Baroque Decorative Objects
BAROQUE STYLE
The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.
Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.
Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.
Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.
Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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18th Century Giltwood Italian Candlesticks Pair
Located in Winter Park, FL
A pair of 19th century Italian giltwood altar candlesticks. Tall columns on a trefoil base. Zinc prickets. Distressed gilt finish. Heavy gilt lo...
Category
18th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Early 18th Century Style Plaster and Wood Italian Candelabras
Located in Leesburg, VA
A pair of antique decorative plaster and wood Italian candelabras.
Italy; early 18th century style, possibly made in the 19th century
Approximate size: 81 cm (h) each
A pair o...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Vintage Pair of Candlesticks, Italian Baroque Style, 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Pair of Candlesticks, Italian Baroque style, 19th century.
Pair of big candlesticks is a very refined decorative object in brass and gilded metal.
55x14 cm each.
Ve...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Fine Pair of Tall 18th Century Italian Carved Wood Cherub's
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A fine pair of 18th century tall Italian carved wood harvest cherub sculptures. These sculptures each hold a piece of harvest aloft their curled heads, forms elegantly poised as if c...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Paint
19th Century French Bronze Box with Semi Precious Stones
Located in Houston, TX
19th century French bronze box with semi precious stones.
Lovely 19th century French Baroque style bronze box or jewel casket with semi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Bronze
Very Large Italian Baroque Wood Angel Sculpture, Late 17th Century
Located in Bradenton, FL
Late 17th/early 18th century carved and polychrome Italian Angel figure. Exquisitely hand carved sculpture with wonderful movement to the draped body of the Angel. Retaining original...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Pair of Baroque Italian Carved Giltwood Torcheres
Located in Benalmadena, ES
This impressive pair of 19th century Italian torches are a sublime work of European Baroque art. Carved in golden wood, it gives us an exquisite decoration of angels among fruits and...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Giltwood
Delft 1760-1780 Blue and White Duynkerker Tobacco Jar Delftware
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Blue and white DUYNKERKER tobacco jar
Delft, 1760-1780
The ovoid tobacco jar with copper lid has a groove on the shoulder at the top and a protruding rim. The jar is painted in blue...
Category
Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Pair of Italian Giltwood and Polychrome Torchères, circa 1750
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carved figures holding aloft a cornucopia form torchere. Dressed in flowing tunics slashed at the knees, shod in sandals strapped about the calves standing contra posto on square pli...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Hand Washbasin
Located in Madrid, ES
19th century ITALIAN carrara MARBLE HAND WASHBASIN.
Hand basin in white carrara marble decorated with leaves and bunches of grapes.
WIDTH 69cms
LENGTH...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Antique French Carved Wood Cherub Sculpture
Located in Cheltenham, GB
"Behold this Antique French Carved Wood Cherub Sculpture, crafted around 1890. Carved from solid wood, this piece held a unique role as the master m...
Category
19th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Softwood
Pair of Baroque Putti Cherubs, Polychrome & Gilt Wood, French Pyrenees ca 1700
Located in Aarhus C, DK
Pair of original Baroque wooden putti / winged cherubs.
We were told that they originate from a church in the French Pyrenees.
We suppose they are from circa 1650 to 1750.
The p...
Category
17th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
August Moreau '1834-1917' "Le Jeunes Filles". French Bronze Sculpture Signed
Located in Madrid, ES
AUGUST MOREAU (1834-1917)
"Le Jeunes Filles".
French bronze sculpture
19th Century
Signed Moreau.
Height: (total) 57 cm
good conditions.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Continental Italian Baroque Wood Carved Kneeling Angel Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly magnificent and wonderful large hand-carved Italian Baroque wood church angel from the 18th Century. This work, which at one point was likely pol...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Baroque Carved Santos Icon Sculpture
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Majestic 18th century Italian baroque polychrome Santos icon sculpture of a young man. The carved icon is depicted standing and wearing a flowing robe with graceful movement. He has ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Italian 19th Century Carved Wooden Saint Figure
Located in Buisson, FR
Very nice saint figure. Hand carved wood with glass eyes
Italy, circa 1800-1850. Weathered, small losses.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Antique 18th Century Italian Ceramic Apothecary Jar
Located in Bradenton, FL
Tall vintage Italian ceramic apothecary jar. Has words 'Sulph Comu' on front. Floral and bow motif in colors of blue, yellow and green on off wh...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
19th Century Italian Gilt Wood Painted Trinket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
Antique Florentine painted and gilded trinket box, made in Italy marked on bottom.
Dimensions:
6.5" L X 5" W X 4" H.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint
Spanish Sculpture of the 17th Century "Saint Antony and the Child Jesus"
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish Sculpture of the 17th century "Saint Antony and the Child Jesus"
Measures: H: 61cm,
polychrome and gilded wood.
Good condition.
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Important Portuguese Oratory from the 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Portuguese Oratory from the 17th century,
rosewood, internally sculpture in polychromatic and golden wood "The Virgin with the Child" Perfect cond...
Category
17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Large Giltwood Baroque Altar Candlestick, Italy, 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Baroque altar candlestick with a three-legged stand and a balustered shaft with a gold-patinated and dark accentuated setting and a wavy bras...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century Spanish Silver on Wood Baroque Reliquary
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful and detailed reliquary holder with a thin hammered layer of silver on wood. Beautiful details.,
Spain, circa 1750. Weathered and small losses.
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Important Portuguese Oratory from the 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Important Portuguese Oratory from the 18th century
with a sculpture of Christ in gilded wood from the 18th century and two Saint Antony from the 17...
Category
Early 18th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Painted and Parcel Gilt Reliquary Box
Located in Houston, TX
18th century Italian painted and parcel gilt reliquary box.
This lovely large Italian Baroque box is made of painted and parcel gilt wood surrounded by ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Wood
Amazing Spanish Sculpture 17th Century " Guardian Angel "
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish school S. XVII
Guardian angel
Polychrome wood carving.
Height: 115 cm.
Of Cantabrian origin from the city of Trasmiera. It belonged to a private chapel to which it gave i...
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Silver Leaf Cross with Plated Crystals on a Mica Cluster
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian sliver leaf and mecca cross adorned with gold and silver plated crystal points and mica mounted on a mica and tourmaline in calcite matrix base. The crucifix originally came from a church in Tuscany. The gold and silver plated crystal points replicate the original sunrays or halo around the cross. The piece is mounted on a mica and tourmaline cluster that is in a matrix of calcite. The mica holds a shimmery appearance that can reflect light - like nature's disco ball. It perfectly coordinates with the silver leaf and mecca painted cross...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal, Silver Leaf
Pair of Large Florentine Ornamental Vases in Impruneta Terracotta End 19th Centu
Located in Madrid, ES
PAIR OF LARGE FLORENTINE ORNAMENTAL VASES IN IMPRUNETA TERRACOTTA end 19th Century
HEIGHT 105cm
WIDTH 85cms
WEIGHT 54 Kg
OCTAGONAL BASE Ø 44...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
17th Century Sandstone Gargoyle on Stand
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A early 17th century French Gargoyle. Gargoyels were originally intented as waterspouts for churches and castles but soon were used as ornamentation. A...
Category
17th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Sandstone
18th 19th Century French Carved Oak Panel of Saint Philomena
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful weathered oak panel representing Saint Philomena.
Also known as Philomena of Rome was a young virgin martyr whose remains were discovered ...
Category
18th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Oak
Head of the Diana of Versailles, Terracotta Bianca, Early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Head of the Diana of Versailles, terracotta Bianca early 20th century.
Artemis / Diana Goddess of hunting.
Copy of the Roman statue of the Louvre...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Danish 18th Century Blue Faience Inkwell by Store Kongensgade
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Rare Danish blue and white faience ink stand by Johan Ernst Pfau for Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactory, Copenhagen Denmark circa 1740. This inkwell retain with its original ink a...
Category
Early 18th Century Danish Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience
Late 19th Century Terracotta Wrestlers
Located in Madrid, ES
Late 19th century Terracotta Wrestlers.
Wrestlers (from Villa Medici in Rome), Roman copy of the second half of the third century. B.C.
Sculptural group from a parchment bronze original, preserved in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century, Italian Carved Wooden Christ
Located in Buisson, FR
Very beautiful wooden Christ figure with a strong expression and traces of its original color,
Italy, circa 1750. Weathered and small losses, old repair...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
English Carved Picture Frame, Early 18th Century Stripped
By (follower of) Peter Lely
Located in Hallowell, US
Would make a stunning pier mirror, or use as a frame if you have the work of art for it. I believe best to siply use as a mirror, I assume originally gilded.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Pine
Early 18th Century Coconut and Silver Cup
Located in Brescia, IT
Cups in coconut such as this are especially uncommon and rarely appear on the world's art market. This is a very interesting piece for its fine and rich craftmenships metal silver de...
Category
Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
18th Century Blue Swedish Baroque Long Case Clock
Located in Kramfors, SE
Blue baroque long case clock from the mid to late 18th century, between 1770 and 1790. The clock is Swedish and made from Swedish pine with the original blue paint as well as the aut...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Pine
19th Century Italian Carved Wood Santo Foot
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Italian carved wood Santo foot.
This stunning antique Italian carved wood Santo foot of an Archangel dressed as a Roman
soldier. This beautifully carved and gilded scu...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Italian White Marble Stoup
Located in Madrid, ES
Early 20th Century WHITE MARBLE STOUP
Italy
amazing condition
hand made
HEIGHT 15cm
WIDTH 52cm
DEPTH 50cm.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble, Marble
Antique Italian White Carrara Marble Trougle, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Antique Italian white Carrara marble trougle, 19th century.
Measures : height 20 cm.
width 34 cms.
length 45 cm.
internal depth of the...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Rare and Beautiful Miniature Chest of Drawers from the Early 18th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
Rather large and rare miniature chest of drawers in late baroque from the early 18th century. Made in Walnut with key-plate in brass. All the drawers in the dresser with original loc...
Category
Early 18th Century European Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Italian Cross with Tangerine Crystals on a Crystal Cluster Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian cross adorned with tangerine quartz crystals on a tangerine quartz and crystal cluster base. The crucifix originally came from a church in Tuscany. The crystal quartz points replicate the original sunrays or halo around the cross.
The piece is put together by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the artist and creative director of Interi. The date of manufacture reflects when she created the piece and the period shows that the Italian cross is originally 18th century.
The 18th century Italian cross has been preserved and transformed into a figurative, contemporary work of art. With the combination of the precious minerals, the church artifact...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal, Quartz
Pair of Baroque Hand-Carved Giltwood Candlesticks
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of baroque hand-carved giltwood candlesticks from Italy. Sold together and priced $3,800 for the pair.
Note: Original/early finish on ant...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Giltwood
Mid-18th Century German Engraved Sterking Silver Box
Located in Brescia, IT
This fine sterling silver box is a piece of high craftmenship. All the surfaces are finely engraved with rich Baroque decor. It is a little jewel of handmade work.
It was a jewel bo...
Category
Mid-18th Century German Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
ROUND STONE RELIEF OF HADRYAN Late 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
ROUND STONE RELIEF OF HADRYAN Late 19th Century
This roundel is part of a series of roundels inspired by the wonderful classical ancient Greek and Roman coins.
Freely reproduced from a gold coin (gold) of the emperor Hadrian. Roman, A.D. 134-38.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Dép. des Monnaiies, Musee et Antique...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone
Titus Roman Emperor, Terracotta Round End, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Titus Roman Emperor, terracotta round end 19th century.
Diameter 31cm.
thickness 6cm.
weigh 8kg.
Material terracotta.
Very good condition.
Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasian Augustus (in Latin: Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus; in the epigraphs: IMP•T•CAESAR•VESPASIANUS•AVG•PON•M•TR•POT[1]; Rome, 30 December 39 – Aquae Cutiliae, 13 September 81, better known simply as Titus, was a Roman emperor, belonging to the Flavian dynasty, and reigned for just over two years from 79 to 81, the year of his death.
Before ascending the throne, Titus was an able and esteemed general who distinguished himself for the repression of the rebellion in Judea in 70, during which the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. He was considered a good emperor by Tacitus and other contemporary historians; he is known for his program of public works in Rome and for his generosity in rescuing the population following two disastrous events: the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and the fire in Rome in 80. Famous is the definition that the historian Suetonius gave of him:
"Amor ac deliciae generis humani. » « Love and delight of mankind. »
Titus' family, the gens Flavia, belonged to that Italian nobility which, in the first half of the first century, was gradually replacing the more ancient Roman aristocracy, weakened by the decades of civil wars fought in the first century BC. The Flavians, in fact, were not of noble origins, but they managed, within just three generations, to rise from humble origins to the honor of the imperial purple. Tito's paternal great-grandfather, Tito Flavio Petrone from Rieti, had fought as a centurion evocatus in the army of Gnaeus Pompey the Great during the civil war of 49-45 BC, fighting in the battle of Farsalo and fleeing after the defeat of the Pompeians; he was pardoned by Cesare and became tax collector...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Important Portuguese Sculpture from the 17th Century, "Our Lady and Child Jesus"
Located in Madrid, ES
Important Portuguese Sacred Art Sculpture from the 17th century, "Our Lady and Child Jesus" in polychromatic and gilded wood,
It was never restored - m...
Category
17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enameled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Dutch Style Frame, Ebony, Wood, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Dutch style curly frame. Ebony. XVII century.
Rectangular frame made of carved ebony wood and decorated with a series of bands parallel to each other, of different widths and alter...
Category
17th Century European Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
French C 18th Terracotta Bust of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
After a model attributed to Jean Antoine Houdon, possibly Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1750 - 1780), poet.
Superbly sculpted in a coat and ruffled shirt set on a waisted socle....
Category
18th Century French Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Pair of 19th Century Male and Female Italian Carved Figures
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Pair of 19th century male and female Italian carved figures
This charming pair of figures stand almost 6ft high, they each have a socket in their ...
Category
19th Century Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Amazing Antique Italian Large Lidded Cassolet Vase, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Amazing Antique Italian large lidded cassolet vase 19th century
In green marble with a beautiful frame in decorated bronze (including children and garlands) - height: 66 cm
Very goo...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
18th Century Jesus Child Terracotta Figure Holy Devotional Italian Art
Located in Milan, IT
18th century Jesus Child Terracotta Sculpture an Italian Holy and devotional art polychromed figure depicting Baby Jesus standing on an a carved and go...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta, Giltwood
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Candlestick with Triangular Base, Bronze, Spain, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Candlestick with triangular base. Bronze. Spain, 18th century.
Bronze candlestick with a triangular base raised on three legs and enhanced with moldi...
Category
18th Century European Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Unique 18th Century Carved Altar Candlestick Holder from Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
hand carved from pine in the 1700s, this unique Italian altar candlestick holder features a lovely foliate rinceaux dotted with volute scrolls. The intricate weaving of curled leaves...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Battle Between Centaurs and Lapites High Relief in Carrara White Marble Late19th
Located in Madrid, ES
Battle between Centaurs and Lapites high relief in Carrara white marble
Late 19th century
Measures: Height 40 cm
Width 142 cm
Thickness 5 cm
Weight 75 kg
Material white Carra...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Black Oval Photo Frame Baroque Style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photograph frame, shaped edge in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand engraving, interspersed with black fired enamel in Baroque style. External cm. 7.4 x 11.3. W...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Meissen Allegorical Group 'The Water', by M.V. Acier, Germany, Around 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Meissen porcelain group of the 19th century:
Nymph, covered only with a cloth, seated on a half shell floating on the water, holding the cloth at one end so that it forms ...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Antique Baroque Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Baroque decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Baroque decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative objects created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Baroque decorative objects made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative objects, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Meissen Porcelain, Franco Salimbeni, and Interi. 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 decorative objects differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $61 and tops out at $195,000 while the average work can sell for $3,204.
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