Moorish Decorative Objects
MOORISH STYLE
After the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the eighth century, Islamic Spain became a cultural mix of influences that shaped both private homes and religious spaces. Moorish design was the name given to this style, which evolved through the 15th century with vibrant tile work, horseshoe arches and lavish ornamentation, most visible at sites such as Granada’s Alhambra and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba. Moorish furniture was often similarly ornate, and featured pieces inlaid with wood, ivory and bone.
When European designers began studying Moorish art and architecture in the early 19th century, it led to a Moorish Revival. Appropriating the style’s decorative flourishes and architectural elements, it promoted a romantic view of Islamic design. Travelers could bring home a memento of what they witnessed in the Middle East, a trend that aligned with a fad for themed interiors. Men’s smoking rooms arranged with ottomans, divans and settees and inlaid tables were especially popular, as were cafés where coffee was served amid bead curtains and colorful floor mats. (Handwoven rugs are a centerpiece of Moorish interiors.) Octagonal rooms with domed ceilings were created for wealthy homes, frequently with furnishings like pipe stands, filigree plasterwork and arched doorways. The horseshoe arch is an iconic attribute of Moorish architecture that, in addition to Spain, can be found in Sicily, Morocco and elsewhere.
Several late 19th to early 20th-century movements featured Moorish touches. The American and English Aesthetic Movement, for example, borrowed liberally from global decorating styles, as seen in furniture designed by Lockwood de Forest, a New York-born artist who mixed Eastern and Western forms. The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau also references the elegant use of geometry in Moorish design, with Milanese Art Nouveau furniture designer Carlo Bugatti drawing inspiration from the style. The Arts and Crafts movement, which prized expressive yet simple design, incorporated Moorish influences; hand-painted furniture and tile work created by William De Morgan, a British designer and potter who made furnishings for the likes of Morris & Co., were informed by techniques from Moorish Spain.
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Style: Moorish
Polished Brass Islamic Moorish Style Desk Inkwells Set
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Early 20th century desk set, rare and great quality Mamluk Cairoware style, silver and copper inlaid brush and inkwell holder and ink blotter rocker, features a wood base with ornate...
Category
19th Century Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Large Moroccan Moorish Hurricane Metal Candle Lantern
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Moroccan Moorish metal candle lantern.
Hurricane candle lamp handcrafted in Morocco by artisans, metal hand-cut openwork hammered with Moorish design, open in front for use with pillar candles.
The lantern has a small door to access the inside.
Many of our customers place oil candles or tea lights inside the main section making a romantic and enjoyable decorative accent for entertaining friends and family.
In a convenient portable size, may be suspended from loops or installed on any surface, as a sconce on a wall bracket or as a hurricane candle lantern...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Handcrafted Middle Eastern Sadeli Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large exquisite handcrafted Middle Eastern Egyptian mosaic marquetry sadeli inlaid wood jewelry box.
Dome chest intricately decorated with Moorish motif des...
Category
20th Century Egyptian Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
Pair of fine 19th century Orientalist male and female figures by Eugène Cornu
By Eugène Cornu
Located in New York City, NY
Exquisitely sculpted with meticulous attention to detail, these finely chased metal sculptures by Eugène Cornu offer a remarkably realistic rendition. The male figure is depicted as...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Hand Painted Middle Eastern Qajar Style Picture Photo Album
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Middle Eastern Qajar early 1900s Persian style picture photo album, with hand painted miniature on the cover.
Middle Eastern scrapbook is hand painted with 22-karat gold, wi...
Category
Late 19th Century Asian Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Paper
Moroccan Hurricane Metal Candle Lantern Indoor or Outdoor
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Moorish metal candle lantern. Hurricane candle lamp handcrafted in Morocco by artisans, metal hand-cut openwork and hammered with Moorish design, open in front for use with ...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Hand Painted Middle Eastern Moorish Style Photo Album, 19th Century
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Middle Eastern Qajar style Moorish picture photo album, with hand painted miniatures on the cover.
This fine Middle Eastern Moorish style scrapbook is hand painted with 22-k...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Paper
Cold Painted Austrian Orientalist Man on Rug in Prayer, Bergmann, ca. 1915
Located in Petaluma, CA
This very colorful and exotic bronze is typical of the work of Franz Bergmann. While it does not bear his foundry mark, it has all the ear marks of his work. The subject, the qualit...
Category
1910s Austrian Vintage Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Persian Lacquer Pen Box Hand Painted with Floral and Gilt Design
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Persian hand painted lacquer pen box in rectangular shape.
Decorated with floral designs on gold background, black interior.
Moorish Mughal pen box papier maché with miniature floral painting in the Persian style.
Great Islamic Art collector museum quality piece on this miniature painting on box.
Nice Mughal Indo Persian pen Box...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Paper
Middle Eastern Micro Mosaic Handcrafted Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite handcrafted Middle Eastern mosaic marquetry inlaid wood box.
Small octagonal box intricately decorated with a miniature painting of an old man with a textile in his hand motif and inlaid with mosaic marquetry.
Middle Eastern, Asian micro mosaic box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Azerbaijani Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
Vintage Hand Painted Ceramic Moroccan Vase or Urn
Located in Plainview, NY
This beautiful hand painted ceramic Moroccan round vase or urn Features wonderfully intricate and imaginatively sequenced hand painted designs. This colorful, round, orb-like ceramic...
Category
1990s Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Middle Eastern White Mosaic Moorish Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite handcrafted Middle Eastern Lebanese mosaic marquetry wood box.
Small vintage walnut Syrian style box intricately decorated with Moorish m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Lebanese Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Abalone, Shell, Fruitwood
20th Century Stoneware Matte Dish with Ornamentals Relief Motifs
Located in Miami, FL
20th century Stoneware Matte dish with ornamentals relief motifs.
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Moorish Glass Perfume Bottle Sprinkler with Embossed Metal Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Handcrafted Moroccan Moorish glass perfume bottle or rose water sprinkler with raised embossed silvered metal floral design over amber glass.
The pressed glass bottle in Art Deco, Art Nouveau style is oval shape with curved sides and hand decorated with embossed metal silvered overlay.
This has a long metal top spout that unscrews so the bottle can be filled to pour the perfume or rose water into this little luxe bottle.
This is a recycled vintage French perfume bottle Reve D'Or and mark in the bottom by "L T Piver Paris".
Handcrafted in Marrakech, Morocco by skilled artisans that used recycle perfume bottle and add the metal overlay...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Vintage Moroccan Hazel Atlas Amethyst Triangle Pair of Ashtrays
By Hazel-Atlas
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan amethyst set of two ashtrays from the 1950s.
Small individual ashtrays
Vintage hazel atlas Moroccan amethyst ashtrays glass in a triangle ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass
Vintage Moroccan Handmade Blue and White Vase
Located in Plainview, NY
Featuring wonderfully intricate and lyrical hand painted designs, this bright, colorful ceramic vase provides a touch of exotic sophistication an...
Category
1990s Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Moroccan Painted Wood Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique Moroccan wood box painted on all six sides with symbolic floral designs over an architecturally intriguing form and a removable pitched lid.
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Zsolnay Bright Yellow and Ochre Glazed Globular Earthenware Ewer
By Zsolnay
Located in Charleston, SC
Zsolnay Bright Yellow and Ochre Glazed Globular Earthenware Ewer
A ZSOLNAY BRIGHT YELLOW AND OCHRE GLAZED GLOBULAR EARTHENWARE EWER, WITH GILT DETAIL, roughly 5.5” H, IMPRESSED PECS ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hungarian Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
Arabian Middle Eastern Brass Islamic Art Vase Engraved With Arabic Calligraphy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Middle Eastern Islamic brass repousse bowl, finely hand-etched, engraved, hammered and chased with elaborate Moorish designs decorated with medallions of Arabic calligraphy inscripti...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Moroccan Orange Blue and White Handcrafted Vintage Ceramic Vase
Located in Plainview, NY
This beautiful hand painted decorative vase features a mesmeric arabesque pattern and inviting colors of red, orange and blue. Perfect a as an elegant centerpiece on your dining room...
Category
1980s Moroccan Vintage Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Moroccan Antique Large Tribal Drinking Flask in Polished Brass
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan antique tribal drinking flask gunpowder large brass flask polished and decorated with semi precious glass stones and filigree metal.
Huge antique copper and brass decorative bottle, flask wall hanging sculpture.
Large brass circular canteen, water, drinking flask.
The front of the brass canteen is decorated with the repoussé technique and hammering and is overlay with brass filigree and semi precious glass stone.
Has a two hooks to add a strap.
Collector decorative handcrafted drinking, or powder flask...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Silvered Metal Lidded Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Silvered metal lidded box of a circular form for powder kohl eye liner.
Designed into two detached sections, finely handcrafted and decorated with scrollwork designs with a yellow amber stone on the top lid and lots of great detail.
Berber Kabyle box container to hold loose powder kohl eye liner.
Made of silver tone metal with filigree scales with a coral stone.
A beautiful antique example of a traditional box handcrafted by Berber Women in Kabylie, Algeria.
The circular container is richly decorated with detailed raised filigree silver work.
Decorated with an amber color cabochon on the cover top.
An amazing collector’s piece due to its rarity and the beauty of its intricate workmanship.
Collector collyrium kohl pot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Algerian Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Vintage Brass Moroccan Double Inkwell
Located in San Diego, CA
Double inkwell with brass latched cover with hinged open mechanism. Colorful and intricate patterns abundant in Islamic arts were hand painted on front, s...
Category
1960s Moroccan Vintage Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Three Piece Moorish Style Jar and Bowl Collection
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An oval bowl with deep repousse decoration of foliate scrolls with flowers alternating with palmettes, with a dark patina in the background. The inside hand hammered around a leafy surround of the center.
Measures: Length 11 1/2", Depth 8 `1/2", H. 2 1/4"
Along with two graduated faceted glass...
Category
20th Century Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
Moorish Hand-Etched Metal Brass Pot
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Small brass Middle Eastern Moorish bowl finely and heavily hand-etched and hand carved with brass repousse and decorated with Arabic inscription...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Moroccan Hurricane Metal Candle Lantern
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Moorish metal candle lantern with open metal work Moorish design.
Hurricane candle lamp handcrafted in Morocco by artisans, metal hand-cut and...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Vintage Decorative Moorish Bowl Blue and White
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage decorative Moorish bowl blue and white.
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Moorish Candlestick in Brass and Hardstones Attributed to Tiffany, USA, 1920s
Located in Milan, IT
Candlestick in brass and hardstones attributed to Tiffany, USA, 1920s.
Category
1920s American Vintage Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone, Brass
Incised Pair of 17th Century Ottoman Bronze Candlesticks
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Beautiful and rare museum quality pair of incised of 17th Century Ottoman bronze candlesticks. They are virtually identical to the one pictured on...
Category
17th Century Turkish Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Tall Moroccan Glaze Decorated Ceramic Lidded Jar
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A tall necked footed jar with twin handles and a tall lid. Decorated overall in blue and yellow on white floral scrolls and medallions with floral baskets.
H. 38", Diameter 14", Di...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Moorish Style Monumental Palace Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Middle Eastern Moorish style (19/20th Cent) monumental palace vase with red, white, and black enamel decoration (AS IS).
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Moorish Bronze Man Bust
Located in Queens, NY
Middle Eastern Moorish style bronze bust of a man with a turban on round shaped base (19/20th Cent.).
Category
19th Century Antique Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Alhambra Palace Granada Handmade Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Handmade Alhambra Palace Moorish Jewelry Box – 1950s Granada, Spain
Bring the grandeur of Islamic architecture into your home with this stunning vintage jewelry box, handcraf...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
Engraved Brass Vase
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Old Moorish or Syrian style brass with fine designs. It was transformed in a table lamp, but it's so nice like that, without anything else.
Leaning on a landing: it's perfect.
Category
Mid-20th Century Syrian Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Early 20th Century Vintage Boho Patinated Metal Bust of a Moorish Man
Located in west palm beach, FL
Embrace the eclectic charm of Boho style with this vintage patinated metal bust of a Moorish man. Crafted with intricate detail and rich character, this piece exudes a timeless allur...
Category
Early 20th Century American Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Murano Glass Signed Sculpture, Important Rare Centerpiece
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Smart Venetian centerpiece, signed Signoretto and dated 1980 : very important unique piece !
Handles: Two moors black heads with turbans.: it's a ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass
Pair of Bronze Candlesticks Figural People Olympic Torch Bearer Women 19"H
Located in Greer, SC
Beautiful pair of bronze candlesticks featuring an Olympic torch bearer. Made from high-quality bronze, making these a unique set to add to your home d...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Moorish Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Moorish decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Moorish 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, folk art, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Moorish decorative objects made in a specific country, there are Africa, North Africa, and Maghreb pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative objects, popular names associated with this style include Berber Tribes of Morocco, Mamluke, Bergmann Foundry, and Reuge Ste-Croix. 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 $95 and tops out at $125,000 while the average work can sell for $850.
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