Rococo Period Collection
Rococo Furniture (France, Italy AND Germany, 18th century)
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design.
Though greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, Rococo 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.
Rococo furniture 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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Pair of Italian Rococo Silver Gilt Throne Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Pair of antique Italian Rococo high back silver-gilt carved throne style Armchairs with beige upholstered seat and back panels (1 similar-Inv. #037738A)
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Silver Leaf
Italian Carved Wood Triple Splat Back Cherry Settee, Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
Italian Cherry carved splat back settee with floral scrolled motif, scrolled flanking arms , connecting serpentine stretchers, and terminating on the original slipper feet. Settee ha...
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1770s Italian Neoclassical Antique Rococo Period Collection
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Cherry, Upholstery, Wood
Pair of Rococo Fauteuils / Armchairs in Walnut, Italy, circa 1750
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Italian Rococo period fauteuils, with needle-point linen slip covers, serpentine back and scroll arms ending in cabriole legs.
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Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Fine Early Regence Walnut Fauteuil, Italy ca. 1730
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Regence Period walnut fauteuil with shaped back and scallop shell carving, scrolled arms, shaped apron with similar shell detail, all resting on cabriole feet. The fauteuil da...
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Early 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Silk, Upholstery, Walnut
A Rare Set of Four Louis XV Side Chairs, Stamped Tillard
By Jean-Baptiste Tilliard
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Rare set of Four Petite Louis XV
Painted & Parcel Gilt Side Chairs
Stamped Tillard
Circa 1750
Height 33 ½ in. Width 19 in. Depth 17 in.
Jean-Baptiste ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Wood
Early Louis XV Period Canape in Carved Beechwood, c. 1730
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine early Louis XV period Canape, with crisp carved designs throughout the exposed beechwood frame, and with upholstered seat & back flanked by open arms in meandering form.
The back with serpentine apron featuring carved designs and moulded borders throughout, and the seat with similar design themes.
The Canape mounted atop 8 cabriole legs, each with rocaille carving at top, and moulded form that ends in scroll-form feet.
Reference: The Antiques Directory...
Category
Early 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Upholstery
French Regence Giltwood Stool
Located in Sheffield, MA
A French Regence giltwood stool.
With some alterations.
18th century.
Measures: Height 20 in. Width 19 in. Depth 16 in.
Sto 16.
$4,200.
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Rococo Period Collection
A Very Rare Regence Walnut Metamorphic Chair/ Prie Dieu
Located in Sheffield, MA
The chair folds in the upright postition
Height 27 ½ in. Width 26 in. Depth 22 in.
Height open 39 ½ in
Height 27 ½ in. Width 26 in. Depth 22 in.
Height open 39 ½ in
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Rococo Period Collection
A Very Fine Rococo Giltwood Stool, 18th Century
Located in Sheffield, MA
The seat rail with C-scrolls and a scallop shell on cabriole legs headed by a foliate clasp and terminating in raised foliate scroll feet
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Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Rococo Period Collection
French Late Régence, Early Louis XV Beech Fauteuil à La reine, c1720
Located in valatie, NY
Late Régence, Early Louis XV beech fauteuil à la reine, c1720, the top arched rail with beautiful rocaille carving, continuing to the down swept, reeded...
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Early 18th Century French Régence Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Upholstery, Beech
An Important Pair of Portuguese Rococo Rosewood Side Chairs
Located in Sheffield, MA
Each back with a stylized foliate crest rail above an elaborately carved splat, on a serpentine seat on cabriole legs terminating in carved pad feet, joined by shaped stretchers
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18th Century and Earlier Portuguese Antique Rococo Period Collection
Pair of 1750s Italian Piedmontese Rococo Blue-Painted and Parcel-Gilt Stools
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A pair of Italian Piedmontese Rococo period mid-18th century painted and parcel-gilt stools from the collection of designer Gary Tisdale-Woods, with cabriole legs and upholstery. Bor...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
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