Louis XV Decorative Objects

Pair of French Louis XV style bronze four light sconces Important antique pair of fire gilded bronze wall sconces. They are unusual and of exceptional quality. This rare model wit...

Art Deco, Inkwell Desk Set, Pen Holder, Marble, Bronze, 1920s Perched upon a portoro black and brown with gold veined marble base having a pen and pencil cut out sit a male and fema...

French large painted plaster bust replica of Corneilla Van Cleve (Signed by a French 18th Century artist) on round shaped base.  

Pair of Louis XV-style three-light convertible candelabra. These ornate well cast pieces feature scrolling foliate arms that can be detached, allowing the base to function as a stand...

Dimensions- H: 12 1/2in W: 12in D: 4in This late 19th Century Russian bronze ormolu sculpture of a boy is made of the highest quality! This antique sculpture features a lovely marb...

Indulge in the charm of 19th Century French artistry with this exquisite Louis XV Sevres style blue celeste vase, complete with its matching covers. Drawing inspiration from the eleg...

A French Louis XV style cherry planter from the mid-19th century, with cabriole legs, pierced quatrefoil motifs and tôle inset. Created in France during the 1850s, this cherry plante...

French four glass clock standing on a raised base with beaded decoration and fine Champleve enamel decoration to the pillars and bezel with fur...

The dark blue background of the porcelain vases stand on a gilded carved octagonal pedestal. The base is decorated with gilt scrolls of acanthus leaves and foliage. The front center ...

Charming pair of silver-plated candlesticks dating from the early 20th century, inspired by the elegant decorative vocabulary of the Louis XVI style. Their slender silhouette is enh...

Very large slurry box with parts in native wood veneer, marquetry nets and geometric decorations in marquetry on the top. The box rests on four arched feet in the Louis XV style. Thi...

A stunning and most impressive large size antique French cartel clock. Exquisitely hand-crafted in France in the 19th century, very fi...

Elegant pair of Louis XV style (second half of the 19th century) candlesticks, made of gilt bronze with chiseled finish and cobalt blue porcelain central body. I candelabri presentan...

This elegant pair of early 20th-century Italian candle holders showcases a timeless blend of luxurious materials and fine craftsmanship. Each candle holder features a rich rouge marb...

This exquisite French Dore’ Bronze Figural Mantel Clock is a masterful example of 19th-century craftsmanship, blending artistry, luxury, and functionality into one timeless piece. Th...

A Fine Italian 19th-20th Century Carved Alabaster Group of a Child with a Birdcage, depicting an infant boy Seated, naked, on a rocky base. After Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-85) - L'enfant a la Cage. In his outstretched left hand he holds an empty bird cage with an open door. This sculpture is one of the popular motifs of the period among secondary figures in paintings was the Italian putto...

Luxurious Louis XV Rococo style gilt bronze mantel garniture, dating from the 19th century, comprising a central clock and a pair of matching six-light candelabra. This ensemble sta...

A stunning, rare fine quality French gilt bronze mounted Kingwood marquetry bibus (miniature bibliothèque). In the manner of/possibly by celebrated ébéniste Maison Paul Sormani; the ...

French Louis XV-style (19th Century) silver plate cupid base compote with scalloped crystal bowl (CHRISTOFLE & CIE)

Large terracotta bust representing a lady of quality in the taste of the 18th century. Two-tone patina, white lacquered base. French work from the end of the 19th century. ...

A French Provençale Louis XV period miniature apprentice commode from the early 18th century, with lift top and cabriole legs. Born in Provence during the reign of King Louis XV, thi...

An 18th century Meissen porcelain sculpture of an elegant woman, Louis XV period. An 18th century Meissen porcelain sculpture of an elegant woman, Louis XV period, mythological figu...

18th century French large Vernis Martin gilt bronze cartel clock and console The impressive and large clock case decorated overall with very fine ‘Vernis Martin’ lacquer paint wit...

This magnificent Louis XV-style pendulum clock from the mid-19th century features elaborate Boulle marquetry and fire-gilded bronze appliqués in the form of rocaille, shell decoratio...

A very fine and palatial pair of French 19th century Louis XV style marble and gilt bronze mounted four-light figural candelabra by Henri Vian, (French, 1860-1905). The ovoid marble ...

FERNAND CIANCIANI called FERNAND CIAN Italy/France, 1889-1954 "Comtesse D'Artois, Maria Theresa of Savoy" Executed in the first quarter of the 20th century Signed "Fernand Cian 177...

A Fine Pair of French 19th/20th Century Gilt-Bronze Sculptures of "The Marly Horses" (Now turned into lamps) After the original by Guillaume Coustou (French, 1677-1746). The large pair of equestrian bronze sculptures, finished in a gold patina, each depicting rearing horses with their groom, both raised on oval a black slate and Bardiglio marble bases and fitted with modern electrical twin-light brass fittings and cream colored shades. The base on an ebonized wooden platform. Circa: Paris, 1900-1920. Sculpture & Base Height: 31 1/4 inches (79.8 cm) Base Width: 21 3/4 inches (55.3 cm) Base Depth: 12 3/4 inches (32.4 cm) Height to top of (Adjustable) shade fitting: 48 1/4 inches (122.6 cm) Shade Height: 15 inches (38.1 cm) Shade Width: 26 inches (66.1 cm) Shade Depth: 20 inches (50.8 cm) The original Marly Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou. They were commissioned by Louis XV of France for the trough at the entrance to the grounds of his château de Marly. Coustou's last works, they were intended to replace two other sculpted groups, Mercury on Pegasus and Pegasus, Renown of Horses, both by Antoine Coysevox, which had been removed to the Tuileries Gardens in 1719. Louis XV chose the modellos in 1743 and the full-size sculptures were completed in only two years, being installed at Marly in 1745. They proved highly successful in reproduction, particularly on a smaller scale, and prefigured Théodore Géricault and other Romantic artists' obsession with equestrian subjects. The Marly horses were later also used as the central motif of the monochrome 819-line RTF/ORTF test card which was used on TF1 from 1953 until 1983. The originals were moved to the place de la Concorde in Paris in 1794 and Louis-Denis Caillouette (1790–1868) restored them in 1840. In 1984 it was concluded that the annual military parades on 14 July were damaging the sculptures and they were replaced by marble copies produced by Michel Bourbon in the studio of a subsidiary of Bouygues. The latter also gained the right to an extra copy, which was placed in Bouygues's social building. The original sculptures were moved to a former courtyard in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre Museum, which was renamed the 'cour Marly' in their honour, whilst Bourbon's two main copies were moved to the originals' first site near the trough at Marly, with work overseen by the architect Serge Macel. Guillaume Coustou the Elder (29 November 1677, Lyon – 22 February 1746, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735. He is best known for his monumental statues of horses made for the Chateau of Marly, whose replicas now stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Coustou was a member of a family of famous sculptors; his uncle, Antoine Coysevox, was a royal sculptor; his elder brother, Nicolas Coustou was a sculptor, and his son Guillaume Coustou the Younger also become a noted royal sculptor. Like his older brother, he won the (Prix de Rome) of the Royal Academy which entitled him to study for four years at the French Academy in Rome. However, he refused to accept the discipline of the academy, gave up his studies, set out to make his own career as an artist. He worked for a time in the atelier of the painter Pierre Legros, and eventually returned to Paris. Upon his return to Paris, he assisted his uncle Coysevox in making two monumental equestrian sculptures, Fame and Mercury, for the Château de Marly, the new residence of Louis XIV near the Palace of Versailles, where he went to escape the crowds and ceremony of the Palace. He later (1740–1745), made his own horses, The Horses of Marly, his most famous works, to replace them. The horses reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the Horse Tamers in the Piazza Quirinale, Rome. They were commissioned by Louis XV in 1739 and installed in 1745 at the Abreuvoir ("Horse Trough") at Marly. The horses were considered masterpieces of the grace and expressiveness of the French Late Baroque or Rococo style. After the Revolution they were moved from Marly to the beginning of the Champs-Élysées on the Place de la Concorde. The originals were brought indoors for protection at the Louvre Museum in 1984. In 1704 Coustou was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The work he made to mark his entrance was Hercules on the Pyre, now in the Louvre. It displays the special hallmark of the Baroque, a twisting and rising transverse pose, as well as highly skillful carving. He rose to become Director of the academy in 1733. Another of his major works from his later career, the statue of Maria Leszczynska, (1731)is on display at the Louvre. Coustou also created two colossal monuments, The Ocean and the Mediterranean among other sculptures for the park at Marly; the bronze Rhone, which formed part of the statue of Louis XIV at Lyons, and the sculptures at the entrance of the Hôtel des Invalides. Of these latter, the bas-relief representing Louis XIV mounted and accompanied by Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution, but was restored in 1815 by Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's model; the bronze figures of Mars and Minerva (1733–34), on either side of the doorway, were not interfered with. In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne (both at the Louvre), in which Nicolas Coustou sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne. About the same time he was commissioned to produce another running figure in marble, a Hippomenes designed to complement an Atalanta copied from the Antique by Pierre Lepautre...

PAIR of French Louis XV (19th Cent) style green and white Sevres porcelain cornucopia design vases with parian child figures. One vase has a couple broken off pieces of gold leaf

A striking 19th-century French Louis XV style figural vase and decorative fountain attributed to Mathurin Moreau (1822–1912), the celebrated French sculptor known for elegant academi...

A superb quality antique French mantel clock, circa 1875. This Boulle style clock is made with red tortoiseshell typical of the period, and brass inlays to the case front and sides f...

A fine pair of French 19th century marble and ormolu mounted figural urn three-light table lamp candelabra. The ovoid white marble body surmounted with a pair of mermaids holding han...

Crafted in Rouen, France circa 1940, the antique ceramic planter sits on escargot feet over a scalloped apron. The oblong planter dressed with elegant s...

French Louis XV style (19th Cent) bronze dore small hanging winged cupid figure with draped flower.

FERNAND CIANCIANI called FERNAND CIAN Italy/France, 1889-1954 "Comte d'Artois (later Charles X, King of France)" Executed in the first quarter of the 20th century Signed "Fernand C...

Pair of patinated bronze and ormolu ewer vases French, late 19th century Measures: Height 54cm, width 23cm, depth 18cm Each vase in this pair, wrough...

Very beautiful fireplace clock in marble, patinated and gilded bronze representing the Virgin Mary sitting on a rock holding the infant Jesus in her arms, with at their side st John ...

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Avery fine 19th century French large mantel clock by Vannier Paris. This clock has very fine gilt bronze details with a large patinated bronze cherub in the center . Signed on the p...

Substantial porcelain pedestal bowl embellished with white medallions set on a sky blue background. On one side of the bowl, the medallion is decorated with a pastoral scene depictin...

Late 18th Century Small Limoges Enamel Salt Bowl, decorated with a pink ground with a yellow trellis pattern and hand-painted floral motifs (roses, blue flowers, green leaves), a met...

A very fine and charming pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XV style Belle Époque figural gilt-bronze chenets. The finely chased whimsical ormolu andirons, each surmounted with a...

Carved oak sculpture of a Saint, 18th century, Louis XV. An 18th century Louis XV carved oak sculpture of a Saint. Dimensions : H: 58cm, W: 20cm...

Silver plated metal planter in Louis XV style, early 20th century. Measures: H 16 cm, L 44 cm, D 14 cm.  Contact us before ordering to confirm product availability.

A White Marble candlestick set is hand-carved from White Marble as a set of four candlesticks in varying heights. The piece presents four White Marble candlesticks designed as a grad...

A Green Marble candlestick is hand-carved from Green Marble in a plate-base candlestick form. The piece presents a plate-base candlestick form in hand-carved Green Marble. Works equa...

A White Marble plate-base candlestick is hand-carved from White Marble in a plate-base candlestick form. The piece presents a refined plate-base candlestick in hand-carved White Marb...

A Black Marble plate-base candlestick is hand-carved from Black Marble in a plate-base candlestick form. The piece presents a refined plate-base candlestick in hand-carved Black Marb...

A White Marble candlestick is hand-carved from White Marble in an ovoid candlestick form. The piece renders a refined ovoid candlestick form in hand-carved White Marble. Works equall...

A Black Marble candlestick is hand-carved from Black Marble in a fluted column candlestick form. The piece renders the classical fluted column in Black Marble as a candlestick. Works...

A White Marble object is crafted from White Marble and decorated with Pietra Dura floral inlay executed in Carnelian, Malachite, and semiprecious stone. The piece presents a Mughal b...

A White Marble Pietra Dura vase is hand-carved from White Marble and fully inlaid with Pietra Dura stone in a Mughal vase composition. The piece renders a Mughal vase form entirely i...

A White Marble Pietra Dura bowl is hand-carved from White Marble and inlaid with Pietra Dura stone ornament across the interior and exterior. The piece covers both interior and exter...

"Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, 18th Century, Architectural Scene " 18th-Century French Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, Religious Architectural Scene Ori...

This exquisite Royal Blue Sevres Compote Centerpiece exemplifies the luxury and refinement of 19th-century French porcelain artistry combined with the e...

A French Gilt Bronze Mounted Rouge Marble Covered Urns/Casolettes, Attributed to François Linke The pair is modeled in covered urn or casolette form with broad baluster bodies carve...

prestigious pair of three-flame candelabra made entirely of solid bronze with beautiful original dark patina. Era: Late 19th century (ca. 1880-1900). Subject: Each candelabra is emb...

A unique pair of marble urns with decorative ormolu bronze mountings. The combination of the reddish pink marble and superb bronze work creates a striking contrast, emphasizing the d...

French Sevres biscuit porcelain bust after Versailles original signed "1703-1768 Coustou." The bust portrays King Louis XV's Queen consort Mar...

Early 20th Century French Louis XV 5 Arms Ornate, Cast Bronze Candelabra. Louis XV style French brass candelabra with five candle cups and nice cast details. In good vintage conditio...

French Louis XV style bronze winged cupid fragment (19th Cent)