Beaux Arts furniture included chairs replicating models from the Renaissance and sofas inspired by Louis XIV. These pieces filled high-ceilinged rooms that featured tapestries fit for a medieval castle and were illuminated by crystal chandeliers reminiscent of those in European palaces. Leon Marcotte Company created furnishings for the White House mimicking the style of Louis XVI, while in France, cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle reproduced 18th-century pieces that would influence his later Art Nouveau style.
Students at the École des Beaux-Arts in 19th-century Paris meticulously sketched Roman and Greek art and architecture as part of a curriculum that elevated the classical world. This reverence for history informed the architecture and design being constructed in the French capital and beyond, where columns and pediments were joined with elements referencing the Renaissance and Baroque eras, culminating in grand civic buildings such as the Palais Garnier opera house constructed under Napoleon III.
Beaux Arts style, also known as Classical Eclecticism for its flamboyant mixing of influences, made its way to the United States in the late 19th century through American architects who studied in Paris, like Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim. They designed monumental turn-of-the-century buildings like train stations, libraries, museums and mansions that featured soaring entry halls and grand stairways with nearly every surface embellished, from mosaic floors to stained-glass ceilings. The luxurious interiors of these Beaux Arts buildings, which weren’t crowded with objects as in the Victorian era, matched this spirit of opulence and embraced the past.
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Limoges Set 66-Piece Porcelain Flower Dinnerware Set Bernardaud Model "Bengali"
By L. Bernardaud and Co., Limoges
Located in Antwerp, BE
Large 66 porcelain serve dining ware with floral flower motif designed by Bernardaud Limoges, France. Dinnerware set composed of: 33 dinner plates, 12 soup plates, 12 breakfast or de...
Porcelain
Pair Antique Jacob Petit Style Old Vieux Paris Porcelain Flowers Vases
By Jacob Petit
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of antique French porcelain vases. In the style of Jacob Petit. Each with extensive gilt decoration and painted floral ...
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century French Bisque Figurine of Two Putti in an Amorous Embrace
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful antique 19th century figurine of two putti in an embrace - one putto wrapped in the other's arms with faces at a tenderly close distance. Likely French with a glazed p...
Porcelain
19th Century Wilhelm & Graef Porcelain Oyster Plate Pair
Located in Winter Park, FL
A pair of Wilhelm & Graef porcelain oyster plates with five pale pink wells and a center well for sauce. Wide square rim with delicate gold foliate decoration. Mark to underside:...
Ceramic, Porcelain
Antique Pink Border Paris Hand Painted Porcelain Fox Hunt and Dog Scene Plate
By Darte Frères
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful antique 19th century Paris porcelain plate. With a hand painted scene of a fox hunt in a bucolic landscape including a fleeing fox and 3 hounds in chase. It has a ...
Porcelain
$1,920Sale Price / set|50% Off
Vintage Limoges Porcelain Dinnerware Set - 80 Pieces
By Limoges
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This exquisite vintage dinnerware set, likely crafted in fine Limoges porcelain, features delicate floral patterns and gold accents. Each piece...
Porcelain
19th Century Meissen Birdcage Grouping
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Meissen Birdcage Grouping Germany Circa 1880 This enchanting 19th-century Meissen birdcage grouping, made in Germany circa 1880, is a re...
Porcelain
$281Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 1.19 in Dm 8.67 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Michelangelo green dessert coupe plate is material and earthy, like the great Renaissance Master's ...
Porcelain
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble charger plate has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the blue yellow and green decor...
Porcelain
37-Piece French Victorian Limoges Porcelain Dinner Set
By Limoges
Located in Queens, NY
37 Piece French Victorian Limoges porcelain dinner service with yellow border and floral trim (PRICED AS SET)
Porcelain
Pair Antique 19th Century Japanese Imari Porcelain Plates, circa 1890's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique 19th century Japanese Imari porcelain plates, circa 1890's.
Porcelain
$4,050
H 11.82 in W 19.69 in D 11.82 in
Porcelain Figure Group of Venus and Muses Samson 19th Century, Sevres French
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Lantau, HK
Porcelain figure group of Venus coronation and muses Samson after the style of Sevres, hand painted pastel colors, beautifully detailed artwork 19th century, French Marked Sevres Di...
Porcelain
$219Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 0.79 in Dm 12.21 in
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Apollo Bianco charger leads us into a magic world. Shades of blue lapis lazuli evoke the magic of oriental novellas. A fairytale ...
Porcelain
Set of Two Limoges France Oyster Plate French Vintage Porcelain
By Limoges
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A set of 2 vintage French oyster plates. Each oyster plate features 6 wells for oysters. They are marked at the back. Nice addition to you...
Porcelain
Pair of Jacob Petit Porcelain Flask, circa 1830-1840
By Jacob Petit
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of polychrome porcelain baluster flasks. The bottles are decorated on an azure blue background with rocailles elements in combed gold. A fine decoration of garlands of polychrom...
Porcelain
12-Piece Porcelain Tea Set - Limoges - White and Gold
By Limoges
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful porcelain tea set, made by the French brand Limoges. Classic design, fine white porcelain with gold trims, inlaid with greek motif. - teapot 20 cm tall - milk jug 11 cm...
Porcelain
Antique Paris Porcelain Botanical Set of Plates, Flamen-Fleury
By Old Paris
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Garden on Porcelain: Flamen-Fleury’s Gilded Botanical Plates This elegant set of Paris Porcelain botanical plates is a prime example of the refined dinnerware produced by the...
Porcelain
19th Century French Sèvres Gilt Porcelain Cup & Saucer, Set of 3
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Winter Park, FL
A set of three 19th Century French Sèvres fine gilded porcelain cups and saucers with tall scrolled handles. Hand-painted floral decoration. Sèvres mark to underside with red Château...
Porcelain
Vintage Limoges Perfume Box with Bottles
By Parry Vielle
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely and exceptionally cute and quality vintage Limoges perfume box with bottles. Made in Limoges, France, circa 1970. Marked ...
Pewter
Vintage Limoges Leather Violin Case Box with Violin
By Parry Vielle
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely and exceptionally cute and rare vintage limoges leather violin case box with violin. Made in Limoges, France circa 1970. Marked o...
Porcelain
Vintage Limoges Hot Air Balloon Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely and exceptionally cute vintage limoges hot air balloon trinket box. Made in Limoges, France circa 1920-1930. Marked on base as “Limoges France Paint Main”. ‘Paint Main’ meaning hand painted. Beautiful maroon, gold and violet balloon with a decorated wicker basket base. Ormolu gilt meatal mounts and gold banding. The front clasp is an 18th century male...
Ormolu
Vintage Limoges Egg Ring Box
By Limoges
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely and exceptionally cute vintage Limoges egg ring box. Made in Limoges, France, circa 1920-1930. Marked on base as “Decor M...
Porcelain
Vintage Limoges Domed Casket Ring Box
By Limoges
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely and exceptionally cute vintage Limoges Domed casket ring box. Made in Limoges, France, circa 1920-1930. Marked on base as “Limoges France ... Paint Main ......
Porcelain
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H 17 in W 23 in D 8 in
"Pan Playing His Pipes, " Large, Porcelain Masterpiece by Nymphenburg, 1912
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Modeled after a famous sculpture dating to 1815 by Peter Simon Lamine, located in the Schlosspark Nymphenburg in Munich, Germany, and created by the famous Nymphenburg Porcelain work...
Porcelain
English Wedgwood Jasper Ware Lilac Sacrifice Bowl
Located in Dallas, TX
Wedgwood lilac solid jasper ware sacrifice bowl featuring the bas-relief of sacrifice figures. Perfect size bowl. This bowl measures 7 7/8 diameter x...
Porcelain
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H 13.25 in Dm 10 in
Very Large Yellow Ground Royal Crown Derby Hand-Painted Porcelain Cabinet Vase
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superbly decorated, yellow ground, antique Royal Crown Derby cabinet vase. Finely painted floral sprays (principally to front). Darker ...
Porcelain
12 American, Vienna Style, CAC/Lenox Porcelain Portrait Plates, Tiffany & Co
Located in New York, NY
A complete and original set of 12 American, Transitional Ceramic Art Company/Lenox Porcelain, Vienna Style Burgundy-Ground Portrait Plates, 1904-1905, gilt CAC monogram and wreath, gilt and impressed uppercase marks, retailer's mark for Tiffany & Co., the foot rims impressed 00, all Signed Geyer or B.(RUNO) GEYER. Each finely painted with a bust-length portrait of a beauty, the border richly gilt with a berried laurel wreath 10 1/2 in. diameter. The desire and demand for hand-painted Vienna and Paris porcelain cabinet plates was very high in late 19th century, America. Capitalizing on this trend while pursuing his dream of a Ceramic Art Company, Walter Scott Lenox imported talent from Europe like Vienna trained Bruno Geyer...
Porcelain
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H 13.13 in W 6.5 in D 6.5 in
Pair of Berlin KPM Porcelain Vienna Style Iridescent-Green Ground Portrait Vases
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Berlin porcelain Vienna style iridescent-green ground vases, 'Apfelblüthen' and 'Chrysanthemum'. Late 1800s, blue sceptre and N mark, impressed P, 16 and star cypher. Each ...
Porcelain
19th Century English Porcelain Sweetmeat, Sea Life & Famille Rose
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An English hard-paste porcelain, marine themed Sweetmeat or Pickle stand, attributed to Chamberlain Worcester, early 19th century. The base of this stand is heavily encrusted with accurately modeled seashells, decorated in bright colors and embedded on a green ground of moss seaweed. Four Famille Rose cups...
Porcelain