Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
NEOCLASSICAL STYLE
Neoclassical design emerged in Europe in the 1750s, as the Age of Enlightenment reached full flower. Neoclassical 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. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
As you can see from the furniture 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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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Neoclassical
Mid-19th Century French Neoclassical Giallo di Siena Marble Fireplace Surround
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A very fine mid-19th Century French neoclassical fireplace surround in golden vibrant Convent Giallo di Siena marble. A deep rectangular shelf with an ...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
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Siena Marble
18th Century French 'Pillars with Decoration' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
French neoclassical fireback with two decorated pillars, a flower and the date of production 1788.
The fireback is made of cast iron and has a black / pewter patina. It is in a go...
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18th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique French Neoclassical Fireback / Backsplash, 18th-19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
18th-19th century French neoclassical fireback.
The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown patina. Upon request it can be made black / pewter. It is in a good condi...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique French Neoclassical 'Pillars of Freedom' Fireback / Backsplash, 19th C.
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireback with two pillars of freedom. The pillars symbolize the value liberty, one of the three values of the French revolution. The date of producti...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique French 'Napoleon' Fireback / Backsplash, 19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireback with a portrait of Napoleon and other decoration.
The fireback is made of cast iron and has a black / pewter patina. It is in a good condit...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique French Neoclassical 'Ceres' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireback with the goddess Ceres. Goddess of agriculture (particularly grain) and the maternal love. Ceres is flanked by ...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
French 'Pillars with Marianne wearing the Phrygian Cap' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
French fireback with two pillars topped with Marianne wearing the Phrygian cap
The fireback commemorates the 8th year of the French Revolution. The Phrygian cap is the cap of Marian...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Monumental Bronze Iron Venus De Medici Statue
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A, near life-size, 19th century French cast iron statue depicting the Venus de Medici.
This statue is a high quality cast after the antique marble Ven...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
French 'Apollo and Satyr Marsyas' Fireback / Backsplash, 18th-19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
18th-19th century French Neoclassical fireback with Apollo and Satyr Marsyas. Marsyas challenged Apollo to a musical contest. He hoped to defeat Apollo with a flute thrown away by At...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
French Neoclassical 'Pillars of Freedom' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th-20th century French neoclassical fireback with two pillars of freedom. The pillars stand for the value liberty. This is one of the three values of the French revolution (liberté...
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Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Beginning 19. Century Stone Trough French Volvic Stone, Stone Sink,
Located in Epfach, DE
Beginning 19th century stone trough French volvic stone
An beginning 19thcentury stone trough from central French, which is worked out in one piece out of an volvic stone. You can us...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone
Pair of Italian Neoclassical Style Stone Paste Gardens Urns Hand Paint Mud Color
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a pair of Italian gardens urns made in agglomeration of sand of stones, stone sable add to the cement.
The result is a mixture very strong ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone, Cement
Marble Column, 20th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Tall column out of white marble and a naturally aged patina. The base is round, the shaft fluted and the capital with carved volutes and flower details.
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20th Century Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of 19th Century Decorative Painted Wooden Columns
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of elegant architectural painted wooden columns, classical pedestals and both are in good condition.
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Mid-19th Century Spanish Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wood
Statuary Marble and Scagliola Fire Surround after Pietro Bossi
Located in London, by appointment only
A white statuary marble neoclassical fire surround inlaid with classical vases, vine leaves and fruit with colored marbles.
England, 20th century
Measures: Height 130cm 51in
Width...
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20th Century English Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Large French 'Pillars with Phrygian Cap' Fireback / Backsplash, 18th-19th C.
Located in Amerongen, NL
18th-19th century French neoclassical fireback with two pillars of freedom topped with Phrygian caps.
The fireback was produced during or just after the French Revolution in 1815. T...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique Fireplace Mantel with a Wedgwood Central Table
Located in London, GB
A late 18th century, early 19th century neoclassical chimneypiece in white statuary marble, centred with a Wedgwood ' Bacchanal' tablet, with 3/4 round fluted Ionic columns fronting ...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Statuary Marble, Marble
Wrought Iron Pulpit Grille, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Wrought iron grating with thirteen bars with double pear and discs in their shafts, arranged in a circle with bars of the same flat material (circular and cross combined at the base ...
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18th Century European Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wrought Iron
Iron Andirons or Fire Dogs Pair, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of fireplace andirons. Iron, 19th century.
Pair of andirons for chimney made of iron formed by a horizontal piece to be placed under the firewood and another part at the decorative front (this one consisting of a rectangular plate finished in two facing scrolls and another vertical piece reminiscent of a column and finished off by a disk flat). Although there are elements such as the scrolls that already appear in the Romanesque forge, the lines of the andirons are more reminiscent of Neoclassical examples in some details."
Size: 32 x 80...
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19th Century European Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Large Antique French Neoclassical Fireback / Backsplash, 19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
Large 19th century French neoclassical fireback. The name of the owner and the date of production, 1842, are cast in the fireback
The fireback is made of cast iron and has a black /...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique French 'Marriage' Fireback / Backsplash, 19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireplace fireback cast in the honor of the marriage of Multon and Anne Le Pape in 1826. The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown pa...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Pair of Neoclassical Bronze Andirons, French, circa 1940
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This pair of andirons in the neoclassical style are made of brass and wrought Iron. They are French, circa 1940.
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1940s French Vintage Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Neoclassical Style Antique Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
The breakfront, moulded shelf above the frieze which is centred with a tablet carved with tazza shaped, lidded urn in statuary on sienna marble. This is flanked by bands of flutes; t...
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Mid-18th Century British Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
Large Red Granite and Bronze Column in Neoclassical Style
Located in Paris, FR
Important red granite and patinated bronze column in neoclassical style, with Corinthian capital. It is set on a circular, terraced base above a square plinth. 20th century French wo...
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Mid-20th Century French Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Georgian Cast Iron Hob Grate in the Manner of Robert Adam
By Robert Adam
Located in Manchester, GB
Georgian 18th century cast iron forest hob grate of good size in the manner of Robert Adam. Simple reed and bead design to the curved panels flanking the sweeping grate decorated wit...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Marble Planter, 21st Century
Located in Greding, DE
Planter out of white marble, standing on a square plinth with a conical foot and a large dish with gadrooned wall and cymatium frieze on the rim.
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21st Century and Contemporary European Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
19th C. French Neoclassical Fireback / Backsplash with 'Pillars of Freedom'
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireback with two pillars of freedom. The pillars symbolize the value liberty, one of the three values of the French revolution. The date of producti...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
19th Century English Fire Tools, Fireplace Tools
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century English fireplace tool set.
We have a unique and specialized collection of antique and used fireplace accessories consisting of more than 1000 listings at 1stdibs. Amongst others, we always have 500+ firebacks, 400+ pairs of andirons and 250+ sets of fireplace tools for sale...
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19th Century English Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Wrought Iron
French 19th Century Gilt Bronze Chenets
Located in London, GB
A pair of 19th century French chenets, gilded bronze, in the neoclassical taste, each with large flaming classical urn with Satyr mask hand...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
Late 18th or Early 19th Century Dutch Neoclassical Fireplace Tools of Fire Tools
Located in Amerongen, NL
Late 18th or early 19th century Dutch neoclassical fireplace tool set. It is made of wrought iron. The tool set is in a good condition and is fully functional.
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Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wrought Iron
Large Antique French Neoclassical 'Pillars of Freedom' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireback with two pillars of freedom. The pillars symbolize the value liberty, one of the three values of the French revolution.
The fireback is ma...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Iron Corbels Set, 19th-20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Set of three iron corbels used in some outstanding residence, decorated with scrolls, lines and other elements that could link the pieces with neoclassici...
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20th Century European Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Antique Fireplace Mantel of Neoclassical Style
Located in London, GB
An exceptional 18th century Irish neoclassical chimneypiece of statuary marble, inlaid with Pietra Dura specimens of Rosso Antico, Verde and Kilkenny black. Almost certainly from the...
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1770s British Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Pair of Neoclassical Style Green and White Marble and Ormolu-Mounted Pedestals
Located in London, GB
This pair of marble and gilt bronze pedestals represent a fine example of 19th century neoclassical design. Featuring beautiful green and white Vert d'Estours marble, each pedestal has a central marble column with Corinthian capital...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Chimneypiece Statuary and Siena Marbles
Located in London, GB
A late 18th century neoclassical chimneypiece statuary and Siena marbles. The central tablet is carved a wreath of wheat intersected by diagonally crossed thyrsi, and intertwining iv...
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Late 18th Century Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
19th Century French Neoclassical 'Diana' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French fireplace fireback with the goddess Diana. Goddess of hunting, also protector of animals of the forest, especially the young animals. She experienced great pleasu...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Large Ormolu Bust of Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome
Located in London, GB
This remarkable ormolu bust of the iconic Roman Emperor Julius Caesar is the epitome of neoclassical style design, and was originally intended as an overdoor decoration. Overdoors - ...
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Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Victorian Neoclassical Dog Grate
Located in Manchester, GB
Fine antique mid-Victorian dog grate of elegant proportions in the neoclassical style with a semi-circular grate and fan detail in the spandrels, above a cla...
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19th Century Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron, Brass
Window or Door Fittings, Wrought Iron, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Element of iron formed by several pieces strongly united to each other that has simple decoration based on rings and other details and serves to close a door or window. This type of ...
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18th Century European Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Neoclassical Brass and Wrought Iron Andirons, French, circa 1940
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This elegant pair of andirons in the neoclassical style is made of brass and wrought iron. This is a French work. Circa 1940.
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1940s French Vintage Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Small French Neoclassical Fireback / Backsplash with a Man, 19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French neoclassical fireback depicting an unknown man. The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown patina. Upon request it can be made black.
...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Mid 18th Century George III Neoclassical Statuary Marble Fireplace after Adam
Located in London, GB
A superb and rare George III, neoclassical fireplace, after a design by Robert Adam (1728- 1792) in Statuary marble with inlaid Etruscan style panels...
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Mid-18th Century Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Louis XVI Style French Gilt Bronze and Marble Pedestal
Located in London, GB
This refined pedestal is crafted from sumptuous materials and has an elegant and unusual shape. It could be used a standalone piece but would also make the perfect stand upon which to display a vase, urn...
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Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Victorian Burnished Cast Iron Coalbrookdale Chimneypiece
By Robert Adam
Located in London, GB
A very large and fine example of a Victorian burnished cast iron Coalbrookdale chimney piece in the Georgian neoclassical manner of Robert Adam. The decorative urn on the freeze bene...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
19th Century English Fire Tongs, Pince
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century English fireplace tongs made of wrought iron.
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19th Century English Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Iron and Bronze Andirons with Duck Heads, French, circa 1940
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This pair of andirons are made of iron with bronze duck heads. This is a French work attributed to Maison Jansen. Circa 1940
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1940s French Vintage Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Regency Period, Neoclassical Column Fireplace in White Statuary Marble
Located in London, GB
A good quality Regency period, statuary marble column fireplace made in Italy for the English market to a British Neo-Classical design.
The rectangular moulded tiered shelf abov...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone, Marble, Statuary Marble
18th Century Bossi Hand-Carved Statuary Marble Fireplace with Scagliola Inlay
By Pietto Bossi
Located in London, GB
This white hand-carved marble chimney-piece with Scagliola inlay and break fronted shelf attributed to Pietro Bossi who is known to have worked in Dublin from 1785-1798.
Not much is known about Pietro Bossi, although much inlay work of the late 18th century is commonly known as`Bossi-work'. An Italian craftsman, Bossi worked in Dublin from 1785-1798 and used colored marble inlay and also a colored paste inlay, known as Scagliola, on a white marble ground.
His designs are in the neoclassical style, a style disseminated by Robert Adam in 1770s. Bossi`s process was a closely guarded secret and was apparently carried out behind closed doors.
Although, there were other craftsmen producing this type of work, the present chimney-piece can be attributed to Bossi because it shares some distinctive decoration with other pieces strongly believed to be by him. The overall style is typical of Bossi.
This unique marble fireplace mantel-piece is believed to originate from a wing of Huntroyde Hall...
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Late 18th Century British Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
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Statuary Marble
Pair of Andirons in Gilded Bronze and Iron, France, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
The area closest to the fire is left undecorated. The front features two cupids with butterfly wings, detail usual in the 19th century, as are the eggs, shields and plant elements wh...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
French 'Pillars with Phrygian Cap' Fireback / Backsplash, 19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
French fireback with two pillars, four heads with a Phrygian cap, an angel and the date of production 1817.
The fireback was produced just after the Fren...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Early 19th Century English Regency Egyptian Style Fireplace in Statuary Marble
Located in London, GB
A magnificent and rare English Regency Neoclassical Egyptian style statuary marble fireplace carved to the highest quality, of the type popularised by Thomas Hope 17691831, in his highly influential Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807) with term jambs of Antinous Osiris...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Stone, Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique French Neoclassical Fireback / Backsplash, 19th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
19th century French fireback with an unknown man. The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown patina. Upon request it can be made black / pewter. The condition is good,...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Neoclassical French Fireback / Backsplash with Pillars of Freedom, Dated 1833
Located in Amerongen, NL
With the names of the persons who commissioned the original casting of the fireback. Most probably for a wedding in 1833. The fireback furthermore has two pillars of freedom. One of ...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Black Marble Pedestals
Located in London, GB
A pair of gilt-bronze and black marble antique Neoclassical pedestals
French, 19th Century
Height 103cm, diameter 45cm
Mounted upon larg...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
18th Century French Neoclassical 'Marriage' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
French neoclassical fireback cast in 1790 for the (usually just) married couple who's names are cast in the fireback.
This product weighs more than 65 kg / 143 lbs. All our products...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
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Iron
Antique 19th Century French 'Pillars' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Amerongen, NL
French fireback with the pillars of freedom, a name and the date of production 1851.
This product weighs more than 65 kg / 143 lbs. All our products that weigh 66 kg / 146 lbs or mo...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Iron
19th Century Statuary and Antico Verde Marble Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A 19th century statuary and Antico Verde marble fireplace in an earlier neoclassical style. With a tiered and moulded shelf above the double Gre...
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19th Century British Antique Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Antique Satinwood Mantelpiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Antique satinwood mantelpiece of fine quality in the George III Neoclassical taste. The jambs with twin fluted pilasters, capped with Corinthian capitals and under carved acanthus corbels...
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Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Satinwood
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Find a broad range of unique Neoclassical 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, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, iron and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Neoclassical 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 Brown Jordan, Russell Woodard, Woodard Furniture Co., and Michael Taylor. 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 $89 and tops out at $402,592 while the average work can sell for $2,800.
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