Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
LOUIS XVI STYLE
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
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Style: Louis XVI
Pair of Louis XVI Style Filigreed Bronze Dore Andirons
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI style bronze dore double urn and festoon design andirons.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Bronze
Louis XVI Style Arabescato Marble Fireplace with Brass Ormolu Enrichments
Located in London, GB
A 19th century French Louis XVI style Arabescato marble fireplace. The frieze enriched with ormolu guilloche, the jambs with ormolu acanthus leaves leading to laurel leaf centre moul...
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19th Century British Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
Pair of French Louis XVI Style, Two-Toned Carrera and Grey Marble Pedestals
Located in New York, NY
Neoclassical pair of palatial antique French Louis XVI style hand-carved Carrera white and grey marble pedestals of unusual form embellished with raised three dimensional neoclassica...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Sphinx Chenets
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet.
Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet...
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
White and Grey Louis XVI Style Marble Mantel
Located in Montreal, QC
White and grey Calacata Louis XVI style marble mantel. Interior dimensions: W: 40.25" W: 33.75"
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Large French Louis XVI Style Marble Mantel Piece
Located in London, GB
An elegant French Louis XVI style Saint Anne des Pyrenees marble fireplace, with carved capitals in Statuary marble. The jambs with half round columns surmounted by carved acanthus l...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Louis XVI Rouge Griotte Marble Mantel 'FR-NY53'
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI with Laurel leaf ormolu banding carved in Rouge Griotte marble. Opening Dimensions: 43" W x 32.5" H.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Griotte Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Grey Marble Column Pedestals
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI style (19/20th Cent) grey marble fluted column pedestals with square top.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Andirons
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19/20th Century) gilt bronze andirons with a lyre centered between two acorn finials (with a double iron shank) (PRICED AS Pair)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Gold Leaf, Bronze, Iron
Pair of Louis XVI Bronze Dore Andirons
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze dore andirons with fluted design and cupids on base with scroll back. (PRICED AS Pair)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Bronze Urn Andirons
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze andirons/chenets with centered urn having festoons through each side handle with a flame finial top. (PRICED AS Pair)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Rouge Griotte Marble Mantel with Statuary Marble Corner Blockings
Located in New York, NY
An elegant Louis XVI mantel in Rouge Griotte marble with corner blockings and centre tablet finely carved in statuary marble. Opening dimensions: 42.25" W x 34" H.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Griotte Marble
Antique Marble Mantel
Located in Made, NL
Beautiful antique mantelpiece made of black marble, called Noir de Mazy. This beautiful type of marble comes from Belgium, but is becoming increasingly rare, because the quarries whe...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Style Patinated Gilt Metal Chenets
Located in Germantown, MD
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Patinated Gilt Metal decorated acorn Chenets. Measures 14" in width and stand 9" tall. Listing is for the pair. Not per item
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Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Antique Louis XVI Fireplace in Seravezza
Located in London, GB
An antique Louis XVI marble fireplace in finely veined seravezza marble. The crisply moulded shelf sits above a panelled frieze, fra...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Antique Fireplace of Levanto Marble from the 19th Century in Style of Louis XVI
Located in Made, NL
Special antique fireplace of Levanto marble from Italy. This fireplace dates from the 19th century and is in the style of Louis XVI. This fireplace has beautiful flutes in the front ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
19th Century Fireplace in Style of Louis XVI
Located in Made, NL
Authentic French limestone fireplace with beautiful decorations in the front area. This elegant mantle surround dates from the 19th century and is in the style of Louis XVI. The beau...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Louis XVI Style Fireplace in White Carrara Marble
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Louis XV style fireplace in white Carrara marble Hearth dimensions: 90 x 83cm.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Antique French Beccia Marble Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A delicately veined blue/grey and white Breccia Marble antique chimneypiece in the French Empire style with a slow arched opening and deep side returns. French, circa 1860.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of Marble Urns with Cherubs, Signed A. Moreau
Located in Cypress, CA
Impressive large pair of French Louis XVI style hand carved white marble urns with cherubs, signed A.Moreau.
Highly attractive and very decorative.
la...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Large French Louis XVI Style Wood Jardinière or Planter with Divided Zinc Insert
Located in Birmingham, AL
Fabulous Louis XVI style wood jardinière from a hotel near Èze, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France, having typical neoclassical carved and ebonized lo...
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1910s French Vintage Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Zinc
19th Century Rich Sculpted Louis XVI White Carrara Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A rich and beautiful 19th century antique French sculpted Louis XVI white Carrara marble fireplace mantel.
Hand-carved with a serpentine shelf with, detailed frieze which is powerful...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Carrara Marble, Marble
Palatial Antique French Louis XVI Style White Marble and Gilt Bronze Mantle
Located in New York, NY
A palatial and magnificent large antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted carved white marble fireplace of exceptional workmanship embellished with superb gilt bronze mounts.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Fireplace in Statuary and Sienna Marble
Located in London, GB
A 19th century French Louis XVI antique fireplace in veined Statuary and Italian Siena marble. The carved frieze with Neo-Classical urn to centre, flanked by drapery. The inlaid stop...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Statuary Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Style Ormolu Chenets / Andirons by Bouhon Freres, 19th Century
Located in Berlin, DE
A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu chenets, cast by Bouhon Fre`res, Paris, late 19th century. Each modelled with two flaming athe´niennes supported by hoof monopodiae surmounted by ram...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Wrought Iron
19th Century Louis XVI Style French Caen Limestone Mantel
Located in New York, NY
A caen limestone 19th century French mantel with a carved urn across the frieze in the Louis XVI style with en trumeau. Opening dimensions: 45" W x 35.5" H.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Louis Xvi building and garden elements for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI building and garden elements 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 building and garden elements created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include building and garden elements, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with stone, marble and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI building and garden elements made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original building and garden elements, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Henry Dasson, François Linke, and Bouhon Frères. 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 building and garden elements differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3 and tops out at $500,000 while the average work can sell for $9,909.
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