Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Vienna porcelain - 4 cups and saucers, 1781
Located in DELFT, NL
Set of 4 cups and saucers with decoration of gilt flower sprays and blue border by the Kaiserlich priviglierte Porzellan Fabrique in Vienna. It was founded in 1718 and continued unti...
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Late 18th Century Austrian Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Nast In Paris, Series Of 12 Barbeaux Plates, 18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Nast à Paris, series of 12 plates in white porcelain, with scalloped edges, barbel model, with gold highlights
Slight wear of time, 4 plates with a "hair...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
André Leboeuf, Manufacture à la Reine' - Cup and saucer 'Litron', late 18th
Located in DELFT, NL
Very beautiful cup and saucer of the model Litron, by Manufacture à la Reine rue Thiroux.
ca 1785-1790.
Refined and elaborate decoration of flower festoons and gilt ornament.
Faint c...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen - 4 cups and saucers 'Strohblumenmuster', Marcolini period 1774-1814
Located in DELFT, NL
Set of 4 cups and saucers in the beloved strawflower or Strohblumenmuster.
Reliefdecor "Gebrochener Stab" hemispherical cup with standring, handle and fine cobalt blue underglaze pa...
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Late 18th Century German Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
An 18th C. French Ormolu Mounted Sevres Porcelain Centerpiece w/ Dragon Handles
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite 18th Century French Ormolu Mounted Sevres Porcelain Centerpiece painted and decorated by Jean-Jacques Pierre, adorned with enchanting early 1800's ormolu dragon handle...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Sèvres Double Handled Cup, Cover and Stand, 1791
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Sèvres Double Handled Cup, Cover and Stand, 1791
Sèvres is the most prominent name in French Porcelain, but it was not the first. Porcelain had been manufactured in France to suppl...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres Biscuit Porcelain Figure 'De La Fontaine' from 'Les Grands Hommes, 1784
Located in Essex, MA
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) BISCUIT FIGURE OF 'JEAN DE LA FONTAINE' FROM THE SERIES OF 'LES GRANDS HOMMES'
circa 1784, INCISED L R 7 TO BASE AT FRONT
Modelled by Pierre Julien (1731-180...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup in Porcelain of Sevres, from the 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Coffee cup in porcelain of sevres, from the 18th century
Beautiful 18th century coffee cup in Sèvres porcelain.
Dimensions: H:6.5cm, D: 11cm.
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Silver Wine Taster Honoring Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very unique and ornate antique silver wine taster was made in France in circa 1780 and is hallmarked, however the maker cannot be ident...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Mixed Clay Ewer with Classic Decoration and Swan Handle Grammont Factory Orleans
By Grammont Ainé
Located in ARGENTEUIL, FR
Rarely ewer in mixed clay from the Orleans factory of Grammont Ainé(1764-1832)
End of the 18th century, around 1790
Very beautiful & rare zoomorphic ewer in earthenware mixed with ...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Marble Mortar from 18th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
Marble Mortar. French. 18th Century.
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble
18th Century, French or Italian, Faience Brasero Stove
Located in Doylestown, PA
A very nice 18th century faience brasero or portable parlor stove with grotesque mask decoration, blue splash glaze and retaining its original faience lid...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Faience
18th Century Repousse Decorated Copper Chaudron from France
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautiful example of a period Louis XVI chaudron, or cauldron, the copper has been decorated with a metalworking technique known as repousse, where low relief motifs are hammered from the reverse side. Many motifs from Louis XVI were inspired by ancient civilizations (Egypt, Rome, Greece, etc.), such as the mascarons and cartouches seen on the sides of this chaudron.
There are two distinct mythological scenes on opposite sides, set in between a pair of twisted loop handles emanating from the mouth of a heavily bearded mascaron with a tied bow in his hair. One image depicts Pegasus rearing up as a man with a sword...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Copper
Antique 18th C Chantilly French Porcelain Bowl in a Clobbered Blue Sprig Pattern
By Chantilly
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Chantilly French porcelain low bowl.
Decorated in an underglaze blue sprig pattern with additional cold painted iron-red leaves and ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic bowl, ivory colored with crackle glaze and masqueron application
Located in Hamburg, DE
Fine ceramic bowl with carquele glaze. The bowl has an application of a mascaron on each side. The bowl can be used in different ways, as a serving bowl, fruit bowl or as a jardiner. There are many opportunities.
A mascaron (French: grimacing face) or grimacing head (grimace) is a semi-plastic decoration on indoor and outdoor buildings...
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Late 18th Century Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Large Blue and White Porcelain Soup Tureen French 18th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
Decorated with an elegant design of delicate blue cornflower sprigs, this soup tureen was made by Arras Porcelain in Arras, France, in the late 18th century.
The cornflower sprigs, handles, and border edging are decorated with beautiful deep twilight blue enamel.
The makers of Arras Porcelain specialized in porcelain painted in this entrancing blue called "Bleu d'Arras."
The color of the porcelain body is creamy white.
The combination of the creamy white ground and the blue decoration is splendid.
Natural forms like the tree branch handle and the blue cornflower decorations were the height of French fashion in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Made at the Arras porcelain factory of the Delemers family circa 1780, the tureen and its stand are marked in underglaze blue.
Dimensions:16" wide x 13" deep x 9.5" tall
Condition: Excellent, with some hard-to-see rubbing to the clear glaze on the stand
Price: $2,600
The underside of the tureen is marked with the letters "AR" for the Delemers family Arras factory.
The underside of the stand is marked "Dele AR" for the Delemers family Arras factory.
On 1stdibs, we also have a matching round tureen Item Reference LU866530033982
Background of Arras Porcelain:
The Arras Porcelain factory was started in the 1770s by the family Delemers.
They were a family of four sisters...
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Late 18th Century Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Marble Mortar from 18th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
Marble Mortar. French. 18th Century.
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble
Pair 18th C. Chinese Imari Porcelain & French Ormolu Mounted Covered Cachepots
Located in New York, NY
A Magnificent and Rare Pair of 18th Century Chinese Imari Porcelain and Louis XVI Period French Ormolu Mounted Covered Cachepots. Chinese imari porce...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Marble Mortar from 18th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
Marble mortar. French. 18th Century.
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Porcelain Footed Butter Tubs
Located in Essex, MA
Oval with covers and attached under tray painted overall with floral sprays and gilded details. From a Bellevue Ave Newport RI estate.
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Set 10 18th C. French Sevres Dark Blue Ground, Impasto Gilded Bird Décor Plates
Located in New York, NY
A Magnificent Set of Ten 18th Century French Sevres Dark Blue Ground, Impasto Gilded Decoration, with Variable Center Bird Decorations. The outer rim is decorated in a notched gold b...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Sèvres French Porcelain Hand Painted Teacup and Saucer with Bird Scenes, 1791
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and rare Sèvres Porcelain cabinet teacup and saucer each hand painted with birds within a landscape in coloured enamels and set...
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1790s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 4 French Strasbourg Faience Chargers with Flower Decor
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Two large French Faience dishes and two smaller from the city of Strasbourg in hand painted floral decoration. They are approximately from around...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Faience
18th C. Meissen Porcelain Lattice Filigree Reticulated Basket w/ Vine Handles
Located in New York, NY
An incredible 18th century Meissen Porcelain lattice filigree reticulated basket with vine handles and encrusted flowers. This piece is very rare, especially in this condition with h...
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18th Century German Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Jacquot Pot in Polychrome Earthenware Big Fire, French Work, Mid-18th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This Jacquot pot is made of polychromed earthenware big fire. This is a French work from the city of Lille. Mid-18th century.
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic, Faience
Italian 18th Century Louis XVI Period Giltwood Centerpiece
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome Italian 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood centerpiece. The elongated octagonal shaped surtout de table is raised by eight most decorative foliate feet below a fo...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
18th Century Nevers French Revolution Tin-Glazed Faïence Dish, Bastille Tower
By Nevers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French revolution tin-glazed earthenware dish, made in Nevers, circa 1790. Showing a yellow battlement often thought to be the Bastille, the image of the tower represents the defen...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
Pair of French Late 18th Century Paris Porcelain Cachepots with Floral Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of French Louis XVI period Paris porcelain cachepots from the late 18th century, with hand-painted floral décor and gilt accents. Created in France during the short reign of K...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Danish Silver Tea Pot by Bendix Gijsen, Copenhagen, Louis XVI Period, Dated 1799
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
The period Copenhagen made Louis XVI silver pot has an amazing oval shape with ebony handle and finial, topped of with silver tip.
The tea pot is clearly struck hallmarks on the bas...
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Late 18th Century Danish Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
18th Century Nevers French Revolution Tin-Glazed Faïence Dish, La Convention
By Nevers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French Revolution tin-glazed earthenware dish, showing crossed French flags with a Phrygian cap on an épée, the symbol for Liberty. La Convention, meaning The Agreement, is written...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
18th Century Nevers French Revolution Tin-Glazed Faïence Dish, the End of Famine
By Nevers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French Revolution tin-glazed earthenware dish, made in Nevers, circa 1790.
Showing a plump figure along side a basket of flowers beneath de l’arbre de la Liberté. The full body of...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
18th Century, Italian Venice Silver Sugar Bowl
Located in Firenze, IT
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Of circular plain form, the reeded...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Louis XVI Silver Vermeil Beaker
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI silver vermeil beaker. France, late 18th century.
Dimensions: 3.5" diameter x 3.63" height.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Vermeil, Sterling Silver
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Danish Silver Sugar Bowls, Late 18th Century
Located in Copenhagen, K
Pair of Danish silver sugar bowls, late 18th century. Maker Nicolai Brandt (NB), Horsens, 1787-1813.
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18th Century and Earlier Danish Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Paint, Porcelain
18th Century Meissen Porcelain Model of a King Charles Spaniel, J.J. Kändler
Located in New York, NY
An 18th century Louis XVI period Meissen porcelain model of a King Charles spaniel, blue crossed swords mark, after the model by J.J. Kändler. The spotted dog with mouth open to reve...
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1760s German Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Sèvres Porcelain Complete Tea Set, with Painters and Guilders Mark
Located in New York, NY
A marvelous Louis XVI period Sèvres Porcelain complete tea service, with date letter for 1782. Decorated with landscapes on a dark blue ‘beau bleu’ ground with elaborate gilt decoration. Comprising of six cups and saucers, a milk jug, teapot and sugar bowl and cover. With painter’s mark for Edme-François Bouillat (active 1758-1810) and gilder’s mark for Jean-Pierre Boulanger (pere) (active 1754-1784).
France, circa 1782
Sèvres tea services...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
French Neoclassical Silver and Cut-Glass Two-Bottle Oil Cruet, Paris, 1787
Located in Torino, IT
Elegant and exceptional antique French silver and crystal oil and vinegar cruet stand. The center handle in the shape of an obelisk. The cruets stand on a oval base finely engraved, resting on four lions’ paws, Paris, 1787. The Italian, French and "Continental" tradition refers to "cruet stand" as the oil and vinegar container...
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Sèvres Porcelain Louis XVI Lyre Mantel Clock by Kinable, Dial by Dubuisson
Located in Paris, FR
Dieudonné Kinable
Enamel Dial Attributed to Dubuisson (1731-1815)
Exceptional Porcelain Lyre Mantel Clock from the Royal Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Paris, late Louis XVI period, circa 1785-1790
Height 62 cm; width 26 cm; depth 16 cm
The round enamel dial, signed “Kinable”, indicates the hours in Roman numerals, the fifteen-minute intervals in Arabic numerals, the annual calendar and the signs of the Zodiac, by means of four hands, two of which are made of pierced gilt bronze, the two others in blued steel. The magnificent lyre-shaped case is made of “bleu nouveau” Sèvres porcelain and finely chased and gilt bronze. The bezel is made up of a gilt bronze twisted rope; the pendulum is adorned with brilliant-cut paste stones; the body of the lyre is adorned with gilt bronze beading and with laurel leaf and seed motifs, with two rosettes issuing floral and foliate swags. The clock is surmounted by a mask with radiating sunrays. The spreading foot is decorated with beading and twisted rope motifs and a leafy garland. The en-suite decorated oval base is raised upon four flattened ball feet.
The Royal Sèvres Porcelain Factory produced the lyre clock model as of 1785. Four colours were offered: turquoise, green, pink and bleu nouveau. These exceptional clocks were made for the connoisseurs of the time. Louis XVI had a similar clock in his Salon des jeux in Versailles; its dial bore the signature of the clockmaker Courieult (this is almost certainly the example illustrated in P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1999, p. 41). Kinable, however, was the clockmaker who purchased the greatest number of lyre cases from the factory, and he developed the model in the late 18th century. Among the porcelain lyre clocks signed by this brilliant horologer, one example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, Munich, 1986, p. 252, fig. 4.6.26). A second such clock is in the Royal British Collection (see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy & its Timekeepers 1300-1900, 1983, p. 130, fig. 176).
Bibliography:
M. Gay and A. Lemaire, “Les pendules lyre”, in Bulletin de l’Association nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d’Horlogerie ancienne, Winter 1993, n° 68, p. 5-40.
Dieudonné Kinable (active circa 1785-1810)
One of the most important Parisian clockmakers of the late 18th century. His shop was located at n° 131 Palais Royal. He purchased a great number of lyre-type porcelain clock cases...
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1780s French Antique Louis XVI Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Louis Xvi serveware, ceramics, silver and glass for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI serveware, ceramics, silver and glass 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 serveware, ceramics, silver and glass created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI serveware, ceramics, silver and glass 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 serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Meissen Porcelain, and Baccarat. 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 serveware, ceramics, silver and glass differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $195 and tops out at $188,000 while the average work can sell for $6,449.
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