18th Century Louis XV Period French Boiserie Panelling
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A characterful late 18th Century French pine boiserie wall elevation, 2.78m high and 3.8m wide. Formed of multiple sections of finely moulded raised-and-fielded panelling and incorpo...
Pine, Paint
Pair of Louis XV Period Doors with Boiserie Panels
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
The ensemble features classic Louis XV profiles, with shaped lower panels and softly arched upper panels framed by carved mouldings.
Pine
Deux importants éléments de boiserie d'époque Louis XV
Located in PARIS, FR
Paire de boiseries décoratives d'entrée représentant l'un amour assis et l'autre un vase. La base sculptée est constituée d'arabesques dans un motif de feuillage. L'ensemble est laqu...
Wood
19th Century Louis XV Style Boiserie Panel with Oil Painting
Located in Birmingham, AL
Rare and beautiful antique French carved parcel-gilt and painted boiseries panel with oil painting on board, once part of an entire boiseries (French wooden paneled room). The oil pa...
Wood
Grand Louis XV Style Boiserie Library with Mirror, France, 20th Century
Located in TOURCOING, FR
Grand Louis XV Style Boiserie Library with Mirror, France, circa 1950 This monumental Louis XV style boiserie library is an exceptional statement piece that combines refined French ...
Mirror, Wood
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Patinated and Giltwood Boiserie Element
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Louis XV style patinated and giltwood boiseries element, 19th century, circa 1840. The rectangular panel is fitted with a shaped beveled mirror plate surrounded by giltwood borders...
Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
Late 18th Century French Paneled Boiserie Storage Wall Unit
Located in Sheffield, MA
The antique Provincial Louis XV period boiserie en chen paneled wall paneling is from a French country chateau.
Oak
Large Antique French White Painted Trumeau Boiserie Mirror, Circa 1870
Located in Dallas, TX
Trumeau boiserie mirrors, such as this painted white offering from France, were designed to be placed on a wall in between two windows. The motifs and color palettes of these mirrors...
Glass, Mirror, Stucco, Wood
Masterbedroom, Boiserie, 18th Century
Located in Gembloux, BE
This complet, beautiful masterbed bedroom features finely carved oak wood-panelling with a build-in Belgian marble fireplace. With a mirrored alcove, one window and a pair of beauti...
Wood
Paneled Boiserie from the Chateau Du Razat
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
The Chateau du Razat was built in 1903 as the home for a French glass and silk merchant and mayor of the town of Razat, J.B. Marion (1849-1929). The chateau was considered one of the...
Marble
Boiserie de style Louis XV 15m linéaire
Located in TOURCOING, FR
Boiserie de style Louis XV – 15 mètres linéaires Plongez dans l’élégance du XVIIIe siècle avec cette somptueuse boiserie de style Louis XV.
Wood
Grand Louis XV French Antique Oak Bibliotheque Boiserie
Located in Dallas, TX
This Louis XV style bibliotheque was constructed circa 1880 using some elements from the 18th century.
Boiserie en sapin de style Louis XV - Paris, 1920
Located in TOURCOING, FR
La boiserie en sapin de style Louis XV, datée de 1920 et provenant de Paris, est une pièce d’exception.
Fir
Antique French Louis XV Style Carved Oak Gilded Boiserie Door Topper
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This antique French Louis XV style carved oak and gilded boiserie door topper is a fine example of 18th-century inspired decorative paneling, designed to bring elegance and refinemen...
Oak
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H 44.875 in W 24.75 in D 9.5 in
Pair of French Louis XV Hand Painted and Carved Oak Boiserie Panels
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This exquisite pair of Louis XV oak blanc du roi-painted and floral-carved boiseries panels are from a French interior, circa 1760s. The pair of gilt-metal three-arm “cattail” sconce...
Oak
Louis XV Painted Mirror
Located in Chireno, TX
Louis XV painted mirror from boiserie. Late 18th or early 19th century mirror retaining remnants of early gilt and paint.
Pine
Large Painted 18th Century French Chateau Boiserie Panel
Located in Dallas, TX
This magnificent, large, polychromed chateau boiseries panel is from the period of Louis XV (1715-1774). It has a later painting on its front depicting the entrance to the famous Cha...
Large 18th Century French Oak Boiserie Trumeau Panel
Located in Dallas, TX
Versatile in its uses today, this large French, stripped European oak trumeau panel is from the period of Louis XV. It was part of a boiseries room or paneled room, mounted above a d...
Oak
Set Boiserie Trophy Decoration Fragments or Appliques of Cherubs
Located in Nashville, TN
or children at play . Hand carved and originally gilded (traces of gilt scattered through out). Adorning paneling, removed and stripped leaving a rich color and patina . One retains ...
Wood
Pair of Large 18th Century French Boiserie Overdoor Paintings
Located in Dallas, TX
Once installed architecturally in a chateau in Normandy, France, this large pair of overdoors was painted in the 1700s and executed in a technique known as verdaille. Verdaille utili...
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Carved And Faded French Walnut Boiserie Panel With Armorial Inset
Located in Nashville, TN
A massive and very faded walnut panel (probably over mantle piece ) with carved armorial inset. Mortise and tendon construction (note upper corners and top groove) and pegged board c...
Walnut
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H 31.5 in W 21.5 in D 5 in
Mid-19th Century Carved Wood Musical Wall or Boiserie Violin Trophy with Cherubs
Located in Nashville, TN
Possibly a Grand Tour Souvenir or remnant .A carved wall trophy allegory to music., possibly part of boiserie and later configured to present. Two cherubs or putti in ascension amon...
Wood
18th Century Oak Overdoor from France
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique French stripped oak overdoor is from the period of Louis XV. It comes from a boiserie which would have had similar ornamentation on all of the paneled wooden walls, doo...
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H 44 in W 10.5 in D 2.25 in
Pair of Tall Carved Louis XV Style Giltwood Boiserie Scrolls or Wall Appliques
Located in Nashville, TN
Rococo and executed in water and matte gilding. Probably attached to boiseries panelling and later separated. Of Shell and floral motifs. Each with winged pixie at the bottom. Each...
Giltwood
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H 125.88 in W 75.63 in D 23.5 in
18th C. French Louis XV Period Walnut Wood Buffet Deux Corps from a Boiserie
Located in Dallas, TX
This rare and magnificent 18th C. French Walnut Wood Buffet a Deux Corps was most likely originally part of a boiserie or walnut paneled room from an exquisite and elegant property i...
Walnut
Hand-Painted French Boiserie Wall Panels, A Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
Pair of Elegant 19th Century Hand Painted French Boiserie Wall Panels. Panels are painted on canvas and later mounted on a board. Framed in simple white wooden frames. Each panel fea...
Canvas, Paint
Pair of Long and Narrow 19th Century, Mirrored French Boiserie Panels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of trumeau mirrored wall hanging panels, painted and parcel-gilt finish, showing natural wear, each long and narrow rectangular gadrooning, framed by cockbeading, upper oval dis...
Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
A Louis XV Boiserie Carved Alcove Center Panel
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Louis XV Boiserie Carved Alcove Center Panel, painted finish.
French Louis XV Style Parcel-Gilt Boiserie Mirror, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
Beautiful French Louis XV style greenish grey and parcel-gilt Boiserie mirror.
Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
French Louis XV Style Gilt and Painted Boiserie Trumeau Mirror
Located in Denver, CO
Originally part of a boiserie (room paneling) scheme, this rectangular mirror has a painted, panelled surround. It is framed with a gilt, rocaille and foliate scroll moulding around ...
Giltwood
FRENCH PROVINCIAL LOUIS XV CARVED WALNUT PANEL
Located in Essex, MA
A carved walnut Louis XV style boiserie panel, the serpentine shaped cresting decorated with a carved basket of fruit, flanked by carved scrolling vines and flowers over a single pan...
Walnut, Mirror
The style of 18th-century French furniture was guided by the court. When Louis XV, who reigned from 1715–74, focused royal life on the smaller salons of Versailles rather than its grand chambers, it transformed the aesthetics away from the imposing and angular furniture that characterized the style of Louis XIV. A broader focus on comfort and more delicate forms define antique Louis XV furniture, with nature-inspired carvings, wood inlays, curved cabriole legs, asymmetrical shapes and rounded oval seat backs. The furnishings changed throughout the king’s life, as he ascended to the throne as a child and then grew to establish his own tastes.
Pieces like the bergère, an upholstered armchair with a wide cushion that fit the flowing dresses in fashion at the time, reflected this more informal court. Introduced at the start of Louis XV’s reign, bergère chairs in this style were deeper and broader than other chairs of the period.
Louis XV tapestries and carpets tended to be floral and colorful, and design elements were borrowed from Asia. Dutch-born cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh brought lacquer techniques influenced by Japan and China into his luxuriously made furniture. Along with its fine details, the furniture of the era also featured new innovations including mechanical devices. Jean François Oeben, a royal cabinetmaker, created such intricate pieces as a mechanical table for Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress. It involved a sliding top and a writing surface that extended from its marquetry panels.
During the later years of Louis XV’s reign, there was a shift from the ostentatious rocaille style, part of the exuberantly decorative Rococo movement in Europe for which designers such as Nicolas Pineau and Juste-Aurèle Meissonier are known. The style under Louis XVI would return to boxier forms, but with a neoclassical touch inspired by the ancient world.
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