Neoclassical Period Collection
Neoclassical Furniture (FRANCE AND UNITED KINGDOM, CA. 1750)
Neoclassical design emerged in Europe in the 1750s, as the Age of Enlightenment reached full flower. Furniture took its cues from the styles of ancient Rome and Athens: symmetrical, ordered, dignified forms with such details as tapered and fluted chair and table legs, backrest finials and scrolled arms. Over a period of some 20 years, first in France and later in Britain, Neoclassical design — also known as Louis XVI, or Louis Seize — would supersede the lithe and curvaceous Rococo or Louis XV style.
The first half of the 18th century had seen a rebirth of interest in classical antiquity. The "Grand Tour" of Europe, codified as a part of the proper education of a patrician gentleman, included an extended visit to Rome. Some ventured further, to sketch the ruins of ancient Greece. These drawings and others — particularly those derived from the surprising and rich archaeological discoveries in the 1730s and ’40s at the sites of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum — caused great excitement among intellectuals and aesthetes alike.
Neoclassical furniture is meant to reflect both grace and power. The overall appearance of Neoclassical chairs, tables and cabinetry is strong and rectilinear. These pieces are, in effect, classical architecture in miniature: chair and table legs are shaped like columns; cabinets are constructed with elements that mirror friezes and pediments.
Yet neoclassicism is enlivened by gilt and silver leaf, marquetry, and carved and applied ornamental motifs based on Greek and Roman sculpture: acanthus leaves, garlands, laurel wreaths, sheaves of arrow, medallions and chair splats are carved in the shapes of lyres and urns. As you can see from the furniture shown on these pages, there is a bit of whimsy in such stately pieces — a touch of lightness that will always keep Neoclassicism fresh.
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Returnable Items Only
Antique English Early 19th Century Wedgwood Chandelier
By Josiah Wedgwood
Located in London, by appointment only
A rare early 19th century Regency period English chandelier, the body of Wedgwood jasperware mounted with elaborate gilt ormolu metal work issuing five electrified candle arms and hu...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of 18th/19th Century Neoclassical Carved Giltwood Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of exquisite Neoclassical carved giltwood sconces, each having draped female figure with wings holding torch in each arm and one on her head, serving as the three candlearms, e...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Wood
17th Century Flemish Tapestry after Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Dallas, TX
Magnificent Flemish tapestry after the renown painting of Peter Paul Ruben's "Decius Mus preparing for Death," 1616-1617. Upon hearing his fate pronounced by the High Priest of Rome, Decius Mus receives his last rites...
Category
17th Century Belgian Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Tapestry
Louis XVI design Fautueil constructed in Walnut, Italy c. 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Louis XVI period Fauteuil, with Neoclassical carved designs throughout the exposed Walnut frame. Dating from the fourth quarter of the 1700s, and Italian in origin.
The ov...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
18th Century Breccia Marble Column Pedestal
Located in New York, NY
18th century Breccia marble column pedestal. With a white marble capital above an entastic column, resting on a square pedestal with a cavetto e...
Category
1780s Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Breccia Marble
French Empire Gilt Silver Epergne, c1805
Located in valatie, NY
This beautiful French early 19th century gilt sterling silver epergne is decorated with classical female figures, cherubs, dragon flies, and Egyptian heads, it stands on hoofed feet....
Category
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Silver
William IV Walnut Circular Table
Located in Montreal, QC
Important William IV period circular table. The burl walnut top extensively inlaid with intricate marquetry, resting on a circular base fitted with an upholstered footrest.
Category
19th Century English Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Rosewood, Walnut
Period Empire Bronze Neoclassical Urns
Located in New Orleans, LA
Beautifully decorated Empire bronze urns.
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Paris Porcelain Urns with Landscapes, circa 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine pair of Paris porcelain vases on pedestal bases, featuring landscape scenes within acid-etched gilt borders. The body of each vase with a green ground, above and below with gi...
Category
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Paint, Porcelain
1820s English Mahogany Partner's Desk with Greek Key Leather Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 19th-century English mahogany partner's desk. A tooled gilt Greek key pattern borders the molded black leather top, and on either side, two sets of four stacked drawers and one...
Category
19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood and Amaranth Bureau Plat
By Philippe Claude Montigny
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the style of Montigny (Philippe-Claude Montigny, mai^tre in 1770), the rectangular tooled leather-lined top surrounded with a later ormolu border, above two frieze drawers and sim...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Bronze
Painted Folk Art Four-Panel Floor Screen
Located in Troy, NY
A very unique charmingly decorative double sided screen, painted oil on canvas, seemingly an oversized idea of the sketchbook or travelogue. One si...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Canvas
French 18th Century Transitional Marquetry Commode
Located in Pembroke, MA
French Louis XV-XVI transitional period commode with lovely marquetry in satinwood, rosewood and tulipwood, Gris Sainte Anne marble top and three drawers. The commode features a cent...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Marble
Sheffield Silver Plate Wire and Bristol Glass Epergne Centerpiece
Located in New York, NY
This English Sheffield plate wire-work epergne is distinguished by gracefully scrolled supports, which branch from a round footed base and suspend six baskets, with a large central basket at the top. Each of the baskets is shaped to hold a boat-shaped blue Bristol glass...
Category
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Sheffield Plate
A Fine & Rare Pair of Stools by Jean Baptiste Lelarge III, 18th Century
By Jean Baptiste Lelarge III
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine & Rare Pair of Louis XVI
Painted & Giltwood Stools
Stamped Lelarge
18th Century
Jean Baptiste Lelarge III
Maitre 1775
Height of back 24 in.
Height of seat ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
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...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Gold Leaf, Tin
Louis XVI Period Painted Console with Marble Top, France, circa 1790
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Louis XVI Period white painted console table with carved pierced frieze and rectangular black marble top, originating in France during the late 1700s.
The rectangular marble top...
Category
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Wood
Table Game French Directoire 19th Century Mahogany Leather Black France
Located in New York, NY
An extraordinary game table from the Directoire period made in France. Frame made of mahogany in a beautiful cognac brown shade. Apron divided into rectangular parts of brass and bra...
Category
Early 19th Century French Directoire Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Brass
French Directoire Period Bergere
Located in Pembroke, MA
French Directoire period blue-gray painted bergere, newly-upholstered in lovely blue and gold toile fabric based on a museum-archived pattern....
Category
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Large Neoclassical Drawing by Edouard Pingret, French School
By Edouard Pingret
Located in Kittery Point, ME
River Scene, "Les Bords du Cher à Poitiers"
Signed bottom right and situated bottom left.
Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret (Saint Quentin 178...
Signed bottom right and situated bottom left.
Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret (Saint Quentin 178...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Pencil
Pair of Consulat Mahogany Armchairs
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular arched padded back above a padded seat and tapering front legs topped with the head of a sphinx and ending in paw feet.
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Mahogany
Rare Louis XVI Period Enamel and Gilt Bronze Clock
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare Louis XVI period enamel and gilt bronze clock on a black marble base.
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Bronze
Clock Mantle Gilt Bronze Neoclassical Empire French 19th Century France
Located in New York, NY
Clock Mantle Gilt Bronze Neoclassical Empire French 19th Century France. A French mantel clock in gilt bronze. Neoclassical symbols such Cup...
Category
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Ormolu
A Very Large George III Five Pedestal Dining Table, c1780
Located in valatie, NY
A rare and important George III five pedestal dining table c1780, with four leaves. The rounded rectangular top of superb timber with reeded...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Mahogany
A Pair of Neoclassical Bronze Dore Candelabra Att. to Thomire
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Pair of Neoclassical
Bronze Dore Candelabra
With the Mythological Figures of Flora & Zephyr
Now mounted as Bouillotte Lamps
Early 19th Century
Attributed to Thomire...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Four-Panel Painted Neoclassical French Screen
Located in Sheffield, MA
Each panel decorated with a landscape.
Each panel is H.69 in. by 22 in.
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Very Rare 18th Century Maggiolini Desk
By Giuseppe Maggiolini
Located in Montreal, QC
Very rare 18th century Italian neoclassical desk attributed to the workshop of Giuseppe Maggiolini. The piece is composed of extensive inlay ...
Category
1780s Italian Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Walnut
Clock Mantle Gilt Bronze Neoclassical Empire French 19th Century France
Located in New York, NY
Clock Mantle Gilt Bronze Neoclassical Empire French 19th Century France. A French mantle in gilt bronze decorated with neoclassical symbols ...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Period Barometer
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Very charming carved and gilded acanthus leaf framed Louis XVI period wall barometer with glass covered central dial and glass thermostat beneath; bot...
Category
Early 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Louis XVI Period Giltwood Mirror with Marie Antoinette
Located in Pembroke, MA
A charming French giltwood trumeau mirror with inset portrait of Marie Antoinette (period Louis XVI, circa 1790). The trumeau has a nicely-carved ribbon cartouche with laurel swags, ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Gouache, Wood, Gesso, Mercury Glass
Venetian Neoclassical late 18th century Painted Console Table
Located in Troy, NY
Exquisite painted Venetian console table in the typical neoclassical taste. For a similar example see: G. Morazzoni, "Il Mobile Veneziano del settecento" Tav. CXCI.
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Wood
Louis XVI period Gilt & Painted Trumeau Mirror, France c. 1790
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Louis XVI period Trumeau Mirror, with cream-painted and gilt frame featuring raised Neoclassical designs, and with upper oil-on-canvas scene of children playing in a forest s...
Category
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Mirror
19th Century, English Giltwood Oval Mirror in the Neoclassical Style
Located in London, GB
A fine and substantial mirror in the Robert Adam manner.
Primarily giltwood, and having an the elliptical mirror plate housed within a continuous band of stiff leaf moulding, encl...
Category
19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Pair of French 19th Century Carrara Marble and Gilt Bronze Urns
By Eugene Bazart
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of urns in the Louis XVI Manner Signed by Eugene Bazart of Paris.
Constructed of Carrara marble and finely cast, planished and gilt bronze; the waisted garland draped ...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Superb French Neoclassical Console
Located in Dallas, TX
Fine French Neoclassical parcel-gilt console with black granite top and stretcher. Having excellent carved and gilt rams heads, lovely guilloche pattern across apron, and gracefully ...
Category
1940s French Neoclassical Vintage Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Granite
3 Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Slipper / Lounge Chairs, Pierre Lottier, 1940
By Pierre Lottier
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Slipper, Fireplace or Lounge Chairs in dark green leather by French / Spanish designer, Pierre Lottier.The chairs are in a neoclasslical X frame form in wood with leather cov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Period Collection
Materials
Leather, Wood
