Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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
Superbe Pair of French 19th Century Iron Gates
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Superbe pair of French 19th century iron gates.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Elegant 19th Century Vintage French Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A delicate Louis XVI style, 19th century vintage fireplace surround in a bicolor Burgundy hard stone/marble. Quite an elegant mantle.
Measures:
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Limestone
Fine European Antique Fireplace Surround in Carrara Marble
Located in Beervelde, BE
An elegant original vintage fireplace mantel (fireplace) with some nice and discrete carving on front and jambs.
Measures:
150 cm EW 59.06”....
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Carrara Marble
Classic Belgian Decorative Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A Classic Belgian vintage fireplace surround in Rouge Griotte marble from the 19th century. Rouge Griotte was used in many historical landmarks.
Measures:
166 cm exterior width 65....
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of Bronze Mounted Louis XVI French Boulle Marquetry Style Planters
Located in Toledo, OH
An elegant pair of Bronze mounted Louis XVI French Planters. The black lacquer planters have beautiful bronze mounts and boulle style marquetry ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Bronze
19th Century Ormolu Mounted Pedestal after Jean Henri Riesener
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This wall-side gilt bronze mounted pedestal with stepped veined marble top with canted front corners, above the rectangular upper section centred by a Mercury mask and sunburst with crossed lower branches, the angles with an acanthus-cast scrolled volute hung with foliate festoons, the sides inset with foliate swags, above the tapering upright, the paneled front cast with a flower-filled vase flanked by scrolling foliage and floral swags, with paneled parquetry sides, on lion-paw feet and shaped plinth, on toupie feet.
This pedestal is a copy of the celebrated model made circa 1785 by Jean-Henri Riesener...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble, Ormolu
18th Century Louis XVI French White Marble Fireplace with Porphyry Insert
Located in Rome, IT
A fine French Louis XVI white marble fireplace shaped frieze
paneled with porphyry marble.
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Chenets
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine pair of gilt bronze chenets depicting a boy and a little girl warming up their hands by the fire. Exquisite quality.
Dimensions: Height 12", width 10", depth 5"
CW4720.
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Wide French Classic Limestone Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is a honey color antique fireplace surround with the greek key detail in the center of the front in Beaujolais bicolor Burgundy hard limestone.
Perfect for a timeless cosy French interior design. We can provide the Hearth in original antique Burgundy flooring with ancient surfaces...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Large Painted and Carved Wood Neoclassical Planter
Located in Pembroke, MA
An unusually large, and deeply sculpted and painted wood planter or jardinière, in the Louis XVI style (late 19th century). The planter appears to have been stripped of some coats of...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Wood, Gesso
Frame Made of Ancient Stone
Located in Forte Dei Marmi, IT
Frame Made of Ancient Stone, Perfect for the edge of The Pool. Aged from 18th - 19th Century,
This is Authentic Provencal Recycled Limestone Floors,
Price indicate is per ( one pice...
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Timeless French Antique Fireplace Surround in Limestone
Located in Beervelde, BE
This refined Louis XVI period antique fireplace mantle from the Burgundy region has been built in hard stone with Brêche Violet marble inlay.
Measurements:
145 cm EW 57.08",
105 ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone, Marble
Antique French Louis XVI Limestone Fireplace with Geometric Carvings
Located in Casteren, NL
This beautiful French fireplace is carved from hard limestone. The frieze is decorated with an ancient geometrical Greek Meander pattern. Meander of mean...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Antique Victorian French Marble Fireplace Surround
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A rare and very pleasing antique Louis XVI Brocatelle marble fireplace surround, now fully restored and polished- ready for installation.
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
18th Century French Classic Library Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A original library fireplace mantel out of a wood pannel room in a porfier stone/marble from the Louis XVI period. Straight lines for a timely interior. Th...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Stone
18th Century Fine Royal French Saracolin Marble Vintage Fireplace Mantel
Located in Beervelde, BE
This original 18th century Royal French Saracolin marble fireplace surround is from the Louis XVI period. It has rounded corners and an exceptionally rich...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
18th Century Red Stone Chique Classic Vintage Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A fine French Louis XVI period chimneypiece with marble inlay from the 18th century. The little shade difference on jambs gives it a rustic look.
Measures:
161 cm exterior width ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Antique Stone Floors, Original Provencal Flooring, Original Age 18th Century
Located in Forte Dei Marmi, IT
We have available the best Stock of Authentic Reclaimed French Stone Flooring, famous "Dalle de Bourgogne",age 15th - 16th Century ( 5 and 3 cm thick ) 1,2 and 2 inc. Large Opus, ran...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Fine French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Carved White Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fine French 19th century Louis XVI style carved white marble fireplace mantel surround. The apron with carvings of musical instruments and allegorical to abundance with fruits and ri...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
French Copper Lavabo with Brass Accents on Later Board, 18th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
18th century French copper lavabo with brass accents on later board.
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18th Century Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Copper
Two 18th Century Architectural Fragment Panels With Putties
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Pair of 18th Century painted architectural fragment panels with putties, one of the panels has Louis Seize decorations
The panels were ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wood
French Regency Carved Marble Mantel Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Located in New York, NY
Hearth not included. Carved earth tone dark brown and grey marble Louis XVI French Regency mantel from the early 20th century. This petite mantel was one...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
18th Century Fine French Antique Fireplace Surround in Marble and Stone
Located in Beervelde, BE
Fantastic vintage fireplace mantle in deep red burgundy hard stone with statuary marble inlay. Very fine details on the fronton. Perfect for a warm and cosy interior. Elegant and chi...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone, Statuary Marble
Pair of French 18th Century Brass and Iron Fireplace Andirons
Located in Buchanan, NY
A handsome pair of late 18th-early 19th century French andirons with double iron polished supports and cast brass or bronze decorative fronts. The andirons have recently been polishe...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Brass, Iron
Breche Violette Fireplace with Decorative Ormolu
Located in London, GB
A good quality French Louis XVI style fireplace in Breche Violette marble. The scrolled, stop-fluted jambs adorned with acanthus leaf Ormolu, surmounte...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Breccia Marble
Fine European Antique Stone Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This Bicolor Corton marble stone fireplace surround is from the center of the French Burgundy region. A small Classic and fine decorative elem...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Carved Giltwood Oval Fireplace Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stunning French Louis XVI style antique carved giltwood oval fireplace screen. The piece is richly carved with floral accents, and three Greek key and a...
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Late 18th Century Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wood
A Pair of Louis XVI Doré and Patinated Bronze Chenets
Located in Norwood, NJ
A pair of Louis XVI style gilt and patinated bronze Chenets/Andirons. Fine quality pair of 19th century Louis XVI Style French chenets. Doré and patinated bronze. Fine casting. Found...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Gold Plate, Bronze
Fine French Classic Room Fireplace Surround in Bicolor Hard Limestone
Located in Beervelde, BE
A fine 18th century French chimney piece. This is a fine Louis XVI period small bourguignon original antique fireplace surround from the Dijon region. It was installed in a paneled r...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Antique French Louis XV Style Bronze Pendulum Mantel Clock with Flowery Decor
Located in Lisse, NL
Good size and wonderful quality, heavy bronze clock.
This late 19th century work of time telling art is in very good condition and the design is both elegant and stylish. We have cl...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Enamel, Bronze
Fine Quality Breche Violette Marble Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A mid-19th century French Louis XVI style fireplace in Breche Violette marble. The shaped, stop-fluted jambs surmounted by carved square paterae...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Breccia Marble
Louis XVI Style French Classic Limestone Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A petite fine and delicate vintage fireplace surround in Louis XVI style of the early 19th century. The Burgundy honey color hard limestone is polished and has a silky feeling when t...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Antique Sandstone Louis XVI Fireplace Mantel
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Antique Sandstone Louis XVI Fireplace Mantel
A nice soft toned French Louis XVI Fireplace mantel in a Fine quality sandstone.
The paneled frieze is ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Sandstone
Unusual Louis XVI Style Doré Bronze Figural Fire Place Fender, E. F. Caldwell
Located in New York, NY
A very rare and unusual Louis XVI style doré bronze figural fire place fender attributed to E. F. Caldwell and Company NY. The double handelled central Urn with rams heads, having a ...
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1890s American Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
19Th Century, Pair of French Louis XVI style gilt bronze Fireplace Chenets
Located in IT
19Th Century, Pair of French Louis XVI style gilt bronze Fireplace Chenets,
The pair of Fireplace Chenets was made in the Louis XVI style in the fist half of the 19th century. The ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
French Original Created by Nature Color Stone Vintage Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A fine French, Burgundy bicolor hard stone vintage mantle in Louis XVI style of the 19th century. A fine little mantle for a timeless interior with a tw...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Authentic Provencal Stone Flooring, Aged from 18th-19th Century
Located in Forte Dei Marmi, IT
Authentic Provencal Stone and Belgium Flooring Aged from 18th - 19th Century,
Available Stock 430 soft, ( 40 m2 ) size 15.7 x 15.7 inch. ( 40cm x 40 cm ). 0,8 inch, ( 2 cm ), thi...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Lava, Stone
Waldorf Astoria Marble Mantel Louis XVI Style Regency Carved Brown Marble
Located in New York, NY
Hearth not included. This mantel, original to the M Suite on the 28th Floor of the Waldorf Astoria Towers is carved in a Louis XVI Regency style from earth tone brown marble. Floral ...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Louis XVI Painted and Gilt Decorated Tole Cachepot, c1780
Located in valatie, NY
Louis XVI painted and gilt decorated tole cachepot, c1780, decorated in polychrome with a Watteauesque or Angelica Kauffman Neoclassical scene of figures and putti in a landscape...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Gold Leaf, Tin
18th Century French Country Chique Limestone Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is a perfect fireplace surround for a paneled room. The mantel (fireplace) has a nice patina and very deep jambs. It is in great condition and not broken. A different element fo...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
French Wrought Iron Fire Place Guard with Flanking Candle Holders, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
French wrought iron fire place guard with flanking candleholders, spiral columns, scrolled flanking spades with a centered flu-de-lee, two faceted decorative spikes, and terminating ...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Wrought Iron
French Louis XVI Style Pavonazzo Marble Antique Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A good quality Louis XVI style antique fireplace in Italian Pavonazzo marble. The stop fluted jambs surmounted by carved panels with flowers and tied ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
18th Century Petite Grez Stone French Country Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This 18th century Grez stone fireplace mantel (fireplace) with remains of the polychrome and original patina consists of 3 solid blocks. This mantel is from the Louis XVI period. It ...
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Reclaimed Limestone flooring Black & White CASTLE
Located in Forte Dei Marmi, IT
Provencal French Antique Limestone Flooring ,Authentic Reclaimed Limestone Age of the 20th Century, 3 cm thick ( 1.2 inch ) the square-shape...
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1910s French Vintage Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
18th Century French Cosy Library Vintage Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is original Louis XVI period antique fireplace mantel (fireplace) has straight lines and a great patina. Perfect to create a cosy room. This fits in a country as well as in a mo...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Louis XVI Style Carved Giltwood Panel or Overdoor Fragment
Located in Nashville, TN
Rope turned pattern with water and matte gilding .Nicks , chips and minor losses and subsequent touchups. Red bole bleeding through gilding in places.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wood
Impressive Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Pedestal
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive good quality 19th century marble topped, marquetry inlaid pedestal, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foli...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Fireback or Backsplash Showing a Three Star Commander
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
A nice sized cast iron fireback showing a three star commander surrounded with clovers.
Great original patina, nice condition.
Ready to be installed i...
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19th Century European Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Berlin Iron
Louis XVI Mantel Waldorf Astoria Hotel Marble French Regency
Located in New York, NY
1890s French Regency Louis XVI style burgundy marble mantel with heavy gray and white veining and decorative carvings along the header. This mantel was one of a group of antique mant...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
Fine European Original Antique Fireplace Surround in Grey Marble
Located in Beervelde, BE
A fine Gris St Anne marble vintage fireplace mantle with white statuary inlay from the Louis XVI period second half of the 18th century. It was salvaged from a nobles house in the ci...
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18th Century Belgian Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Fire Place Chenets
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of classical Rococo style 19th century French gilded ormolu chenets, each with scrolling foliate decoration with a young boy and girl seated.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Ormolu
18th Century Original Extra Wide Antique Fireplace Surround in Red Marble
Located in Beervelde, BE
This antique Belgian fireplace surround is very graceful and has unusually wide proportions.
Perfect for a French interior deco with a wide firebox.
...
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18th Century Belgian Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
A Nice Pair of Onyx and Silvered Bronze Ornamental Vases
Located in Antwerp, BE
A good pair of antique marble cassolette.
A nice pair of onyx and silvered bronze ornamental vases in the Robert Adam style.
The three feet resting on circular onyx bases and decora...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Onyx, Marble, Metal, Bronze
Antique Fireback with Two Cupids in a Circle
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Nice square and decorative cast iron fireback with cupids throwing "lovebirds".
19th century
Excellent condition, to be used in a fireplace or as a backsplash.
Can be supplied...
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19th Century European Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
19th Century Pair of Kingwood Porcelain-Mounted Pedestals in the Louis XVI Style
Located in London, GB
A pair of pedestals in the Louis XVI manner
Constructed in kingwood, and dressed with ormolu gilt bronze mounts; rising from stepped rect...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Elegant Antique Fine French Hard Stone Fireplace Mantle
Located in Beervelde, BE
This Louis XVI style fireplace is in burgundy hard stone; it has a very nice patina and is in top condition. It has a wood acajou look. The hardness and the polish of the stone refle...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Gilt Bronze Chenets, France, circa 1860
Located in Atlanta, GA
A superb pair of gilt bronze chenets. Very fine detail.
France, circa 1860
Dimensions: Height 20 1/4", width 11 1/2", depth 6 1/2"
CW4487.
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
Fine French White 18th Century Carrara Marble Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is a bespoke original antique French fireplace mantel (fireplace) in white statuary marble from the Louis XVI period, 18th century. Exquisite carving. It is still in great condition and ready to be installed. A vintage mantlepiece...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Carrara Marble
Louis Xvi building and garden elements for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI building and garden elements 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 building and garden elements created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include building and garden elements, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with stone, marble and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI building and garden elements made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original building and garden elements, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Henry Dasson, François Linke, and Bouhon Frères. 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 building and garden elements differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3 and tops out at $500,000 while the average work can sell for $9,909.
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