Rococo Wall Decorations
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
Large Drawing in the Style of Guardi, Italian School
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Ink
$1,560 Sale Price
35% Off
Copy of a Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait painting in a classical style of the Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as a dancer; Three of four in a series
Category
Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Italian Rococo Style 19th Century Painted Fragment with Carved Acanthus Leaves
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Rococo style painted wood architectural fragment from the late 19th century, with carved acanthus leaves, volutes and distressed finish. Created in Italy during the later ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
17th Century Carved Wood and Polychrome Angel Bracket
Located in New Orleans, LA
A striking hand-carved wooden figure of a wingless angel. Originally crafted as a decorative wall bracket. The figure is richly detailed with flowing drapery painted in deep blue and...
Category
17th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Pair of Italian Rococo Style Life-Size Hanging Cupids
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Rococo style (18th Cent) carved gilt wood winged life size hanging cupid figures.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Italian Rococo Carved Pilaster Wall Plaques
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Italian Rococo (mid-18th Century) carved silver gilt pilaster wall plaques with bird and floral carving under an Ionic capital pediment (PRICED ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Silver Leaf
$18,000 / set
Set of Two Framed French Engraved Art Prints
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a set two framed French engraved art prints. The first one is titled “La Conversation Interessante”. It depicts an 18th century group of lover’...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$455 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a bustling town on a canal and townspeople in route to board a gondola in the foreground, alongside several gondoliers waiting nearb...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
18th Century French Pastel Portrait by Saintin Francois Jozan
Located in Sarasota, FL
18th century pastel painting by French artist Saintin Francois Jozan (1797-1867). The painting is a portrait of two young women, one gazes directly at the viewer while the other look...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century, French Painting with Pastoral Scene, Circle of Jean-Baptiste Huet
By Jean-Baptiste Huet
Located in IT
Pastoral Scene, French Painter, Circle of Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745–1811), Late 18th Century
Dimensions: Frame W 103 x H 108.5 x D 4 cm; Canvas W 90.5 x H 95.5 cm
The painting, exec...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Italian Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Venetian-style (20th Century) painting of a canal busy with gondolas winding through a town of classical architecture cast partly in shadow, under a blue sky. Painted on rect...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Italian Scarf with 18th Century Gold-Leaf Wood Motif on Canvas
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Vintage Italian scarf decorated with a distressed 18th century Italian hand-carved, gold-leaf wood motif pressed to canvas and surrounded with an antique coordinating Italian church ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Venetian Canal and Gondolas Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of gondolas in a jade green canal lined with classic architecture under a cloudy blue sky on unframed, rectangular canvas.
Canvas is w...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Arched Bridge over Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a long, arched bridge stretching across a canal filled with boats and gondolas of all sizes, on unframed,...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pair French Engravings of Genre Scenes in Walnut Frames, mid 18th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Each engraving depicting a typical street and genre scene, respectively, both in antique walnut frames
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Doge
s Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Venetian-style (20th century) painting capturing the 14th century gothic architecture of the famed Doge Palace from the side, while figures move throughout, gondolas are moor...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Charming Pair of 19th Century Italian Giltwood Brackets, Putti Supporting Shell
Located in Buchanan, MI
Charming pair of 19th century Italian giltwood brackets, putti supporting shell shelf. Great color, patination. Confirm measurements. Excellent condition
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
19th Century Italian Ecclesiastical "Chiesa Borsa" with Black Crystal Points
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
19th century Italian, hand-made chiesa borsa (church offering purse) with ecclesiastical trim and adorned with coordinating irradiated black crystal points. Available with or without...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal
Pair of intaglio engravings - Francesco Zuccarelli / Joseph Wagner - Venez
Located in Vicenza, IT
Elegant pair of engravings on virgin watermarked paper, bearing "AV" mark, executed in intaglio technique. The works depict evocative pastoral scenes inspired by the paintings of Fra...
Category
18th Century European Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Prophet Zachariah, Late 18th Century Painted on an Ornate Solid Slab of Wood
Located in North Miami, FL
18th Century Russian Orthodox icon of the prophet Zachariah painted on an ornate solid slab of wood with an incorporated gold gilded frame that has been c...
Category
18th Century Russian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Views of the Grand Canal
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Drawings, one representing San Geremia on the Grand Canal, the other La Salute on the Grand Canal. Both drawings are in a style evocative of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) specialist o...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$3,160 Sale Price / item
20% Off
18th Century Cherub Head Sketch Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Venetian school, 18th century
Study with the head of a cherub
Measures: Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm - with frame 54.5 x 49.5 cm
The present qualifies as a study or preparatory sketch by virtue of the structural and figural layout; by reason of formal and substantial evidence, it can be traced back to the mature neo-Venetian style, which in the eighteenth century had begun to produce figurations of extreme typological pathetism and formal expressionism. The contemporary painting experience of Tiepolo commanded the Venetian art scene, once the lesson of Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) was overruled.
The delicate putto head offered here, in which a cherub is recognizable due to the happy iconographic solution of the wings placed under the angel's face, is outlined with a vigorous vitalism. A foreshortened point of view illuminates his face in a grazing way, probing his features with strong shadows and with a youthful blush that orange his cheeks. The veristic perfection with which the artist arranges the semblant is of marvelous expressiveness. The eyes are swollen with intensity, and together with the general setting of the head they denounce a conscious reflection on the physiognomy, peculiar within the emerging context of Venetian painting.
The painting in question is affected by the large-scale productions, both monumental and perspective, at the time in vogue in the territory of the Serenissima. Conceived through a vision from below, the portrait reveals from the Venetian Rococo that particular predilection for the open and clear, airy ways, denounced in the first instance by Tiepolo. The conscious detachment from the Cortona-style decorativism and from the repeated layout solutions then in vogue allow us to approach the present to the production of Francesco Fontebasso...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Framed Victorian Needle / Bobbin Lace
Located in Basildon, GB
19th Century Framed Victorian Needle / Bobbin Lace artwork, likely to be Point de Gaze, depicting a couple in elaborate 18th-century-style clothing—likely inspired by Rococo or Georg...
Category
1860s European Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Leather, Cotton, Glass, Wood
$2,877 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Italian Marble Plaque with Cherub Scene, in the Manner of Clodion
Located in Miami, US
This exquisite 19th-century Italian marble plaque features a finely carved relief of playful cherubs, rendered in the Rococo style reminiscent of the celebrated French sculptor Clodi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
Robert Gardelle Signed Portrait Swiss Oil Painting, 18th Century, Switzerland
Located in New York, NY
Robert Gardelle portrait Swiss oil painting, 18th century, Switzerland. A portrait by painted Robert Gardelle. Signed a tergo / on the back R. Gardelle...
Category
Early 18th Century Swiss Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Gold Leaf Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with gold leaf shells and gold-plated crystals on a hand painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold leaf powders used by restorers in Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries. They are no longer available. The powders coordinate with the gold leaf shells. The 18th century fragment is originally from Liguria.
The Italian artifact...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Elestial Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian scroll fragment with elestial quartz crystals on a hand-painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold powders ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Two Antique Kpm Painted Porcelain Plaques in Giltwood Frames
Located in London, GB
This pair of portraits are of oval form and depict the half-length figures of a young boy and girl. The boy has fair, shoulder-length hair and wears a white shirt and green-lined bro...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Pair of Dresden Sitzendorf Porcelain Wall Lights, Germany, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
This pair of Rococo style porcelain wall lights was produced by the German factory Dresden Sitzendorf and dates to the late 19th century, circa 1880. Executed in finely crafted porce...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th century hand painted self-portrait, wooden frame
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, AR
Hand painted with great delicacy, based on the self-portrait. Oil on a richly decorated Rococo style gilded wooden frame.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Italian Gilt Brackets Modelled as Cherubs
Located in Montreal, QC
Each is modelled as a giltwood cherub with outstretched wings supporting a shell. They are a true pair, one left and one right. Cherubs by definition have wings, Putti have none. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
19th Century Four Italian Oil on Panel with Allegory of the Four Elements
Located in IT
19th century four Italian oil on panel with allegory of the four elements
Dimensions with frame: cm H 34.5 x L 25; only the table: cm H 29 x L 20.5
The funny oil on panel, by an artist active in Piedmont, in the north of Ital, in the first half of the 19th century, represent the allegory of the four elements of the Earth.
They are inspired by the group of four etching prints of circa 1730, made to a design by Rococo painter Jacopo Amigoni (Naples 1682- Paris 1752) and engraved in Venice by Joseph Wagner...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Italian Painting Architectural Capriccio with Caio Cestio Pyramid after Panini
Located in IT
19th century, Italian Painting Architectural Capriccio with the Pyramid of Caio Cestio, Roman painter, after Giovanni Paolo Panini, unsigned.
Dimensions: cm H 48 x W 63.5, frame H 6...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
18th Century, Italian Painting Depicting Landscape with Watermill and Characters
Located in IT
18th century, Italian painting depicting landscape with watermill and characters
Oil on canvas; Measurements: frame cm L 103.5 x H 127 x P 5; painting L 93 x H 117.5
The painting...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Circa 1765, Pair of Rococo
Chippendale
Gilt Mirrors
Located in North Miami, FL
Pair of English 18th century (circa 1765) rococo (Chippendale) gilt mirrors oval shaped framed with elaborate hand-carved frames with c scrolls, acanthus and foliage.
Category
18th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
$30,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"The Gallant Pastor" after François Boucher, 19th century
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is a copy of the "Gallant Shepherd" painted by François Boucher for the audience room of Prince Hercule-Mériadec, Duke of Rohan, on the first floor of the Hôtel de Soub...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Grand Tour Style 20th Century White Domed Church on Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a white classical, domed church, resembling the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, directly on a canal filled with gondolas in transit....
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo Wall Shelves
Located in North Miami, FL
A pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo carved wood and gold gilded wall shelves. These are finely carved from wood and have a delicate curled scrol...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
$12,950 / set
German KPM Porcelain Plaque of an Interior Bedroom Scene
Located in London, GB
German KPM porcelain plaque of an interior bedroom scene
German, late 19th century
Dimensions: Frame height 38cm, width 44cm, plaque height 26.5cm, width 31cm
This fine porcelai...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Antique Limoges Enamel Portrait of Woman and Lap Dog
Located in London, GB
The beautiful enamel plaque was crafted in Limoges, a town in northern France. Limoges has long been associated with the production of high quality enamel wares. While to begin with, in the 12th Century, the town was famous for its applied enamel pieces, religious icons, for example, which were crafted in metal with champlevé enamel ornament, Limoges later, in the 15th century, began to paint onto enamel, creating plaques, plates and ewers, which were both religious and secular in character. These local techniques were revived in the mid-19th century, when items like this enamel portrait painting were produced.
This enamel portrait is a half-length depiction of a young woman. While her body is faced slightly to the side, she turns her head to look out directly at the viewer. The woman wears a fine, light pink gown...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel
Two 19th Century Limoges Enamel Portrait Plaques
Located in London, GB
These elegant enamel plaques was painted in Limoges, a town in the south-west of France. While Limoges was highly regarded for its painted enamel wares in the 15th Century, in the following periods there was a decline in production. In the mid-19th Century, however, items like this pair began to be created, reviving the techniques of enamel painting that were perfected in the medieval period.
The plaques depict two women, both with wavy blonde shoulder-length hair, and similar facial features. The women may be sisters, possibly even twins. One woman wears a pale pink dress...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel
$3,837 / set
Four Decorative Porcelain Wall Brackets of Satyr Form
Located in London, GB
These wall brackets have been beautifully modelled and painted by hand. They take the form of satyrs, who were woodland gods in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. They are traditiona...
Category
Early 20th Century European Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Portrait in Faience Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Highly unusual faience frame with maker mark holds a finely detailed portrait of a woman of importance for the time. Information is listed on back (see p...
Category
18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience, Velvet, Paint
Large original old oil painting from around 1900 with a magnificent frame
Located in Berlin, DE
Exclusive penthouse liquidation from Berlin Mitte.
Offered here is a large original old oil painting from around 1900 with a magnificent frame.
It is a copy of the famous painter Ti...
Category
20th Century French Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Pair of Venetian Rococo Mecca Lacquered Painted Wall Brackets
Located in New York, NY
Rare pair of wall brackets, highly stylized lacquered carving.
Italian, 18th century.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Rococo wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo wall decorations 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 wall decorations created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, fabric and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo wall decorations 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 wall decorations, popular names associated with this style include Interi, Aubusson Manufacture, Europa Antiques, and Henri Victor Lesur. 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 wall decorations differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $195 and tops out at $345,000 while the average work can sell for $3,600.
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