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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An Important George III Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This very fine mahogany writing table made in England in the French taste would have been for only the most current and fashionable people of the time. The table has a serpentine top...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Ebony, Mahogany
Green Painted Carved Wood Louis XV Provencal Console
Located in Washington, DC
A Magnificent green painted carved wood Louis XV Provençal console with white marble top in olive branch motif.
Category
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Marble
Northern Italian Rococo Giltwood Console with Marble Top, circa 1740
Located in Atlanta, GA
The Rococo console table with marble serpentine top on a pierced apron, featuring deep carved designs, all mounted on four cabriole legs ending with scroll feet. The base connected w...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Wood
Regence period Gilt-wood Console Table, France c. 1720
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine late Regence period Console Table, the body with rich carving in the early Rococo style popularized by influential "ornemanistes" such as Nicolas Pineau (1684 - 1754). This pa...
Category
Early 18th Century French Régence Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Mahogany Side Table
Located in New York, NY
A mid-19th century mahogany side table with a shaped apron and scalloped frieze centered by a shell and palerae, raised on cabriole legs with elong...
Category
19th Century English Antique Rococo Period Collection
Rococo Gilt-wood Console with Marble Top, Italy c. 1760
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Gilt-wood console table, the Rococo serpentine frame mounted with a conforming mottled beige marble top. Dating from the mid 1700s, and Italian in Origin.
The console has mu...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Giltwood
An Italian Rococo Cream Painted Console
Located in Sheffield, MA
The yellow and pink fossil marble top above a rocaille and foliate pierced apron on cabriole legs with scroll feet.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Rococo Period Collection
An Important Rococo Walnut Center Table Possibly Portuguese
Located in Sheffield, MA
With a shaped top over a foliate carved apron centered by a cabochon cartouche, on carved cabriole legs ending with claw feet.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portuguese Antique Rococo Period Collection
Louis XV Period Painted and Gilt Serpentine Console, France, circa 1760
Located in Atlanta, GA
The Louis XV console table with serpentine blue grey marble top and painted in a pale blue-grey color with gilt accents frame. The apron with deep serp...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Marble
A mid 18th century Rococo Giltwood Console, Naples Italy
Located in Atlanta, GA
An 18th century Neapolitan Rococo Giltwood Console with Green Faux Marble Top, dating from the mid 1700's and Italian in origin.
The serpentine faux painted green marble top rests...
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1750s Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Giltwood
A Louis XV Chestnut Leather Top Games Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
The square top with a tooled leather surface above four drawers raised on cabriole legs ending with sabots.
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Rococo Period Collection
Italian Rococo Style 18th Century Faux Marble Center Table
Located in New York, NY
Italian Rococo style Sicilian (18th Century) large rectangular center table with a faux marble resting upon a white-painted & gilt carved base & apron supported on four cabriole legs.
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Silver Leaf
Pair of 18th Century Italian Rococo Painted Console Tables with Scagliola Tops
Located in Troy, NY
Very decorative and charming pair of console tables of Italian origin, the wooden silvered and cream painted bases with cabriole legs and scrolling ornaments supporting a cheerfully ...
Category
17th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Scagliola, Pine, Poplar
Large Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Giltwood Green Marble-Top Console
Located in Pasadena, CA
This very large mid-18th century Italian Rococo giltwood green marble top console having a modern marble top; the frame with pierced Giltwo...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Marble
Italian Rococo Gilt Wood Console Table
Located in New York, NY
Italian Rococo (circa 1770) gilt wood console table with a floral filigree design and shaped top.
Category
1770s Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Giltwood
Rococo Console Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine 18th century Rococo carved and giltwood console table with lobed shell and foliate carving in lovely old surface stripped down to the original gilding, having crisp carving...
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Marble
Pair of Italian Rococo Silver Gilt Marble Top Console Tables
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Italian Rococo-style (Venice, First Quarter 19th Century) silver gilt & white gesso painted console tables with inset shaped Siena marble top & scroll design apron on 3 cabri...
Category
19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Marble, Silver Leaf
Italian Venetian Gilt Marble Console Table
Located in New York, NY
Italian Venetian (18th Century) gilt 3 leg console table with carved floral design stretcher & apron with shaped brown marble top.
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Rococo Period Collection
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
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Monumental Giltwood Florentine Mirror with Marble-Top Console Table, circa 1940
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Rococo Giltwood Console Table with Marble Top
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
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Located in Essex, MA
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Circa 1780 English George III Patinated Oak Antique Writing Table
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GEORGE III PROVINCIAL PATINATED OAK THREE-DRAWER WRITING TABLE
England, circa 1780 with scrolled cupid's bow apron
Item # 312EKH07Q
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Located in Belper, Derbyshire
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Antique George III Mahogany Library Writing Table Desk, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fine antique George III mahogany and marquetry library table, circa 1780 in date.
The table features beautiful floral and scrolling foliate marquetry throughout, with flame mahogany marquetry panels and gonçalo alves crossbanding.
The rectangular top is fitted with the original emerald green gold tooled inset leather writing surface above a pair of crossbanded frieze drawers, raised on square tapered legs.
It is freestanding, finished on all sides, so that it can stand freely in the middle of a room, making it extremely suitable for a large home or office.
Complete with original brass handles, working locks and keys.
THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, and only shows minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use.
Please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 76 x width 144 x depth 84
Dimensions in inches:
Height 29.9 x width 56.7 x depth 33.1
Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.
The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.
Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.
Flame mahogany
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French 1730s Régence Painted Console Table with Carved Apron and Cabriole Legs
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Small George III Mahogany Roll Top Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
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