribbon and bow carved and trailing bell flower over the barometer dial. The dial with grisaille painted maker inscriptions and dial pointers , within a circular giltwood frame. ...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Giltwood

Fine Quality 18th Century Continental School Portrait of A Nobleman
Located in Atlanta, GA
This refined oil on canvas portrait captures a distinguished gentleman in half-length, presented within an illusionistic oval reserve against a darkened background. The sitter, portr...
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18th Century British Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Paint

Pair of French Bronze and Brass Curtain Tiebacks or Curtain Holders, ca. 1920
Located in Barntrup, DE
A beautiful pair of antique bronze and brass curtain holders or tie-backs with very nice Louis XVI-style decorations. France, circa 1920. Dimensions: Height 30 cm / 11.81 in; width 4...
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1920s French Vintage Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Brass, Bronze

Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Essex, MA
By Toricelli. With carved ribbon and bow above an oval dial painted in creme and grisaille with glass cover in a conforming frame.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Metal

19thc. French Antique Louis XVI style Floral Aubusson Wall Hanging / Tapestry
Located in Opa Locka, FL
19thc French Antique Louis Rococo style Floral Aubusson Tapestry. I found this beauty in Nice France. There is a small stain on border top left. Not detracting at all. Birds, trees p...
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1880s Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Pair of framed engravings of elegant women - fashion hairstyle - 18th - France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
A very pretty pair of 18th-century engravings depicting two elegant women with hairstyles in the fashion of the time. These engravings come from the magazine "Le Cabinet des Modes ou...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paper

Hand-Colored French Map, Carte des Etats Unis, Par Bonne, Late 18th Century
Located in Chappaqua, NY
Hand-colored French map, Carte de la Partie Nord, des Etats Unis, de l'Amérique Septentrionale, late 18th century. A French map of New England published at the end of the Revolutionary War...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paper

18th century French School : portrait of an aristocrat dated 1768, oil on canvas
Located in GRENOBLE, FR
18th century French school, portrait of an aristocrat woman circa 1760 - 1770, oil on canvas set into a Louis XVI style frame (the frame is a 19th century production ; it is gilt wit...
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1760s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Gold Leaf

Louis XVI Ormolu Cartel Clock
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The circular glazed white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, set within a pierced case with ribbon-tied fruiting laurel trails, each side with a ram’s mask capped pilaster, ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Bronze

Louis XVI Ormolu Cartel Clock
Louis XVI Ormolu Cartel Clock
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pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Terra Cotta plaques, after Clodion
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very attractive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Terra Cotta plaques, modeled after Clodion. This most elegant pair of plaques depict the seasons and Spring and Winter set...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Terracotta, Wood

Collection Of Assignats French Revolutionary Currencies, late 18th century
Located in Bilzen, BE
A collection of assignats, the paper currency that the revolutionary government attempted to introduce to compensate for the lack of metallic currency and to meet the war effort agai...
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Late 18th Century Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paper

18th Century French Portrait of a Nobleman in a Giltwood Frame
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Portrait of a French Nobleman in Original Louis XVI Giltwood Frame. Canvas is mounted on board. Nobleman is depicted in a luxurious burgundy velvet robe trimmed with go...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Giltwood, Paint

Louis XVI Style Trumeau Panel with Trompe L oeil Mirror Panel
Located in Nashville, TN
Possibly late 18th century but most likely 19th century painted arched painted panel. Either a panel intended for a trumeau or to be inset into wall boiserie as a trumeau. The upper ...
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1830s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Paint

Pierre Adrien Chabal, Louis XVI Style Beauvais Tapestry Panel, France - C.1855
Located in Chatham, ON
Pierre Adrien Chabal-DUSSURGEY (1819-1902) Designer - BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY MANUFACTORY Maker - Important Antique Louis XVI style floral tapestry settee back fragment - the floral tapestry finely woven in wool and silk threads with garlands and swags and tassels - all centered by a powder blue ground cartouche with white roses within an oval frame - suitable for framing - France - circa 1855. Excellent antique condition - minor fading and loss - areas of wear/thinning - no apparent restoration - minor stains and soiling with signs of age and use. Size/dimensions - 35" (91.5 cm.) wide x 24" (61 cm.) high. Pierre Adrien Chabal-DUSSURGEY - born Pierre Adrien Chabal in 1819 in Charlieu and adopting the professional name of CHABAL-DUSSURGEY - well known for his paintings and studies of flowers in gouache and oils - attended the School of Fine Arts in Lyon - exhibited at the Paris and Lyon salons - he worked with the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory and the Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory after 1849 designing tapestries, rugs and tapestry covers for seating - he designed tapestries for the Élysée Palace and worked with Empress Eugenie on furnishings for the small salon at the Élysée Palace and two salons in the palace of the Empress in Biarritz - tapestry covered furniture...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

Pair of Antique Framed Hand Colored French Parrot Engraving
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty pair of 18th Century French hand colored engravings of parrots in natural settings as discovered by noted naturalist George Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon. Presented under glass...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Giltwood

Five-Paneled French Gilt Folding Screen
Located in Redding, CT
Five-paneled French gilt folding screen. Perfect for privacy or for covering up an area. Gorgeous carved wooden gilt design with caning and hand pa...
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1950s French Vintage Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Cane, Wood

Antique 18th Century French Neoclassical Hera s Chariot Hand Fan Shadowbox
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique 18th century French Louis XVI / Neoclassical painted boudoir hand fan. White sticks pierced with foliate / floral designs as well as trumpets and sheets of music; gilded acce...
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18th Century Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Silk, Paint

A 19th C. Italian Oil on Canvas "The Cardinal s Present" by Arturo Ricci
By Arturo Ricci
Located in New York, NY
A Marvelous 19th Century Italian Oil on Canvas titled "The Cardinal's Present" by Arturo Ricci. This oil on canvas is truly incredible and one of Ricci's best works of art. The sce...
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1880s Italian Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood

Pair Of Framed Engravings, French Revolution, 18th/19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Pair of engravings illustrating 2 major episodes of the French Revolution: * the day of August 10, 1792: the storming of the Tuileries ending with the arrest of Louis XVI and his ...
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Early 19th Century Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paper

Pair of 18th Century Louis XVI Watercolors in Original Giltwood Frames
Located in Dallas, TX
These antique colorful watercolors were crafted in France circa 1780, set in the original giltwood frames with glass protection, each art work depicts a courting scene with a young g...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

19th C. Louis XVI Style French Gilt Bronze Floral Garland Wall Swag Ornament
Located in Pearland, TX
A gorgeous antique 19th Century French Louis XVI style gilded bronze floral garland wall swag / cornice / appliqué / wall ornament / hanging decor. Signed by the artist on reverse. T...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Bronze

French Louis XVI 18th Century Painted and Hand Carved Wooden Boiserie Panel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XVI period painted and hand carved wooden boiseries panel from the late 18th century, with monogram, swag and fruit motifs. Born in France during the second half of the 18th century, this exquisite painted boiseries features a central monogram set inside an oval medallion, accented with a swag adorned with delicate fruits in its extremities. Ribbon-tied at the top, the carved panel charms us with its perfectly harmonious décor and soft color, framed with rais-de cœur motifs. Hung anywhere in a room, perhaps above a chest-of-drawers, side table or credenza, this Louis XVI 18th century painted...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

18th Century French Oil Painting of Nobleman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
18th Century French Oil Painting of a Nobleman. Beautiful piece purchased in France. Age appropriate piece, see detailed photos or message us with details. Excellent condition.
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Giltwood, Paint

18th Century French Trumeau Mirror with Greek Myth Painting
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French Louis XVI style trumeau mirror with a large painting depicting Venus at the Forge of Vulcan. Fine quality oil on canvas with vivid color. Gilded wood frame is ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Mirror, Giltwood

Louis XVI Gilt-Wood Console as Wall Bracket
Located in Huntington, NY
This fine & rare gilt-wood Louis XVI bracket, in the form of a console table.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

Curtain Rod in Gilded Wood with Rich Coping
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
M/1693 - Wonderful unique old curtain rod : large 194 cm. ! with a rich coping - single piece - See all sides at the bottom of the description - No comment. You can see.    
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Early 20th Century Italian Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Fruitwood

Large Framed Etching of Versailles – Vue Particulière de la Chapelle du Château
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Large framed French Etching of Versailles – Vue Particulière de la Chapelle du Château de Versailles Pair available on the Versailles Theme. From Mis en Demeure, Paris.
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Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood, Paper

Set of Four Eighteenth Century French Reverse Paintings on Glass after Pillement
Located in Essex, MA
Each in later bird’s-eye maple frames. Depicting farm animals and skaters on a pond, houses and people in daily pursuits along a waterway.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Glass

18th Century French Architectural Gilded Wall Fragment Shelf
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
As found in a French market, this gilded wall shelf is beautifully carved and ornamented with a floral and bow Louis XVI ornament throughout. This Lo...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Gold Leaf

Portrait Of A Man From The Louis XVI Period Pastel From The End Of The 18th C.
Located in Bilzen, BE
A pastel portrait of a noble man in its original frame, end of the 18th century, Unsigned 47 x 55 cm
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood, Paper

Pair of French 19th Century Belle Époque Period Mahogany Ormolu Wall Plaques
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A remarkable pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period ormolu and Mahogany decorative wall plaques signed F. Barbedienne. Each plaque is set on an elegant Mahogany backplate with fine scalloped bases and tops. The central ormolu plaques...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Ormolu

19thc Antique French Louis XVI LG Carved Wood Cherub Wall Bracket Gilt Remnants
Located in Opa Locka, FL
19thc French Antique Louis XVI style Carved Wood Large Wall Shelf Bracket. Remnants of gilt. Very beautiful cherub with wing detail. French Estate.
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1850s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

Antique Marie Antuanette Miniature Portrait Tempera Painting
Located in Malmö, SE
Fine hand-painted depiction of Marie Antoinette, wife of French King Louis XVI, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. This painting dates ca. 19th century, very lik...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Gold, Bronze

Set Elisabeth Haussard 1700-1804 18 Century Hand Colored Engraving
Located in Den Haag, NL
set 18 Century Hand colored Strawberry Engraving by Elisabeth Haussard 1700- 1804 Author: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782) "Traite des Arbres et Arbustes"" Very famous ...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paper

18th Century Botanical Prints Engravings, by P.J. Buchoz, 1776
Located in Richmond, London
A rare set of six of exceptional quality 18th century hand-colored engravings Buchoz, Pierre Joseph. Collection précieuse et enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuse...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paper

French Louis XVI Style Gilded and Painted Wood Directoire Wall Barometer
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th century French Louis XVI style gilt and painted wood barometer. While not in working order, barometer has that wonderful old 'chippy' peeling patina. The carved wood frame and g...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

French Gilt Bronze and Blue and White Jasperware Clock and Barometer Set
By Carcany Robin
Located in London, GB
A fine quality clock and barometer set by Carcany and Robin, after models on exhibition in the Louvre Museum, Paris. In the Louis XVI manner, of banjo form, the cases being in cr...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Bronze

Pair of Noble Portraits, Late 18th Century
Located in Kastrup, DK
A distinguished pair of noble portraits Likely painted by Hans Hansen (1769–1829) or another artist from Circle of Jens Juel. These portraits are masterfull...
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Late 18th Century Danish Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood

Pierre Adrien Chabal, Louis XVI Style Beauvais Tapestry Panel, France, C.1855
Located in Chatham, ON
PIERRE ADRIEN CHABAL-DUSSURGEY (1819-1902) Designer - BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY MANUFACTORY Maker - Important Antique Louis XVI style floral tapestry chair back - the floral tapestry finely woven in wool and silk threads with garlands and swags and tassels - all centered by a powder blue ground cartouche with white roses within an oval frame - suitable for framing - France - circa 1855. Excellent antique condition - minor fading and loss - areas of wear/thinning - no apparent restoration - minor stains and soiling with signs of age and use. Size/Dimensions - 20" (51 cm.) Wide x 19 1/2" (49.5 cm.) High. PIERRE ADRIEN CHABAL-DUSSURGEY - born Pierre Adrien Chabal in 1819 in Charlieu and adopting the professional name of CHABAL-DUSSURGEY - well known for his paintings and studies of flowers in gouache and oils - attended the School of Fine Arts in Lyon - exhibited at the Paris and Lyon salons - he worked with the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory and the Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory after 1849 designing tapestries, rugs and tapestry covers for seating - he designed tapestries for the Élysée Palace and worked with Empress Eugenie on furnishings for the small salon at the Élysée Palace and two salons in the palace of the Empress in Biarritz - tapestry covered furniture...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

Large Antique Italian Micro Mosaic plaque of St. Peters Square, Rome mid 1800 s
By Vatican Mosaic Studio
Located in New York, NY
A Very Large and Exceptionally Fine Quality Antique Italian Micro-Mosaic Plaque Depicting "The Saint Peter Square" in Rome. The center medallion surrounded by a beautiful Laurel Wreath in multiple shades of Green Mosaic amidst a black Belgium Marble border. The interior rounded subject depicts Saint Peter Square which is found in Rome, Italy. The entire center panel is made up of a captivating array of tesserae in a variety of shapes and colors, which create this stunning mosaic construct. When inspected from up-close, small rectangular tesserae are found in an assortment of colors, which include: white, green, blue, red, black, brown, orange etc. When the subject is seen from afar, a fantastic image of the entire Saint Peter Square can be viewed as if a painting has been created. The oil on canvas of this scene, by was sold in Christie's Auction for over $2,000,000 USD. The plaque rests in a custom ebonized and gilt square frame. This can be used as a decorative object on the wall to serve as a painting, or, be converted to a table-top by mounting it on a table stand. Rome, Circa: 1850 Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome), View of Saint Peter's Square, Rome. From Christie's Auction: Giovanni Paolo Panini arrived in Rome in 1711, painting capricci and architectural pieces in a vigorous if slightly eccentric style, and by 1719, when he was admitted to the Academy of St. Luke and the virtuosi al Pantheon, he was a rising star in the Roman art world. From around 1719-1726 he was much in demand for decorative frescoes, including quadratura, ornament and landscape and other genres, often in collaboration with figure or flower painters. During this period he worked for Cardinal Patrizi at Villa Patrizi, Cardinal Annibale Albani at Palazzo Albani (now del Drago) alle Quattro Fontane, Livio de Carolis at Palazzo de Carolis, Cardinal Alberoni at Palazzo Alberoni, Innocent XIII Conti in the Quirinal and in the library of S. Croce in Gerusalemme. In 1724 he married Caterina Gosset, the sister-in-law of Nicolas Vleughels, the director of the French Academy in Rome, to which he was admitted in 1732, and as a result he was much patronized by the French. During the 1720s he developed his figure style away from the awkwardness of his early works into one that concentrated on groups of stylishly-dressed aristocrats and skillfully modelled bystanders, sibyls and pseudo-antique figures. These he noted down in drawings (such as a sketchbook in the British Museum) that he drew upon to populate his paintings. He also began to receive commissions to design and record temporary festivals, often for French ambassadors to Rome. By the beginning of the 1730s Panini was developing a distinctive subgenre of the capriccio in which recognizable monuments are placed in imaginary topographical relationships, which were well-received in the classicizing era of Clement XII Corsini. In 1732 he was one of the panel of judges for the competition instituted by Clement for the Lateran façade, and in the following year painted an impressive View of Piazza del Quirinale for the pope. At about this time he was developing his best-known topographical subjects, interior views of St Peter's and the Pantheon, which were much in demand, to judge by the number of extant versions extending into the 1750s. By about 1734 he was beginning to attract the attention of English patrons, who ordered sets of Roman views, such as those at Marble Hill House (1738) and Castle Howard. In 1736, through Filippo Juvarra, he received important commissions from Philip V of Spain for scenes of the life of Christ in the Chinoiserie room at La Granja in Spain (1736). From as early as the 1720s he had been producing some vedute (view-paintings), initially based on prototypes by Gaspar van Wittel, and he developed the genre in subsequent decades in works that would include impressive panoramic views of the Forum or Palatine, although his staple genre was the capriccio rather than the veduta. He also expanded his repertory of church interiors, adding such churches as S. Paolo fuori le Mura and S. Agnese in Piazza Navona, as well as church interiors recording special events. His son by his first marriage, Giuseppe (1718-1805), began to support him in architectural and festival design projects. By the 1740s Panini was at the peak of his powers, and evidently had a considerable workshop helping him meet demand, especially of capricci to be used as overdoors and other decorative installations. Giovanni Paolo was successful in elevating himself socially above the usual artisanal status of genre painters, and would sometimes include a self-portrait in paintings commissioned by the great and powerful. He also appears to have been successful financially, and owned a substantial palazzo in via Monserrato. He increasingly concentrated on important commissions, such as a view of the Lottery in Piazza Montecitorio (London, National Gallery, 1743-1744), the designs for the festival decorations for the birth of the Dauphin in Palazzo Farnese (Waddesdon Manor, 1751), or the view of an imaginary picture gallery housing the collection of Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga (Wadsworth Atheneum, 1749). In the mid-1750s he received an important series of commissions from the Duc de Choiseul, French ambassador to Rome and soon to become one of the most powerful men in France, that included his best-known compositions, Ancient Rome (Roma Antica) and Modern Rome (Roma Moderna). These large paintings, of which there are three sets (in Boston and Stuttgart, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Louvre) represent imaginary picture galleries based on the Valenti Gonzaga composition but hung with what purport to be Panini's own vedute of ancient and modern sites respectively (with corresponding pieces of sculpture). These paintings sum up the eighteenth-century canon of the greatest works of architecture and sculpture, and the equivalence between modern and ancient Rome. By this time Panini was being assisted by his son by his second marriage, Francesco (1748-1800), who was a skilled draughtsman and painter who continued his father's work after his death in 1765. The Farnborough Hall paintings The Piazza S. Pietro and the Campidoglio are important vedute by Panini painted in 1750 and originally installed, with other works by Panini and Canaletto, in the seat of the Holbech family, Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire (National Trust). Farnborough Hall had been inherited in 1717 by William Holbech (circa 1699-1771), who is documented on the Grand Tour in Florence, Rome and Venice from late 1732 until his return home at the end of April 1734 with his brother Hugh. Holbech is said to have gone on the Grand Tour to recover from a broken heart and to have spent a considerable time there prior to these documented appearances. During his time in Rome he acquired two Paninis, which were seen by an anonymous antiquary around 1746, who referred to various sculptures "all brought from Rome with two pictures, one of the Rotunda, and the other of diverse buildings by Panino" (British Library, Add. MS 6230, pp. 31-32). The Rotunda (the Pantheon) is a painting now in a private collection in New York, and is signed and dated 1734. The Diverse Buildings, which was probably one of Panini's capricci, has not been identified. On his Grand Tour Holbech seems also to have acquired two Canalettos, although they are not mentioned by the antiquary, who may only have had eyes for things Roman. In about 1746-1747, Holbech remodelled the house by creating a Saloon, now the dining room, at the back of the house. This room, the entrance hall, the staircase, library and closet were stuccoed by William Perritt of York, and a bill for this work dated 14 November 1750 survives (or survived until recently; G. Beard, Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain, London, 1975, p. 233). The two Canalettos acquired on the Grand Tour were installed in the Saloon, together with two new works commissioned from Canaletto, who was then in England and working nearby at Warwick Castle in 1748. The two Paninis acquired on the Grand Tour may have been installed in the Library, as Alastair Laing assumes (op. cit.), while three new works commissioned from Panini in Rome were placed in the Hall and Saloon: the Piazza S. Pietro for the overmantel in the Hall (fig. 1), the Campidoglio as the overmantel in the Saloon (fig. 2), and an Interior of St Peter's (now in Detroit) (fig. 3) on the adjacent wall facing the windows. Two of the Canalettos flanked the Campidoglio, while the others were on the opposite wall. The Interior of St Peter's was therefore effectively the fifth member of the Canaletto set, distinct from the two overmantels. Holbech's installation of his Canalettos and Paninis in fixed stucco frames was unusual for England in 1750, and had probably been inspired by what he had seen on his Grand Tour in Northern Italy, where fixed stucco installations of canvases were common in the 1720s and 1730s (Cornforth, II, p. 51). The Campidoglio and the Interior of St Peter's are both signed and dated 1750, a date that corresponds to the payments for the stucco. The commission for the new Paninis would have been made through an agent, possibly the Roman dealer in antiquities Belisario Amidei from whom some of the antique busts in the Hall were acquired in 1745, who was also a picture dealer; or perhaps the painter Pietro Berton, who on 7 December 1750 shipped a Panini to England. The paintings were sold to Savile Gallery in 1929 and replaced by copies by one Mohammed Ayoub. The four Canalettos were exhibited at Savile Gallery in 1930 and entered the London art trade, finding their way at various times to Augsburg, Melbourne, Ottawa and a private collection. The Paninis seem to have been resold immediately to Knoedler & Co. in New York. When the stucco was removed from the library by Holbech's great-grandson, another William Holbech, shortly after his succession in 1812, the Interior of the Pantheon and the Diverse Buildings may have been taken down. Although there is no record of either painting being at Farnborough subsequently, the Interior of the Pantheon at least must have remained there, since it appeared at Knoedler's in 1930 at about the same time as the other Paninis, and was presumably acquired at the same time from the same source. The Campidoglio was a rare subject for Panini: this is the only known extant version, apart from fictive versions in the Metropolitan Museum (1757) (figs. 4) and Louvre (1759) versions of his Roma Moderna composition (but not in the first Boston version of 1757). Probably Holbech insisted on the choice of subject in order to represent the centre of Rome's civic administration to complement the religious one of St Peter's. The Campidoglio may have been of interest to English patrons because it represented the seat of a form of government they were more comfortable with than the papacy. For example, Canaletto painted the subject, together with English subjects, for Thomas Hollis, 'the most bigoted of all Republicans' in 1755, who may have wanted to 'represent London as the heir to the legacy of Ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy' (see Michael Liversidge and Jane Farrington, eds., Canaletto and England, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, London, 1993, p. 25). Canaletto also painted the subject for Sir Richard Neave, Ist Baronet (1731-1814) of Dagnam Park, Essex, at the end of his English stay or shortly afterwards (i.e. 1755-1766) (sold, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2002, lot 8). Like Holbech, Neave mixed Venetian and Roman subjects, but his Roman subjects steer clear of St Peter's: the others were the Piazza del Quirinale and Piazza Navona. While Holbech had gone to both Venice and Rome and commissioned views of both cities, Rome sets the keynote for his decoration: antique busts line the Hall, and its religious and civic centres are the overmantels in the Hall and Saloon respectively. The Piazza S. Pietro The Piazza S. Pietro shows the piazza much as it appears today, apart from the absence of Valadier's late eighteenth-century clocks on the towers. Bernini's colonnade (1656-1667), both ends of which are visible, reaches out its arms to embrace the viewer. In the center of the piazza is the obelisk moved by Sixtus V in 1586 from the left side of the church where it had formed part of the Circus of Nero. On either side are two fountains, the one on the right by Carlo Maderno (1613) and the one on the left created to match it by Carlo Fontana in 1677. Beyond is the rectangular forecourt to the church, the piazza retta, leading to the façade by Maderno, completed in 1610, and the dome by Michelangelo, Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana. To the right of the façade the roof of the Sistine Chapel is just visible, followed by the Cortile di S. Damaso, the palace of the Swiss Guards and the palace of Paul V. A Cardinal is being driven in a carriage across the piazza at the right in the direction of the Borgo Nuovo and Ponte S. Angelo with his blue-liveried retinue and subsidiary carriages. Unlike the later versions of the subject that depict the Duke de Choiseul, there seems to be no intent to portray any particular cardinal: the procession of a cardinal here is presented simply as characteristic activity within the piazza. Various groups of figures, including well-dressed women in brightly colored dresses, Swiss Guards, priests, gentlemen, idlers and a pilgrim are distributed around the piazza. In the foreground an imaginary heap of fallen masonry provides visual interest in an otherwise dead space. Panini painted the Piazza S. Pietro on a number of occasions, and his works falls into two types, one with the viewpoint shifted slightly to left of the axis, as in the Farnborough Hall version, and one with it shifted slightly to the right. The first type is based on a composition by Gaspar van Wittel, of which there are numerous versions from 1684 until 1721 (Fig. 9 van Wittel). The work by Panini that seems closest to Van Wittel and therefore probably the earliest is the version in the Circolo della Caccia, Rome, which has been dated to the second half of the 1730s, but is probably a decade or so earlier. Another, on the London art market in 2002-2009, and a version with workshop participation at Sotheby's, Milan (20 November 2007, lot 137) and currently on the art market in Rome, are closer to an important painting in Toledo (Arisi no. 308) that is signed and dated 1741 (fig. 6). Van Wittel employed a wide format (about 2:1), showed both of the end faces of the colonnade almost to their full extent, and introduced the theme of a heap of masonry to enliven the foreground. His choice of perspective implies a viewpoint located in the small piazza between the Borgo Nuovo and Borgo Vecchio, now the Piazza Pio XII at the top of the Via della Conciliazione. From this viewpoint a building at the left tended to interfere with the view of the end of the left arm, as can be seen from the Nolli map...
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1850s Italian Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Glass

18th Century French Revolution Framed Madame De La Fayette Folding Evantail
Located in Germantown, MD
A 1789 French Revolution Patriotism fighting symbol by the famous french Comtess M De La Fayette. Révolution Française: M. de la Fayette offre ses...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Other

French Louis XVI Young Woman Portrait
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI (18/19th Cent) portrait oil painting of young woman wearing a blue dress holding a pink ribbon with flowers in her hair in a gold carved frame (style of NATTIER)
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Gold

Portrait Of A Scholar, Oil On Framed Canvas, 18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Portrait of a scholar, standing, in indoor attire, his hand resting on a large book (with a title that seems to be written in Hebrew?) Oil on canvas from the 18th century, probably ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Paint

18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry “Colin-Maillard” or Blind Man’s Buff Scene
Located in Dallas, TX
This large and elegant antique tapestry was woven in Aubusson, France, circa 1760. The handwoven scene depicts a lively group of figures engaged in the popular 18th-century game Coli...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Pair of Louis XVI Style Carved Gilt Accent Neoclassical Wall Panels
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 57 1/2 in W: 24 3/4 in D: 1 in Elevate your interior with this stunning pair of 20th-century Louis XVI style carved wood and gilt accent wall panels, exquisitely cr...
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20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

18th Century French Louis XVI Period Gilded Barometer by Evangelista Torricelli
By Evangelista Torricelli
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gold, large antique French Louis XVI period barometer, signed by Torricelli in gilded wood and of oval shape with original scientific illustrations, in good condition. The detailed wall décor piece is consisting its original glass. Framed with gilt foliate trim and important pediment. Minor fading, due to age. Wear consistent with age and use, circa 1750, France. The Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Giltwood

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Trumeau Mirror
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Louis XVI style trumeau mirror with a sepia toned oil painting depicting a pastoral courtship scene. Pale green painted pine frame with gilded border trim. Orig...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Mirror, Pine, Giltwood, Canvas, Paint

Set of 4 Tapestries Signed by Beauvais Manufacture aft. F.Boucher, France, 1770
Located in PARIS, FR
Each panel : Each panel = Height : 206 cm (81,1 in.) ; Width : 56 cm (22 in.) ; Depth : 4 cm (1,5 in.) Beautiful set of four tapestries representing children’s pastorals, woven by the Beauvais Manufacture on cardboards by F. Boucher, inspired by his serie of paintings delivered around 1751 to the marquise de Pompadour for her Château de Crécy...
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Giltwood

Large Framed French Etching of Versailles, Le Bassin d’Encelade
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Large Framed French Etching of Versailles – Le Bassin d’Encelade Pair of Versailles themed prints available. From Mis en Demeure, Paris.
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Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood, Paper

18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry with Pastoral Landscape and Goats
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a large wall with this elegant, nearly square handwoven tapestry from Aubusson, France, circa 1760. The antique wall hanging depicts a tranquil countryside scene complete wi...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

18th Century French Louis XVI Musical Trophy Boiserie Panel in Carved Oak Frame
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand carved during the reign of Louis XVI, this linden wood and oak plaque was originally a boiserie panel that would have adorned the wall of a French manor...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood, Oak

Pair Of Louis XVI Giltwood And Marble Wall Brackets
Located in Essex, MA
Each with a removable brown and white serpentine marble top supported on a gessoed and water gilded carved oak and stylized palm leave brackets. The gilding is dry and subtle with gr...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Marble

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Watercolor Painting in Its Original Frame
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful small scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. watercolor painting in its original ormolu frame. The painting titled Triomphe de Bacchus (Triumph of Bacchus) depicts wonderfully executed personages celebrating with a beautiful maiden in a flowing white gown and a handsome gentleman holding a cornucopia and draped in a red cloak riding in a chariot pulled by a lion with a delightful winged cherub pulling the reins. A lioness is walking by their side with a charming young boy draped in grape vines and grape leaves playing a flute and a flying winged cherub leading the way carrying a basket of grapes...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Ormolu

18th Century French Set of 6 Louis XVI Theater Panels
Located in New Orleans, LA
Most recently taken out of a Paris apartment, this set of 6 18th Century French theater panels creates a dramatic look for a bedroom or living room. The set includes two panels with ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood

Allegory Of Africa, Framed Fixe-sous-verre, 19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Large fixed under glass painting, allegorical representation of Africa by the portrait of a black woman, richly adorned with jewels and a turban on her head. Frame (perhaps Naple...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Glass

19th Century French Hand Carved Wall Decorative Panels in Louis XVI Style
Located in Sofia, BG
19th Century French hand carved and hand painted in light beige wall decorative panels in Louis XVI style in very good authentic condition with no restorations.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

19th Century French Large Decorative Hand Carved Gilt Wood Element or Headboard
Located in Sofia, BG
Exceptional large massive hand carved and hand painted decorative element which was placed over a grand fireplace more than 150 years ago. There were no restorations so far and it is...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Wood

Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer - Oval Mezzotint, c.1880s
Located in Savannah, GA
Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (Dutch, 1839-1902) Courting scene mezzotint, circa 1880s. McClees Galleries, Philadelphia label. sight: 13 ½ by 16 ½ inches frame: 18 ½ by 23 inches
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1880s Dutch Antique Louis XVI Wall Decorations

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

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