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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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Louis XVI
Large Pair 19th Century Sevres Style Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of late 19th Century French Sevres style porcelain vases, each with wonderful scrolling gilded ormolu handles with classical female mask mounts. The vases havi...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Porcelain
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 Classical 19th Century Marble Lidded Urns
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of late 19th century French gilded ormolu and marble urns, each with Lion mask, ring drop handles to the sides and raised on a circular bases with foliate an...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Blue Crystal Bowl by Gherardo Degli Albizzi
Located in Florence, Tuscany
This Louis XVI style gilt bronze and cobalt blue crystal oval bowl by Gherardo Degli Albizzi features high quality chiseled bronze. The upper ed...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, 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
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Crystal Bowl by Gherardo Degli Albizzi
Located in Florence, Tuscany
Louis XVI style gilt bronze and crystal bowl features high quality chiseled bronze. The upper edge of the crystal cup has got a bronze rim with geometrical engraving but the highligh...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Crystal, 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
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Porphyry Urns, after Pierre Gouthière
By Pierre Gouthiere
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted porphyry urns, after the Model by Pierre Gouthière.
Each urn is of neoclassical design, each with a c...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze
Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Green Cipollino Marble Vases, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very fine pair of gilt-bronze mounted green cipollino marble vases.
Each vase is of baluster form the marble body encircled by laurel and vine le...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Hand Painted Blue Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Centerpiece in the Louis XVI Style
Located in London, GB
A hand painted and ormolu-mounted
‘Sèvres’ Porcelain urn in the Louis XVI Manner
The characteristic bleu celeste Sèvres-style porcelain body of oblate and bulbous form with gadro...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
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
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
Materials
Limestone
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
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
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.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Limestone
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
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
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
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
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Fine Gilt-Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Garniture Set, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine gilt bronze and Champlevé Enamel Garniture Set comprising a pair of candelabra and a brûle-parfum and cover.
French, circa 1890.
The brûle -parfum or censor with a domed champlevé enamel lid above a gilt bronze pierced guilloche border with ram's head mounts supported by a baluster column flanked by seated putti finely cast with musical instruments on a circular base. The candelabra en suite having a pair of of putti figures supporting candlearms with circular champlevé enamel drip trays and sconces.
Champlevé enamelling, is similar to cloisonné in that the enamel is applied to discrete cells separated by metal. However, in champlevé, cells or troughs are cast into or cut away from the metal base, leaving a raised metal line between the cells which forms the outline of a design. The cells are then filled with molten or powdered glass and fired.
Height of central vase: 25 cm
Width of central vase: 15 cm...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble Vases in the Manner of Pierre Gouthière
By Pierre Gouthiere
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 Vases
Materials
Marble, 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...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble
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 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
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
Materials
Agate, Bronze, Ormolu
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
Materials
Onyx, Marble, Metal, 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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Porphyry, Ormolu
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
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Pair of French 19th Century Carrara Marble and Gilt Bronze Urns
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of urns in the Louis XVI Manner Signed by Eugene Bazart of Paris.
Constructed of Carrara marble and finely cast, planished and gilt bronze; the waisted garland draped ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of 18th Century Ormolu and Marble Vases
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Beautiful pair of 18th century French ormolu and marble vases.
Category
18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Marble
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.
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