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Louis XVI Urns

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 French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Blue Turquin Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Blue Turquin marble and ormolu urns. Each urn is raised by a square marble base with a mottled border and an ormolu satin and bur...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Granite and Patinated Bronze Lidded Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most impressive and large scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. granite and patinated bronze lidded urn. The urn is raised by a square granite base below the fine socle pedestal ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Granite, Bronze

pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Breche Violette marble and Ormolu urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and large scale pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Breche Violette marble and Ormolu urns, in the manner of Linke. Each stunning urn is raised by a thick stepped...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French Louis XVI Style Ormolu and White Marble Urns
Located in Queens, 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 Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert Antique marble and ormolu urns, signed Maison Millet. Each urn is raised by a rectangular ormolu base wi...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Vert De Patricia Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Patricia marble and ormolu lidded urns. Each urn is raised by a square marble base with a fine circular twisted desig...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu urn. The urn is raised on a finely chased design scalloped base with pie...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Ormolu

pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Verde Antico Marble and Ormolu urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Verde Antico Marble and Ormolu urns, in the manner of Maison Boudet. Each urn is ra...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of 19th C. Bohemian Crystal Hand-Engraved and Acid Washed Covered Pokals
Located in New York, NY
A pair of 19th century Bohemian crystal hand-engraved and acid washed covered pokals, with hunting scenes. Each crystal pokal is blown, handcut, hand-engraved, and acid washed to cre...
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1860s Czech Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Crystal

Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Sèvres Porcelain & Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres Porcelain and Ormolu lidded urns. The pair of urns are raised on square Ormolu bases supported by topie shaped feet. The e...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Ormolu

pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Onyx and Ormolu urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Onyx and Ormolu urns. Each exceptional lidded urn is raised by a solid square Onyx base over an Ormolu bottom su...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Onyx, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Louis XVI St. Ormolu and Portoro Marble Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and most elegant pair of French 19th Louis XVI st. ormolu and Portoro marble lidded urns. Each urn is raised by a square Portoro marble base with concave corners...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Verde Indio Marble Ewers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Verde Indio marble ewers. Each small scale ewer is raised by a square Verde Indio marble base below a central c...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Porcelain and Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most unique pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. glazed porcelain and ormolu lidded urns. Each urn is raised by an elegant ormolu base with lovely decorative foli...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Ormolu

Fine Large Early 20th C Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Malachite Urn
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine large early 20th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted malachite urn.    
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Urns

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Malachite

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. marble and Ormolu urns. Each uniquely shaped urn is raised by a square marble base with concave corners and a bottom Ormolu ba...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of 19th Century French Louis XVI Marble and Bronze Cassolettes
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of 19th century French Louis XVI marble and bronze Cassolettes represent the epitome of affluence! handcrafted from exquisitely veined marbl...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of 19th Century Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 19th century French marble and gilded ormolu urns, each with classical Rans head mounts, supported by three out-swept supports, terminating in hoof feet a...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Vert Antique Lidded Marble Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert Antique lidded marble urns. Each urn is raised by a square base with concave corner and a decorative bottom ormolu fillet. The fluted socle pedestal is decorated with a tied berried laurel band and rich foliate movements. At the body are finely detailed ormolu rams heads...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Breche Verte d'Egypte and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant and uniquely shaped French 19th-century Louis XVI st. Brèche Verte d'Egypte marble and ormolu urns. Each urn is raised by a square marble base below an ormolu support ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Sèvres Porcelain and Ormolu Lidded Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and very high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lidded urn signed Sèvres. The urn is raised by a circul...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu, Silvered Bronze & Marble Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu, silvered bronze and Rouge Griotte marble lidded urns. Each urn is raised by an elegant square Rouge Griotte marble...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Bronze, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Carrara and Ormolu Ewers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. white carrara marble and ormolu ewers attributed to Henry Dasson. Each ewer is raised by square ormolu bases with fine block feet...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Carrara Marble, Ormolu

Bronze Vase with Harvesting Putti in the Gout of Clodion, 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Covered pot in patinated bronze in the Louis XVI style, in the taste of Clodion. The main body is covered with a mythological decoration of putti connected to each other by branches of vine and bunches coming out of several horns of plenty, themselves held by a central putto enthroned on top of the lid. The latter, the only one wearing wings, has a serious and concentrated attitude. He stands on top of the triton shell...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Bronze

Pair of Cassolettes
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of Cassolettes from the 19th century. Marble and gilded bronze, in the style of Louis XVI
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century French Ormolu Centre Piece in the Louis XVI Style
Located in Dublin, IE
An exceptional quality 19th century Ormolu centre piece in the Louis XVI style. The shallow lobed ogee bowl shaped receiver with lappest cast deep rim below a fluted swept top with l...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Ormolu

Pair of French Louis XVI White Marble and Gilt Bronze
Located in Montreal, QC
Pair of antique French Louis XVI marble and gilt bronze covered urns, each embellished with foliate garlands and berried finial, applied with rams' masks raised on animal leg suppor...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Bronze

French Ormolu Bronze Urns by Maxime Secrétant
Located in New York, NY
Our pair of exceptional ormolu bronze urns are attributed to French designer, Maxime Secretant, circa 1890s. They feature spiral-gadrooned necks fl...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Bronze

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Vert De Patricia Marble And Ormolu Lidded Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Patricia marble and Ormolu lidded urn. The urn is raised by a square Vert de Patricia marble base with and Ormolu trim. The socle...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of Louis XVI North European Neoclassical Ormolu and Marble Potpourris
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous pair of Louis XVI Northern European neoclassical ormolu mounted marble potpourris. The body of each is hand-carved from a very fine quality peach-ish-colored marble. Each side is flanked with exceptionally cast, hand-chassed, and hand-chiseled dore bronze lions head masks. The marble bodies rest on acanthus leaf dore bronze mounts which are attached to a dore bronze waisting socle, further resting on a square plinth. The rounded socle is finished with leaflet designs and a ridged base. The tops are fitted with gorgeous open-work filigree potpourris with dore bronze vine...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Porphyry and Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and high quality pair of French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. Porphyry and fire gilded ormolu lidded urns. The pair are raised by a square ormolu plate below the mottl...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Porphyry, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Rouge Marble and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge marble and ormolu urns. Each urn is raised by a square base with concave corners and a decorative bottom ormolu fillet. The...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble Vases in the Manner of Pierre Gouthière
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Incarnat Turquin marble vases in the manner of Pierre Gouthière. Each vase is mounted with finely cast gilt bronze fema...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble and Ormolu Urns, Signed E. Kahn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sarrancolin marble and ormolu urns, signed E. KAHN. Each urn is raised by a square marble base with a fine bottom ormolu fill...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Onyx and Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A remarkable pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. onyx and ormolu lidded urns. Each urn is raised by a square ormolu base with concave corners and a delicate Coeur de Rai wrap a...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Onyx, Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. White Carrara Marble And Ormolu Lidded Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and uniquely shaped French 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and Ormolu lidded urn. The oblong urn is raised on an oval mottled pedestal base with an Ormo...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

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 Urns

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Agate, Bronze

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Rouge Griotte Marble and Ormolu Lidded Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and very high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and ormolu lidded urn. The urn is raised by a square base with a most decorative recessed plaq...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Tazzas
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fine pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and patinated bronze tazzas. Each tazza is raised by a circular ormolu base with a most elegant fluted design. At the centers are impressive foliate supports with handsome satyr masks at the front and charming frogs to each side. Above are richly chased winged ormolu mermaids holding up a beautiful patinated bronze seashell...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Bronze, Ormolu

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 Urns

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century Napoleon III Zinc Louis XVI Style Urns. Beautiful Patina.
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
19th Century Napoleon III Zinc Louis XVI Style Urns. Beautiful Patina.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Zinc

French, 19th Century, Belle Époque Period Bronze and Ormolu Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning large scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period patinated bronze, silvered bronze and ormolu urn. The urn is raised by a square base below a fine circula...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Bronze, Ormolu

Pair of French Louis XVI Style Mid-19th Century Marble and Ormolu Tazzas
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very elegant pair of French Louis XVI st. mid 19th century Rosso Antico marble and ormolu tazzas. Each tazza is raised by a square mottled marble base with ormolu supports and a fr...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Pink Granite And Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and extremely decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. pink Granite and ormolu lidded urns. The pair are raised on circular ormolu bases below the mottled G...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu and Porphyry Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and very high quality true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Porphyry lidded urns. Each urn is raised by a fine circular base with a finely detailed wra...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Marble, Ormolu

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu and Red Granite Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A superb pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and red granite urns. Each urn is raised by an elegant square base with a fine mottled border and a wrap around palmette des...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Urns

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Granite, Ormolu

Louis Xvi urns for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI urns for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage urns 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 urns made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original urns, popular names associated with this style include Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Ferdinand Barbedienne, Baccarat, and Capodimonte. 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 urns differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $750 and tops out at $188,000 while the average work can sell for $14,150.

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