Louis XVI Candle Holders
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.
Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Louis XVI
Louis XVI Style Putto Ormolu Patinated Bronze and Marble Candlestick
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This French candleholder, in the style of Clodion, is mounted on white statuary Carrara marble. The patinated putto holds a candle support of flowering acanthus leaves. Circular and rectangular marble shapes...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Carrara Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Cupid and Satyr Candelabras
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) gilt and patinated bronze candelabra with a cupid/satyr figure holding 2 foliate arms and raised on rouge marble bases (PRICED AS Pair)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Bronze Cupid Candelabras
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze seated cupids holding two two-armed candelabras on rouge marble and relief bases (signed CLODION) (PRICED AS Pair)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Marble, Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Figural Candelabra, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style patinated and gilt bronze figural two-light candelabra after a model by Claude-Michel Clodion (French, 1738-1814), one modeled...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Griotte Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Candelabra by H. Cahieux & F. Barbedienne, 1880
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI style candelabra signed H. Cahieux and F. Barbedienne, 1880. Each vasiform, patinated bronze candela...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Ebony Three-Light Desk Stand, circa 1820
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and ebony three-light desk stand.
French, circa 1820.
This elegant desk stand has an ebonized rectangular base with drawer, supporting a re-...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Cupid Candelabras with Marble Bases
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze large cupids holding torches candelabras on square shaped rouge marble bases (PRICED AS Pair)
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Marble, Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Figural White Bisque Candelabra
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of figural bisque porcelain (unglazed porcelain), candelabra each featuring a partially draped nude cupid sitting on a tree trunk holding aloft an urn which supports two curve...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Porcelain
Pair of 18th Century Louis XVI Period Gilt-Bronze Figures of Maidens as Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent pair of antique French Louis XVI period, 18th century gilt bronze and white Carrara marble figures of maidens mounted as Lamps. This magnificent pair of gilt bronze fig...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of French gilt bronze table candelabra
Located in London, GB
Pair of French gilt bronze table candelabra
French, 19th Century
Height 75cm, diameter 35cm
The fine gilt bronze candelabra in this pair are crafted ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Ormolu
18th C French Oil Lamp with tools
Located in Carmel, CA
This four candle oil lamp is French and is brass. The turned column is adjustable for height. The three tools include the stamp, scissors and poke. The ring finial is a hand and d...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Brass
Pair of Antique French Louis XVI Style Bronze Eight-Light Candelabra
Located in Montreal, QC
They are unusual in form, each with curved shaft and mask decoration issuing seven curved candle arms, and topped with one candle arm, all hung with hal...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Late 18th century Louis XVI Ormolu Candlesticks
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A very fine pair of Louis XVI period candlesticks of unusual form. Each with an ovoid white marble body issuing a floral spray with a flower head nozzle, supported by three curved mo...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
20th century Pair of French Bronze Doré Sconces
Located in Savannah, GA
Pair of bronze doré wall sconces featuring incredible detailed ormolu including festooned floral garlands, ribbons and tiny bow embellishments. Triple candle holders...
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1920s French Vintage Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilded Bronze Candelabra
Located in Hudson, NY
This lovely small pair of two-light candelabra are made in gilded bronze and were made in France around the turn of the century. Cast as a satyr holding up sinuous candle arms termin...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of red marble and gilt bronze table candelabra by Barbedienne
Located in London, GB
Pair of red marble and gilt bronze table candelabra by Barbedienne
French, 19th Century
Height 57cm, width 17cm, depth 15cm
The exceptional candelabra in this pair, by the famed mak...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century Green Marble Vase Candelabra with Bronze Doré Mounts
Located in Miami, FL
A lovely pair of French Louis XVI style candelabra with turned light-green-marble vase resting on tripod marble base with bro...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Patinated Marble and Bronze Candelabra
Located in New York, NY
Pair of finest quality and large early 19 century French Louis XVI style ormolu and patinated marble and bronze candelabra with figures ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Altar Candlestick
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully carved gilt altar piece with rich patina.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Wood
Bronze Four-Light Candelabra, 19th Century
Located in Stamford, CT
Bronze four-light candelabra, 19th century. A finely cast bronze candelabra with a bronze plaque in the center flanked by a pair of cobalt blue columns.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Pair of Louis XVI Style Three-Light Quiver Gilt-Bronze Sconce, attr. H. Vian
Located in Berlin, DE
Pair of Louis XVI Style Three-Light Gilt-Bronze Sconce, attributed to H. Vian
A pair of Louis XVI style three-light and quiver-shaped wall-lights, each issuing three arms from a fin...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Three-Light Candelabra
Located in London, GB
A pair of French Louis XVI style ormolu three-light candelabra with beaded decoration throughout, having garland swag decorated fluted stems ending on flut...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Late 18th Century Louis XVI Cassolettes Candleholders
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A fine pair of Louis XVI white marble and gilt bronze cassolettes in the form of atheniennes. Each with a domed and pierced cover to reveal the candleholder, the egg ovoid shaped whi...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Malachite, Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This majestic, neoclassical style clock set – the clock of which measures 1m and the candelabra 1m 11cm in height – will make a bold statement in an interior. With its magnificent pa...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
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Malachite, Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI White Marble Candlesticks With Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pair of unusual Louis XVI sculptured white marble candlesticks with gilt bronze mounts, 18th century. Italian or French.
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century French, Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Candelabras
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Candelabras.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Candelabra
Located in Hudson, NY
This pair of two-light candelabra are finely cast with great detail and fine hand chasing. The bronze work is in both matte and burnished gilding as well as patination making the wor...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Unusual 19th Century French rotary Clock Garniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare and very fine 19th century French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted white marble 3-piece Rotary (Annular) clock set comprising a clock and a pair of 3 arms candelabra.
The urn s...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of silver plated Louis XVI style candlesticks, Napoleon III period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of Louis XVI style two fires candleholders in chiseled and silvered plate. Oval tapered base standing on four decorated with a laurel wreath torus and cartouches. Central struct...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Crystal Candelabra
Located in Hudson, NY
A very nice pair of gilt bronze 5 light candelabra. The metal work finely gilded and chased. The casting is done with much detail and in...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Wall Candle Sconces with Mirror
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A pair of beautiful candle sconces. Made of Gilt bronze. All in Louis XVI style, with the classic ribbon and bow at the top and beaded rim. Inside the original beveled mirror glasses...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
A Rare and Exquisite Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Bloodstone Two-Light Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
A Rare Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Bloodstone Two-Light Candlesticks, Resting on Jasper Bases, Circa 1790
Transport yourself to the pinnacle of historical elegance with this extraordinar...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Pair of Candlesticks
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French 19th century pair of candelsticks
In ormolu, very finely chiseled and decorated with knotted garlands, branches of leafy flowers, spokes of hearts, leaves of water, pearls...
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1870s European Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Ormolu
Set of 3 Florentine Italian Louis XVI Candelabra in Mecca Carved Silver Wood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and elegant set of 3 Italian Florentine candelabra in Mecca carved wood and gilt silver dating from the mid to end of the 18th centur...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Wood
Pair of French Louis XVI Bronze Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI (19th Century) style gilt bronze fluted candlesticks with beaded trim and round base (re-gilded) (PRICED AS Pair).
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Bronze Doré Candelabra
Located in Belmont, MA
A pair of exquisite bronze doré (ormolu) candelabra. Excellent work with beautiful details.
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Louis Xvi candle holders for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI candle holders 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 candle holders created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, lighting, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI candle holders 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 candle holders, popular names associated with this style include Alexandre Vossion, Gherardo Degli Albizzi, Oggetti D'Arte, and Susse 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 candle holders differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $344 and tops out at $203,862 while the average work can sell for $6,738.
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