Louis XV Religious Items
LOUIS XV STYLE
The style of 18th-century French furniture was guided by the court. When Louis XV, who reigned from 1715–74, focused royal life on the smaller salons of Versailles rather than its grand chambers, it transformed the aesthetics away from the imposing and angular furniture that characterized the style of Louis XIV. A broader focus on comfort and more delicate forms define antique Louis XV furniture, with nature-inspired carvings, wood inlays, curved cabriole legs, asymmetrical shapes and rounded oval seat backs. The furnishings changed throughout the king’s life, as he ascended to the throne as a child and then grew to establish his own tastes.
Pieces like the bergère, an upholstered armchair with a wide cushion that fit the flowing dresses in fashion at the time, reflected this more informal court. Introduced at the start of Louis XV’s reign, bergère chairs in this style were deeper and broader than other chairs of the period.
Louis XV tapestries and carpets tended to be floral and colorful, and design elements were borrowed from Asia. Dutch-born cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh brought lacquer techniques influenced by Japan and China into his luxuriously made furniture. Along with its fine details, the furniture of the era also featured new innovations including mechanical devices. Jean François Oeben, a royal cabinetmaker, created such intricate pieces as a mechanical table for Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress. It involved a sliding top and a writing surface that extended from its marquetry panels.
During the later years of Louis XV’s reign, there was a shift from the ostentatious rocaille style, part of the exuberantly decorative Rococo movement in Europe for which designers such as Nicolas Pineau and Juste-Aurèle Meissonier are known. The style under Louis XVI would return to boxier forms, but with a neoclassical touch inspired by the ancient world.
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Style: Louis XV
Louis XV Corner, Cube Sans Fond Marquetry, 18th Century
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Louis XV corner, marquetry of different types of wood in bottomless cubes, Saint-Anne gray marble, France, 18th century
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18th Century European Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Marble
19th Century French Louis XV Upholstered Carved Walnut Prayer Kneeler Bench
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for your daily devotions. Crafted in France, circa 1960, the traditional kneeler built of walnut, sits on turned legs over a scal...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Walnut, Fabric
19th Century French Louis XV Carved Mahogany Prayer Bench with Velvet Upholstery
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for your daily devotions. Crafted in France, circa 1960, the traditional mahogany kneeler sits on ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Velvet, Walnut
Early 18th Century Tuscan Prieu-Dieu/Kneeler Walnut and Olive Wooden Listra
Located in Firenze, FI
This kneeler bases its beauty on simplicity and elegance in poplar veneered in walnut and olive.
Typical manufacture of a Tuscan craftsman, it is influenced by the rigid and linear ...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Olive, Walnut
19th Century Limestone Holy Water Font
Located in Zedelgem, BE
19th century Beautiful little holy water font in limestone (Italian church).
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Late 19th Century European Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Limestone
Antique French Carved and Incurved Oak Bas Relief Plaque of St Luke, circa 1720
Located in Dallas, TX
A magnificent display of mastery level woodworking, this antique oval plaque of St Luke was not only carved in bas relief, but it has an incurved shape. The concave plaque has severa...
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1720s French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Metal, Steel
Antique French Louis XV Style Kingwood Marquetry Signed Bibus
By Paul Sormani
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning, rare fine quality French gilt bronze mounted Kingwood marquetry bibus (miniature bibliothèque). In the manner of/possibly by celebrated ébéniste Maison Paul Sormani; the ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Brass, Ormolu, Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Carved Walnut Prayer Bench or Prie-Dieu with Velvet
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in your bedroom for daily devotions. Crafted in France, circa 1870, the traditional kneeler stands on cabr...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Velvet, Walnut
Italian 18th Century Lombard Kneeler Louis XV Faldstood with Three Drawers
Located in Milan, IT
From Italy, Lombardy a rare burl walnut prayer kneeler faldstool, an Italian Louis XV prayer bench with three drawers and ebonized jutting frames, dating back to the early 1700.
Fant...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Walnut, Burl
18th Century Louis XV Painted Silver Leaf Display Case Tabernacolo, circa 1770
Located in Encinitas, CA
An elegantly detailed, late 18th century Louis XV period wooden display case, golden yellow lacquer with silver leaf accents. As a reliquary or tabernacolo, the box may have been used to display or store religious artifacts...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Silver Leaf
Pair of Large 18th Century Italian Carved Wood and Parcel-Gilt Altar Ornaments
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of carved Italian church altar ornaments in gilt mecca silver leaf from the last quarter of the 18th century and in the Luise XVI...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Wood
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18th Century Louis XVI Giltwood Wall Barometer
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A beautifully carved and giltwood 18th century Louis XVI wall barometer having its original mercury tube and mechanism but presently with the mercury missing.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Giltwood
17th/ 18th Century Italian Baroque Marble Holy Water Font or Stoup
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful Baroque marble holy water font or stoup,
Unique and original period piece. Italy, circa 1650-1750. Weathered condition.
Measures: H:10,5cm W:21,5cm D:19-26cm.
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17th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Marble
19th Century French Napoleon III Prie Dieu or Prayer Chair.
Located in Labrit, Landes
Prayer chair or Prie-Dieu of the period Napoleon III, French, 19th century
Exotic wood and velvet with golden braid. Can be recovered to suit your interior.
Good antique condition.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Upholstery, Wood
19th Century French Louis XV Period Carved Walnut Daybed
Located in Miami, FL
Magnificent 18th century French Louis XV period daybed.
The bed needs a reupholstered , we can do it with the color velvet you choose.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Velvet, Walnut
Black Forest Vintage Roe Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Black Forest Vintage Roe Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque
A large vintage roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) trophy on a wooden carved plaque. The trophy was shot in Germany ca. 1960s. Good...
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Mid-20th Century German Louis XV Religious Items
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Wood, Antler
Large Hand Carved Antique Sculpture of Apparition of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary
Located in Lisse, NL
One of a kind, large and marvelous work of religious art.
With thanks to one of our honorable Frater clients we have learned that this unique and marvelously hand carved wall sculpture is a carving depicting the famous apparition of Jesus to the 17th century French Visitation nun, Saint Margaret Mary Alocoque. This probably is the scene in which He asks her to establish devotion to His Sacred Heart. We have never seen a sculpture of this subject matter and for us to have found one of this large size and of such quality more than made our day. Hand carved out of solid oak, both the details and the depth of this antique wall sculpture...
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19th Century European Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Oak
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H 49 in W 31 in D 4.7 in
Bronze Weight, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Weight of the 18th century. Bronze.
Bronze weight, incomplete, with the container glass and two of the smallest, all decorated in cold with incised and...
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18th Century European Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Bronze
Jugendstil WMF Marked and Silvered Holy Water Font Depicting Mary & Child Jesus
Located in Lisse, NL
Antique silvered wall font with original and excellent condition glass vessel.
This rare Jugendstil wall font by German makers WMF is in excellent condition and it even comes with t...
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Early 20th Century German Louis XV Religious Items
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Metal
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H 10.4 in W 5.9 in D 1.9 in
18th Century Spanish Santos
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand carved Santos in original condition. Beautiful old patina.
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16th Century Spanish Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Wood
Black Forest Vintage Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Black Forest Vintage Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque
A large vintage deer (Capreolus capreolus) trophy on a wooden carved plaque. The trophy was shot...
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Mid-20th Century German Louis XV Religious Items
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Wood, Antler
19th Century Carved Wood Santos with Gilt Decoration
Located in Buchanan, MI
19th century carved wood Santos with gilt decoration.
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Gold Leaf
Holy Water Font with Virgin Mary and Jesus Child in wood, Gilded 1980s
By ANRI
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A wood carved holy water font. Attributed to an Italian or german wood carver. Made probably in the 1970s - 1980s. Found at an estate sale in Nuremberg, Germany. A nice addition to y...
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1980s German Vintage Louis XV Religious Items
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Wood
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Liégeois Tabernacle In Finely Carved Oak, 18th Century
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Liégeois Tabernacle In Finely Carved Oak, 18th Century
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18th Century Belgian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Oak
1750 Two Gilded Wood Sicilian Cartagloria Frames from a Private Chapel
Located in Catania, Sicilia
These two gilded wood Sicilian cartagloria dating back to 1750 i original conditions with signs of use and age visible on the photos are remarkable pieces of religious art with histo...
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Mid-18th Century Sicilian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Giltwood
H 14.18 in W 9.06 in D 0.79 in
Early 20th Century Holy Water Font with Corpus Christi Bronze and Onyx
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Early 20th century holy water font with Jesus Christ on the cross and a small holy water bowl at the bottom. Beautifully decorated with bronze gilt ornaments in Louis XV style. The o...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Onyx, Bronze
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H 11.82 in W 6.3 in D 1.97 in
19th Century French Walnut Prayer Chair with Carved Bible on Back Dated 1880
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for daily devotions, or in a living room or office for a beautiful religious accent. Crafted ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Fabric, Walnut
H 34.5 in W 19.5 in D 19 in
Antique French Provincial Louis XV Style Carved Walnut Prie Dieu
Located in New Orleans, LA
An unusual and inspiring antique French Provincial Louis XV style hand carved walnut Prie Dieu, early 20th century. The slant lid top opening to storage for your rosary's with later ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Iron
Mid-19th Century French Oak Prayer Bench with Needlepoint and Carved Cross
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in your bedroom for daily devotions or your living room or office for a beautiful religious accent. Crafte...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Tapestry, Oak
H 34 in W 19.75 in D 18 in
Mid-19th Century French Carved Oak Prayer Bench or Prie-Dieu with Needlepoint
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in your bedroom for daily devotions. Crafted in France, circa 1870, the traditional kneeler stands on scro...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Tapestry, Oak
H 36 in W 20 in D 18 in
19th Century French Bronze Silvered Catholic Monstrance with Cross & Wheat Decor
Located in Dallas, TX
Make an old world statement in your home with this important, antique "ostensoir," (or monstrance); crafted in France, circa 1860, this impressive religious relic rests on paw feet a...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Silver Plate, Bronze
H 17.5 in W 8 in D 4 in
19th Century French Bronze Silvered Catholic Monstrance with Cross & Wheat Decor
Located in Dallas, TX
Make an old world statement in your home with this important, antique "ostensoir," (or monstrance); crafted in France, circa 1860, this impressive religious relic rests on four scrol...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Silver Plate, Bronze
H 16 in W 6 in D 2.75 in
Early 19th Century Italian Louis XV Style Frames Carved Giltwood Frames
Located in Milan, IT
Early 19th century Italian Louis XV style altar giltwood frames, two charming antique carved and giltwood frames, one smaller than the other, altar cards o...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Pine, Glass
H 15.75 in W 17.33 in D 1.58 in
18th Century Pair of Statues of Popes in Polychrome Wood
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful pair of polychrome and gilded wooden pope statues. Restorations and polychromy redone in the 19th century.
France, 18th century.
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Louis XV Religious Items
Materials
Wood
18th Century Venetian Louis XV Walnut Kneeler Faldstool, 1750s
Located in Roma, RM
Kneeler of Venetian origin, walnut, circa 1750, we find ourselves in front of a beautiful example of Venetian cabinet-making, sinuous shapes, attention to the proportions of the obje...
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1750s Italian Antique Louis XV Religious Items
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Walnut
Louis Xv religious items for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XV religious items for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 19th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage religious items created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, seating and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, walnut and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XV religious items made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. 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 religious items differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $863 and tops out at $14,500 while the average work can sell for $3,248.
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