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Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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
Pair Of German 19th Century Louis XVI St. Dresden Porcelain Planters
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and exquisitely detailed pair of German 19th century Louis XVI st. Dresden porcelain planters, signed Dresden. Each circular planter is raised by a mottled edge pedestal a...
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19th Century German Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Porcelain

Louis XVI Mahogany Jardiniere 'Planter', Attributed to Canabas
By Joseph Canabas
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular moulded surround with a zinc liner with a pierced ormolu gallery, above a panelled frieze with a fluted edge, with later handles to the side, raised on turned taperin...
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze

Antique French Louis XVI Styled Ebonized Jardinière Table with Inset Plaque Top
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique jardinière table is unmarked, but presumed to have been made in England or France is circa 1890 in a Louis XVI style. The table is composed of wood which has been painte...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Brass

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Patinated Bronze Jardinière
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most impressive and large scaled French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and patinated Bronze Jardinière vase signed Christofle et Cie Orfevres. This unique jardiniere is position...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze, Ormolu

Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Walnut Jardiniere, Planter, Zinc Liner
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This French Louis XVI style planter or jardiniere from the late nineteenth century is constructed of solid walnut and features its original removable zinc liner. The jardiniere stands on four turned legs joined by a lower shelf that provides additional display space. A handsome piece for use as an indoor plant stand...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Zinc

French Mid 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Patinated Bronze Centerpiece
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and large scaled French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and patinated Bronze centerpiece. The centerpiece is raised by topie shaped feet below a richly decorated ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze, Ormolu

19th Century Cast Iron Garden Urn
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A 'pot-bellied' garden urn in grey-lacquered cast iron, and decorated with egg and dart mouldings round the lip, and classical gadrooning below. This eye-catching antique planter sit...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Iron

Pair of Swedish Louis Seize Cast Iron Blue Oval Planters, 19th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
19th century Pair of cast iron swedish oval planters with original blue paint. Weathered metal finish with incredible old world patina and the original petroleum-blue paint. Lovel...
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Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Iron

Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Style Walnut Jardiniere or Planter, Zinc Liner
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This French Louis XVI style planter or jardiniere from the mid twentieth century is constructed of solid walnut and features its original remov...
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Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Zinc

19th Century Italian Louis XVI Style Carved Wood Planter
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Italian Louis XVI style carved wood planter. Our elegant antique Italian Louis XVI style carved painted and parcel gilt planter, jardiniere or cachepot has a lovely dra...
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1870s Italian Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Wood

Italian 19th Century Louis XVI St. White Carrara Marble Bird Bath / Planter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most elegant Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble bird bath/planter. The planter is raised by a square base with ha...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Marble

Ormolu Louis XVI Planter in Mahogany and Marble
Located in BARSAC, FR
Interesting Louis XVI style planter in speckled mahogany veneer and gilded brass and bronze ornamentation. Large zinc bench in the upper par...
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1930s French Vintage Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Marble, Ormolu

Monumental 18th Century French Louis XVI Terracotta Urn
Located in Houston, TX
Monumental 18th century French Louis XVI terracotta urn. This stunning 18th century French Louis XVI terra cotta garden urn, garden ornament, jardiniere or planter has a Grecian fee...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Terracotta

Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Porcelain De Paris Planters
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and extremely decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Porcelain de Paris centerpiece planters. Each planter is ra...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Ormolu

19th Century, French Bronze Planter or Gueridon
Located in IT
19th century, French bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in France towards the end of the nineteenth century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Metal, Bronze

Pair of Mid-Century English Louis XVI Style Walnut Cachepots or Planters
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This pair of mid-century English walnut square planters or jardinières is in the classic Louis XVI style. They feature brass pine cone finials at the corners and a drop ring handle o...
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Mid-20th Century English Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Brass, Zinc

French Louis XV XVI Style Bronze Verdigris Figural Garden Planters, a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French Louis XV XVI style bronze Verdigris 43" Figural Garden planters - a Pair. Item features heavy cast bronze construction, green verdigris weathered finish, maiden heads...
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Late 20th Century Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze

19th Century Sevres Porcelain Mounted Side Table / Plater
Located in Brighton, Sussex
19th century French Kingwood table / jardiniere, having gilded ormolu mouldings and mounts. The lid lifting up to reveal a compartment for plants, flowers or can be used as a cellere...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Porcelain

Italian 18th Century Louis XVI Period Giltwood Three Graces Planter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational Italian 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood plater with the three graces. The planter is raised by a triangular base with concave sides below beautiful scrolled supp...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Giltwood

French Early 19th Century Louis XVI St. Patinated and Giltwood Planter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and large scale French early 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated and giltwood planter. The oval planter is raised by a fine mottled giltwood band below an exceptional lux...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Wood, Giltwood

Pair of Louis XVI Style Campana Urns on Pedestals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish pair of hand-carved wood campara urns on stands date to the 1930s and were acquired from a home decorated by the iconic interior designer and antiuqe dealer John Regas. ...
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Early 20th Century Italian Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Wood

Dutch Jardiniere Marqueterie 1850
By Thomas Chippendale Jr.
Located in Den Haag, NL
Circa 1850, neat-sized Dutch inlaid mahogany jardinière. The square top with canted corners, containing its original brass liner. The sides with chevron inlay, banding, shell inlays,...
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1860s Dutch Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Wood

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Planter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most impressive large scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and patinated bronze planter. The planter is raised by a most decorative tripod ormolu support with elegantly curved legs, superb hoof feet and a triangular concave stretcher with fine scrolls. Above each leg are striking richly chased ormolu rams heads...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze, Ormolu

Pair of Italian 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely and very decorative pair of Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. marble urns. Each urn is raised on a circular base with reeded patterns and petal shaped carvings below the mo...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Carrara Marble

Italian 19th Century Louis XVI Style Mecca and Faux Painted Marble Planter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. Mecca and faux painted marble freestanding planter. The planter is raised by a beautiful faux painted Vert de Patricia marble base with ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Pewter

Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze and Marble Jardinière after Clodion, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style patinated bronze and marble jardinière, cast in relief with Bacchanalian Scenes Of Putti at Play, After Clodion. French, circa 1870. The body of the jardiniè...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Marble, Bronze

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 Planters and Jardinieres

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Bronze

Impressive Pair of French Glazed Earthenware Urns, Signed 'Emile Muller, Paris'
Located in San Francisco, CA
Each of impressive size with short everted laurel leaf mouth flanked by scrolled handles with bold acanthus leaf decoration; the compressed bulbous body with overlapping foliate ring...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Earthenware

2 Important Cast Iron Garden Vases, End of the 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
2 Important cast iron garden vases in the style of Louis XVI, end of 19th century. Antique-style vases adorned with female medallions, fluting, Greek-style handles, laurel garlands,...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Iron

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 Planters and Jardinieres

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Copper

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 Planters and Jardinieres

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Wood, Gesso

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 Planters and Jardinieres

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Gold Leaf, Tin

Exceptional 18th Century French Iron Planter
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Exceptional 18th century French iron planter.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Iron

Louis XVI Gilded Fernery
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XVI style (19/20th Cent) gilded cane round planter/fernery with ram heads and cane stretcher.
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Early 20th Century Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Cane

Large French Louis XVI Style Wood Jardinière or Planter with Divided Zinc Insert
Located in Birmingham, AL
Fabulous Louis XVI style wood jardinière from a hotel near Èze, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France, having typical neoclassical carved and ebonized lo...
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1910s French Vintage Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres

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Zinc

Louis Xvi planters and jardinieres for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI planters and jardinieres for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 19th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage planters and jardinieres created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, earthenware and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI planters and jardinieres made in a specific country, there are Europe, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. 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 planters and jardinieres differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $12,800 and tops out at $12,800 while the average work can sell for $12,800.

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