Louis XVI Vases
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
21st Century, Hand-Carved Amber Crystal and Golden Bronze Bowl with Rhinoceros
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved amber crystal and golden bronze bowl. This bowl is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand-grounded crystal. The golden bronze rhinoceros on the base was...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Exquisite Louis XVI Style Bronze and Ormolu Vases, Attributed to Moreau
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A pair of exquisite French Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu vases, attributed to Moreau. Each vase is raised by a circular Rouge Griotte marble base with a mottled border. A...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Baccarat Crystal Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal vase. The vase is raised by a richly chased circular base, with charming birds in their nes...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Faience Vase with Top, German, circa 1780 Louis Seize, Decorative White Glaze
Located in Epfach, DE
Special faience vase with lid, German, circa 1780.
The rare vase is white glazed and very nicely shaped.
The lid vase is an very decorative object.
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1780s German Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Faience
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 Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze
20th Century Louis XVI Style Lided Vase
Located in Berlin, DE
Splendid lided vase in the style of Louis XVI.
Bordeau red marble with grey white flecking. Egg-fomed body connected with wide ornamental relief and interrupted circlet. Ornamented ...
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20th Century Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair Baccarat Style Cut Glass Urns
By Baccarat
Located in Norwood, NJ
Pair of gilt bronze mounted Baccarat style ruby red cut to clear glass urns. Bulbous form with diamond and facet cut crystal, mounted on gilt bronze footed base with floral form hand...
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Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Sevres Style Lidded Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A pair of French Sevres style porcelain lidded vases, each in a cobalt blue ground, berry and leaf finials, classical scrolling gilded decoration, inset painted panels depicting youn...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French 19th Century Breccia Marble Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of 19th century French Breccia marble lidded urns, having wonderful figuring, gilded ormolu scrolling ribbon and floral decoration an...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Breccia Marble, Ormolu
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
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Ormolu, 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
Materials
Granite, Bronze
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
Materials
Porcelain
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
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 19th century, Louis XVI style rouge marble, lidded urns each with classical gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foliate and floral swags, ribbons and swans ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Marble, 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
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of English Mintons Coral Ground Floral Motif Moon Flasks with Gilding
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous pair of Louis XVI style 19th century English Mintons Coral ground floral painted moon flasks with 24k hand-painted decoration. Exceptional in q...
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19th Century English Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Hand-Diamond Cut and Champleve Enamel Signed Baccarat Centerpiece/Floral Vase
By Baccarat
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
Materials
Crystal, Enamel
Pair of French Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze and Cut Glass Lamps
Located in London, GB
Pair of French neoclassical style gilt bronze and cut glass lamps
French, 20th century
Dimensions: Height 75cm, width 24cm, depth 20cm
Designed in the neoclassical Louis XVI sty...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble, Bronze and Ormolu Vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and most unusual pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Black Belgian marble, silvered bronze and ormolu vases. The pair are raised by a mottled Black Belgian marble ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Belgian Black Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and large scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat crystal and ormolu vase. The vase is raised by an elegant circular ormolu base a fine bottom wrap around lau...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
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
Materials
Bronze
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
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat crystal and ormolu vases. Each vase is raised by a circular base with a fine mottled wrap around ormo...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
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
Materials
Onyx
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Celadon Crackle Vases with Dolphin Handles
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of Baluster form Louis XVI style Ormolu-mounted Chinese Celadon crackle vases with dolphin handles. The porcelain was made in Chi...
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1830s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, Pair of Louis XVI Style Green Granite Vases
Located in IT
19th century, pair of Louis XVI style green granite vases
Measures: the vases have different sizes. Measures: Height 65 cm x diameter 30 cm; height 70 cm x diameter 30 cm
This el...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble, 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 circu...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Vases
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Marble, Onyx, Metal, Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Covered Vases Attributed to Samson & Cie, France, c.1890
By Samson & Cie
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
Materials
Bronze
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
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Malachite and Gilt Bronze Vases
Located in London, GB
Pair of French Malachite and gilt bronze vases
French, 20th century
Measures: Height 63cm, width 40cm, depth 31cm
Each vase in this pair is ...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Vases
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Malachite, Ormolu
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
Materials
Paint, Porcelain
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
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Porphyry, Ormolu
Pair 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Champleve Enemeled Bronze Porcelain Urn
Located in New York, NY
Pair of antique (late 19th century) French porcelain vases with covers, distinguished by their champleve enamel inlaid bronze mounts, and lovely figurative scenes of courting lovers ...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Enamel
Pr. 19th Century Antique Bohemian White Over Clear Crystal Maiden Portrait Vases
Located in New York, NY
A pair of 19th century Louis XVI style Bohemian white over clear crystal maiden portrait vases with hand-painted gilt décor. Each is beautifully hand-painted with gorgeous maidens lo...
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1870s Czech Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal
Louis XVI Style Large Italian Crystal Amphora With Engraved And Swan Handles
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection ...
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Late 20th Century Italian Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal
Antique Gilt Bronze Mounted Blue-Ground Jacob Petit Handled Urn, ca. 1834
By Jacob Petit
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Discover the timeless elegance of this antique gilt bronze-mounted urn by renowned French maker Jacob Petit, dating back to the mid-19th century. A masterpiece of craftsmanship and d...
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1830s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Paris Porcelain Covered Vases, 19th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of Louis XVI style Paris porcelain covered vases, 19th century.
A pair of Napoleon III period covered vases in the Louis XVI style, 19th century, in Paris porcelain with a Sèvr...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
A French 19th Century Pot-Pourri Covered Vase
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A French 19th Century Pot-Pourri Covered Vase
Large pot-pourri covered and ormolu-mounted ceramic vase
Resting on an ormolu base simulating a perfume burner with posts in claws.
L...
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Ormolu
pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and etched Crystal vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A slender and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and etched Crystal vases. Each stunning vase is raised on a circular Ormolu base with mottled bands below ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Importante Aiguière Argentée, style Louis XVI – XIXe
Located in HÉRIC, FR
Magnifique et très grande aiguière décorative en métal argenté de style Louis XVI. Elle est décorée de feuillages, d’entrelacs et de volutes. De nombreuses feuilles de vignes et grap...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Metal
pair of French 19th century Ormolu and Enameled Vases, signed Barbedienne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. enameled Bronze and Ormolu vases, signed F. Barbedienne circa 1880. Each impressive Champlevé vase is raised ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A Pair of Sèvres-Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Porcelain Vases
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Sèvres-Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Two Handled Vases with Covers, each painted with a continuous scene within a 'jewelled' gilt and bleu celeste border.
The front of each v...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Baccarat Crystal vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and most decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Baccarat Crystal vases. Each stunning vase is tastefully decorated by an Ormolu mount displaying...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Crystal, Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu, Porcelain, and Onyx vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most impressive and monumentally scaled French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu, Porcelain, and Onyx vase. This eye catching vase is raised on a high quality pierced Ormolu socle ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Onyx, Ormolu
Antique French F Barbedienne Silvered Bronze Vase
Located in New York, NY
An antique late 19th-century French silvered bronze porte-fleur, flower vase. Design by Constant Sevin, made by F. Barbedienne Fondeur, Paris. Footed piece with side handles and plat...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Bronze
Rare Pair French Empire Rhyton-Form Cornucopia Biscuit and Gilt Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Early Empire period French Rhyton-Form Cornucopia Biscuit and Gilt Porcelain Vases with Boar’s heads. These vases are modeled in the form of rhyton-style cornucopias, featu...
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1810s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Porcelain
French 18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu Handled Vases, Relief Putto on Marble Base
Located in Firenze, IT
This pair of French Louis XVI ormolu handled vases date back to late 18th century (1700s) These exceptional camapana urn shaped gilt bronze vases were created with the ancient tradit...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Belgian Black Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble And Ormolu Three Piece Garniture Set
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and extremely decorative French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Patricia marble and Ormolu three piece garniture set. The pair of outer vases are raised by a mottled...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Marble, Ormolu
Pair Of Marble And Bronze Cassolettes, 19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Pair of Louis XVI style cassolettes, in green marble with rich gilded bronze ornamentation: rams' heads, flower garlands
Good general condition, regilded bronzes, old restorations a...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Marble, Bronze
Pair of Petite Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Fluorspar Cassolettes
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of petite Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted fluorspar cassolettes.
Each cassolette having an ovoid form fluorspar body surmounted by a gilt-bronze stiff-leaf cast neck, ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu, Crystal and Mother of Pearl Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu, Baccarat crystal and mother of pearl vase. The vase is raised by a most impressive and wonderfull...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of Early 19th C. French Ormolu Covered Vases, Signed Clodion
Located in New York, NY
An Extraordinary Pair of Early 1800's French Ormolu Covered Vases, in the style of CLAUDE MICHEL, Signed Clodion. After the original terracotta vase by Clodion in 1763. These ormolu vases represent an extraordinary confluence of painting and sculpture in 18th century French art...
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1830s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century French porcelain vases with ormolu bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Magnificent and rare pair of vases ormolu bronze and porcelain blue cobalt The quality of these vases was made by one of the great bronzie...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Granite Ewers by Henry Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in Miami, US
An exquisite pair of French Louis XVI-style gilt bronze mounted granite ewers, created by the esteemed French ébéniste Henry Dasson (1825-1896), and stamped "HD" on each piece. Craft...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Granite, Bronze
Pair of Hand-painted French Porcelain Vases/Perfumers from the 1950s
By Limoges
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of hand-painted French porcelain vases / perfume holders, made in the 1950s
Ø 18 cm h 22 cm
A support foot has been restored. Further information on request.
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1950s French Vintage Louis XVI Vases
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Porcelain
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Porcelain and Ormolu Medici Designed Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres porcelain and ormolu Medici designed vase. The vase is raised on a chased ormolu base below a square support and f...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Vase
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Vase. Figural Louis XVI design accents incorporate relief head of rams, draping granites, and leaf motif along the base and lid. V...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Slate, Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Ormolu Mounted Baccarat Crystal Celeste Blue Opaline Vases
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Baccarat Crystal Celeste Blue Opaline Vases. Each vase is of amphora form with a wide upper mouth that extends downwards ...
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1840s French Antique Louis XVI Vases
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Crystal, Ormolu
Louis Xvi vases for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI vases 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 created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI vases 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, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Baccarat, and Gherardo Degli Albizzi. 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 differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $500 and tops out at $121,466 while the average work can sell for $9,475.