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Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Garnitures
Located in Norwood, NJ
French 19th Century Louis XVI gilt bronze garnitures mounted on fluted white Carrara marble and black marble bases with ram's head and flame moti...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Carrara Marble, Gold Plate, Bronze

Hand-Diamond Cut and Champleve Enamel Signed Baccarat Centerpiece/Floral Vase
Located in New York, NY
A unique and quite beautiful Orientalist style hand-diamond cut and Champleve enamel signed Baccarat centerpiece/floral vase. This is a truly unique centerpiece, as it serves dual pu...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Crystal, Enamel

Early 19th Century Baluster Vase in Porcelain Paris Painted and Gilded by Hand
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Elegant baluster Paris porcelain vase painted and gilded by hand. The two sides represent a different decoration, on one side a scene of a gentleman conversing with a woman leaning o...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of lapis and gilt bronze krater vases
Located in London, GB
Each krater form vase in this pair is made of gilt bronze mounted lapis lazuli. The vases stand on square gilt bronze bases which attach to the feet of the vases with acanthus leaf g...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Lapis Lazuli, Ormolu, Bronze

Rare Louis XVI Russian Ormolu Mounted Agate Vase with Dore Bronze Swan Handles
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent Louis XVI Style Russian ormolu-mounted covered agate vase or Urn with finely hand-chiseled and Cast doré Bronze Swan Handles. This marvellous baluster form covered vase...
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1830s Russian Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Agate, Bronze

Pair of French Louis XVI Style Urn Form Gilt Bronze Mounted Granite Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of unique French Louis XVI Style urn form gilt bronze mounted pink and black granite lamps on square bases embellished with gilt bronze figural mas...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Granite, Bronze

Vintage 19th Century Palace Size Sevres Covered Urn
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage antique 19th century Sevres Porcelain covered urn is masterfully hand painted & depicts an elaborate woodlands scene featuring a young maiden positioned on a swing festo...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Baccarat Crystal and Dore Bronze-Mounted Centrepiece or Jardinière
Located in New York, NY
An unusual antique Baccarat crystal and Dore bronze-mounted oval shaped centrepiece, the removable oval shaped crystal bowl, beautifully hand-cut and engraved with floral and vine de...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Crystal, Bronze

A Pair of French Louis XVI Style Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Urns
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of French Louis XVI style bronze mounted cut crystal urns
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

18th Century French Provencal Ceramic Centerpiece, Louis XVI Style
Located in Miami, FL
Traditional 18th century French Louis XVI Provençal table fountain, today's use a lovely centerpiece. This beautiful item is quite tall and will look stunning on any piece of furnitu...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Antique French Vases in Red Alabaster and Gilt Bronze
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of urns in the Louis XVI Manner. Carved from Egyptian Alabaster Rosso and dressed with gilt-bronze mounts, rising from in-curved square stepped bases, the twin-handled...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Alabaster, Ormolu, Bronze

Monumental Palace Size Pair of French Sèvres Porcelain and Ormolu-Mounted Ewers
Located in New York, NY
A monumental and rare pair of antique French hand-painted Sèvres celest blue color porcelain and ormolu-mounted Ewers. Each very finely hand-painted with courting lover scenes in pol...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Ormolu, Gold

Fine 19th Century French Sèvres Style Porcelain & Doré Bronze-Mounted Ewers
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of 19th century French Sèvres style Porcelain and ormolu-mounted ewers which are hand painted in Sèvres celest blue color porcelain. Each ewer is very finely hand pa...
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Pair of Mid-19th Century Vases in Ural Granite and Gilt Bronze, Louis XVI Style
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of Ural granite and gilt bronze ornamental vases in Louis XVI style. Young women in gilt bronze sit on the shoulders of the granite vases to form the handles, their backs bent s...
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1850s Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Granite, Bronze

19th Century French Louis XVI Clock Garniture with Sévres Porcelain and Ormolu
Located in London, GB
A Garniture de Chemineé in the Louis XVI taste By Arnold & Lewis (late Simmons) The mantle clock, and its two matched vases, are constructed in jewelled 'Sèvres' style porcelain, hand and polychrome decorated, with gilt highlights and finely gilt bronze. The clock, rising from toupie feet, supports a rectangular base frame with rounded ends, set with cast stiff leaf decoration, and having inset Roi de Bleu and gilt work panels; over, the circular porcelain dial, signed by the maker (qv) has Roman numerals and blued steel hands, and is set over a central porcelain panel with a bucolic scene, and flanked by elliptical female portraits; the ends are curved and conformingly polychrome and gilt decorated; the whole is surmounted by a decorated twin handled urn, having a pine cone finial, set on an addorsed acanthi gilt bronze base. The two train clock...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Louis XVI Onyx Vase
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI onyx vase. Hand-carved antique onyx Louis XVI vase of modernist form, Italy, circa 1780. Dimensions: 6" dia top x 8" H; 4" dia bottom.
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Onyx

Late 19th Century Sevre Style Porcelain and Ormolu Assembled Ganiture
Located in London, GB
The bodies of the three pieces delicately painted with scenes of romantic courtship signed by the artist on a background of raised gilt and royal blue.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Spectacular 18th Century Carved Limestone Garden Vase, France 1780.
Located in Brussels, BE
Beautifully carved with vines, grapes, Bacchus heads, acanthus leaves on a gordon base. Fine patina -end of 18th century. Probably French.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Limestone

Pair of Large Louis XVI Style Cobalt Blue Sevres Bronze Mounted Urns
Located in New York, NY
Pair of finest quality and palatial cobalt blue Sevres porcelain bronze mounted urns with ram's head motifs.  
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1880s Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Splendid Lided Vase Marble in the Style of Louis XVI Bronze
Located in Berlin, DE
Bordeau red marble with grey white flecking. Egg-Fomed body connected with wide ornamental relief and interrupted circlet. Ornamented with engraved classicist basket work, on both si...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble

Antique Pair of Decorative Vases in Royal Blue Porcelain and Gilt
Located in London, GB
A pair of gilt bronze and porcelain vases. Rising from a rounded cut-corner square marble base, the miniature blue de roi-glazed porcelain ewers dressed with gilt bronze mounts; t...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze, Ormolu

Antique Spanish Carved Limestone Garden Vases
Located in Vulpellac, Girona
18th century carved limestone garden vases with original patina of the period. A beautiful addition to any landscape design.  
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18th Century Spanish Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Limestone

Pair of Louis XVI Ormolu Mounted White Porcelain and Dore Bronze Covered Bowls
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of 19th century Louis XVI style French ormolu-mounted white porcelain and doré bronze ram's head handle covered bowls. Each bowl is of t...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble Urns Attributed to Maxime Secrétant, circa 1890
By Maxime Secretant
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted Bleu Turquin marble urns with Satyr masks, attributed to Maxime Secrétant. French, circa 1890. ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of 19th Century Russian Jasper Vases in Louis XVI Style
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of large, ornamental jasper urns from Russia with ormolu mounts. The handles are formed with scrolling acanthus leaves and they hold in place a piece o...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

Monumental Pair of French Paris Porcelain Botanical Painted Vases with Rams Head
Located in New York, NY
A monumental and palace size pair of green Paris porcelain vases exquisitely hand-painted with botanical still life panel on one side and lovers in a royal garden on the reverse. The...
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1840s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

Pair of French Louis XVI Period Gilt Bronze and Agate Vases
By Martin Baffert
Located in London, GB
These truly exceptional and rare antique Louis XVI period vases have been sculpted from agate, a precious and highly sought-after stone. The vases are set on square agate bases with gilt bronze laurel wreath socles. The burgundy and claret agate bodies of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze acanthus leaf ornamentation, and twin lion masks joined by draped swags above. The lids of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze, surmounted by pine cone finials. The vases' design is attributed to the late 18th century, French clockmaker Martin Baffert. Baffert worked with a number of Parisian bronziers including Jean-Nicholas Fremont, Nicolas-Guillaume Jourdan and Francois-Robert Leguel, who assisted in the creation of his designs. This pair of vases is very similar to another pair of vases which Baffert designed, which form part of a clock garniture currently in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Rothschild vases...
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Agate, Bronze, Ormolu

Pair of French Louis XVI Empire Style Onyx and Bronze Lidded Urn Cassolettes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large pair of 20th century urn form lidded cassolettes in onyx and bronze in the French Louis XVI taste (The lids are affixed and not removable). The pair features the most dramatic ...
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20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Onyx, Bronze

Pair of Ormolu and Porphyry French Antique Cassolettes
Located in London, GB
The concave form rounded central porphyry vases adorned with flowers and fruit decorations in ormolu and flanked by ormolu snake form twin handles, all supported on square porphyry a...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porphyry, Ormolu

Large Pair of 19th Century Sevres Style Lidded Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of 19th century French 'Sevres' style gilded ormolu lidded vases, 82cm(32") high. Each having blue ground, classical painted...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Ormolu

Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonné Garniture. France, 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt-bronze and cloisonné garniture, France, 19th century. Clock works.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze, Enamel

Gilt Bronze and Pink Sevres Style Porcelain Antique Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This exquisite pink porcelain clock set is made in the Louis XVI style and comprises of two vases flanking a central clock. The porcelain clock dial is delicately painted and bears a...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Ormolu

Louis XVI Style Clock Garniture, Gilt Bronze Marble, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Two cups on pedestals and a clock. The French style known as Louis XVI is characterized by its inspiration in classicism and covers approximately from 1760 to 1789. In the 19th cent...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble Urns
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of French marble and gilded ormolu lidded urns. Rams head mounts to the side and scrolling foliate and swag decoration.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of Louis XVI Style Covered Vases Attributed to Samson & Cie, France, c.1890
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of Louis XVI style baluster shaped covered vases attributed to Samson & Cie, made in porcelain with green background and gold dots, flanked by two applied handles made of white ...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

A Nice Pair of Onyx and Silvered Bronze Ornamental Vases
Located in Antwerp, BE
A good pair of antique marble cassolette. A nice pair of onyx and silvered bronze ornamental vases in the Robert Adam style. The three feet resting on circular onyx bases and decora...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Onyx, Marble, Metal, Bronze

Elegant Pair of French Louis XVI Style Double-Handled Spelter-Metal Urns
Located in San Francisco, CA
Each gracefully-shaped urn reminiscent of classical antiquity with graceful neck above a tapering body flanked by mask handles; all-over a wooden base.
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Metal

Louis XVI-Style Pair of Vases with Bronze Stands
Located in Belmont, MA
Introducing a stunning pair of glass vases with exquisitely decorated bronze stands, evoking the timeless elegance of the Louis XVI style from the 19th century. These remarkable vase...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Pair of French Louis XVI Style Ormolu and White Marble Urns
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI style ormolu mounted white marble urns hung with berried floral garlands (early 20th Cent) (PRICED AS Pair)
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

19th Century Louis XVI Marble and Ormolu Large Urns
Located in Hixson, TN
A large pair of Louis XVI style marble (Hauteville) urns with extra ordinary ormolu mounts. The mounts (excellent condition and color) supported putti's, flame tips on the caps, to t...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble

Pair of Antique French Louis XVI Style Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Fine Antique French Louis XVI style enameled and gilded porcelain lamps.
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Late 18th Century Brown Painted Batavia Trumpet Vases ‘Could Be Lamps’
Located in London, by appointment only
These trumpet vases are European and were made to copy Chinese porcelain vases being exported to Europe from China. This pattern is known as Batavia and is characteristic with th...
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Late 18th Century German Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic, Pottery

A Fine 18th Century Continental German Porcelain Decorated Urn
Located in New York, NY
Continental German (Berlin, late 18th Cent) porcelain pink and white decorated urn with a finial top cover and ram head sides, signed on bottom
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Late 18th Century German Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

French Marble Clock and Garniture Set, Louis XVI Style
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
French marble clock and garniture set, Louis XVI style. Crystal regulator clock with marble base and pillars, surmounted with cast bronze panthe...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

Pair of Louis XVI Paris Porcelain Urns with Landscapes, circa 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine pair of Paris porcelain vases on pedestal bases, featuring landscape scenes within acid-etched gilt borders. The body of each vase with a green ground, above and below with gi...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Paint, Porcelain

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Vert De Maurin Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fine pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Maurin marble and ormolu urns. Each urn is raised by a square marble base with a fine wrap around beaded ormolu band at the s...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

French 19th Century Pair of Cassolettes Convertible in Candlesticks
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French 19th century Pair of Cassolettes Convertible in Candlesticks Pair of cassolettes in Bleu Turquin marble and ormolu ornamentation. Tripod base finished in sabots and decorated ...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of Palace Size Sevres ‘Labors of Cupid' Ormolu & Cobalt Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of palace size Sevres "Labors of cupid" ormolu and cobalt urns France, 20th century A magnificent pair of palace-sized Sevres "Labors of Cupid" ormolu...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Enamel, Ormolu

Hand-Diamond Cut Crystal & Ormolu Mounted Baccarat Centerpiece/Surtout de Table
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent museum quality French 19th century hand-diamond cut crystal and ormolu-mounted Baccarat centerpiece/surtout de table in the Louis XVI style. This is truly an exemplary piece. The crystal center bowl is all hand-diamond cut with illustrious detail. Two different patterns are found on the bowl, which includes a gorgeous octagonal raised crystal design adjacent to a fluted convex crystal design. Details are not skimped on the upper rim of the bowl, with a beautiful cut-crystal scalloped motif. The center bowl is mounted on a beautiful doré bronze square plinth with an embossed drape-like pattern flowing off either end of the plinth. On either end of the center bowl are two marvelously cast and embossed doré bronze love...
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1870s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Crystal, Bronze

Barbedienne Bronze Centerpiece after Germain Pilon on Red and Black Marble Base
Located in Norwood, NJ
19th Century Signed Doré bronze Belle Époque Barbedienne centerpiece of large scale, in the Renaissance style, on a red and black marble base. Three graces gilt bronze figural sculpt...
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1870s French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Gold Plate, Bronze

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 Vases and Vessels

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Marble

Pair of French Gilt Bronze-Mounted Marble Urns
Located in Cypress, CA
Attractive large pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted marble urns. Each round ormolu rim over flared neck on ovoid form body flanked ormolu swan handles, all resting on marble...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

Chinese Blanc de Chine Porcelain & Ormolu-Mounted Potpouri Vases and Cover, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of Louis XVI antique Chinese blanc de chine porcelain and French ormolu-mounted Potpouri vases and covers, with applied...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of 18th Century Ormolu and Marble Vases
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Beautiful pair of 18th century French ormolu and marble vases.
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases and Vessels

Materials

Marble

Louis Xvi vases and vessels for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI vases and vessels 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 vases and vessels created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI vases and vessels 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 vases and vessels, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Baccarat, and Ferdinand Barbedienne. 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 vases and vessels differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $442 and tops out at $188,000 while the average work can sell for $10,710.

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