Rococo Religious Items
ROCOCO STYLE
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts in the 18th century that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design. Rococo furniture, while greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, is often called Louis XV style — the movement having reached its best expression during that sybaritic French king’s reign.
The term “rococo” is thought to be a portmanteau of the French words rocaille and coquilles — “rock” and “shells” — organic motifs frequently used in architecture and design of the style.
When it comes to authentic Rococo furniture's characteristics, it is above all sensuous and social. The furniture of earlier eras in Europe had been heavy in every sense; the Rococo period saw the appearance of light-framed upholstered armchairs, side chairs and occasional tables that could easily be moved to form conversational circles.
The signal detail of Rococo furniture design is the gently curved cabriole, or S-shaped chair-, table-, and cabinet-leg. It imitates the bend of a tree limb or a flower stem. In a further reference to nature, furnishings were often asymmetrical and painted white, or in soft, pastel shades. Rococo has become a timeless style, and as the furniture pieces presented on 1stDibs demonstrate, its playful, sculptural forms can provide visual excitement to contemporary, clean-lined spaces.
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Style: Rococo
18th Century Italian Gilded Tabernacle with a Hand-Carved Chalice Fragment
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gilded and hand-carved tabernacle adorned with an 18th century Italian gilt chalice and Sabina Faye Braxton gaufrage fabric. This tabernacle once belonged in a h...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Cross with Kyanite, Calcite Crystals, and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian crucifix with gold-plated kyanite, calcite crystals in matrix, and baroque pearls. The crucifix is originally from a church in Liguria. It is hand-carved and pai...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Plate, Gold Leaf
Immaculate Conception. Wood, glass, silver. Portuguese school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Immaculate Conception. Carved and polychrome wood, glass, silver. Portuguese school, 18th century.
Sculpture made of wood showing a young Mary, with her hands together in front of h...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Important Early 18th Century Italian Carved Monstrance Reliquary Tabernacle
Located in Forney, TX
Important and historic, acquired from the estate of legendary American businessman, the late T. Boone Pickens, we're proud to offer this exceptional carved giltwood reliquary - monstrance from the early 18th century.
Elaborately hand carved in period Rococo - Rocaille taste, with superb scrollwork, openwork, fanciful acanthus leaf and shell, ornate detailing, polychrome painted warm pastel colors, now beautifully distressed, muted tones, with remnants of gold gilded accents.
Pieces such as this were used in early churches for convenient exhibition or public display of some object of piety and other important religious relics...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Giltwood
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Possibly Spanish school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Possibly Spanish school, 18th century.
A table niche made of carved, polychrome, and gilded wood. It features a front door with a key lock and gi...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Other
Set of Two 18th Century Italian Silk Frames with Embroidery and Saints Figures
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of antique embroidered frames, rectangular shape, in ivory colored silk satin with embroidery in cotton and gold lamé of floral elements and love knots. These are devotional monastic Italian...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Paste, Silk
18th Century Pearl and Murano Glass Bead Altar Palmetti and Urn
Located in Hastings, GB
A stunning late 18th century Italian altar palmetti, hand crafted flowers made from tens of thousands of individual murano glass beads and simulated pearls, woven together to form a ...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Murano Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Large Italian Religious Cross
Located in Hastings, GB
This heavy, hand carved wooden cross, with applied gesso and gilding is stunning, Italian and dating to the turn of the 18th/19th centuries.
163cm...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Gesso, Wood
18th Century Italian Wooden Carved Sarcophagus-Shaped Chest with Reliquary
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An Italian Rococo sarcophagus-shaped wooden chest of bombé rectangular form with richly carved gilt decoration on a distressed ebonized ground. The hinged pagoda top lid is skillfull...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Opulent 18th Century Baroque Reliquary of Blood of Saint St. Francis '15th Cent'
Located in North Miami, FL
Opulent 18th century Baroque carved giltwood reliquary (a container for relics) monstrance with curled scroll design. It houses a first-class relic of the blood of the15th Century sa...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Silver Incense Boat 'naviculae', Possibly Portugal, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Naveta. Silver. Possibly Portugal, 18th century.
Base with counterweight. With hallmarks.
Naveta with oval foot decorated with relief elements and moldings, balustrade foot and body with light boat shape, presenting a hinged lid in the front, a widening in the lower area towards the foot and a decoration distributed throughout the exterior base of rockery motifs and plant elements (the same theme is presented on the foot and base) on a background of chopped luster, with an angel's head on two wings in relief towards the peak, accompanied by plant elements (the which protrude from the edge of the lid). Although the shape of the piece follows in general lines the most usual prototypes in these incense containers used in the liturgy, it is necessary to indicate that it was more frequent to find them more similar to a ship. The naveta's belonging to the influence of Rococo is clear both for the lines of the object and for the decoration to which reference has already been made (pebbles, plant elements with movement, volutes with pronounced curves, contrasts between concave and convex lines ... ), as well as it is possible to find some points in common with Portuguese works (presents an auction with an angel head in relief a silver naveta with a spoon by Leandro
Gagliardi made in Rome between 1744 and 1750 that is preserved in the Museum of Sao Roque of Lisbon in Portugal, compare with the silver plated censer that the same master made between 1749 and 1751 for the Chapel of San Juan Bautista of the Church of San Roque in Lisbon). The contrast marks present in the upper part of the naveta (the "capitalized" letters in a rectangular space), although it should also be noted that this work does not follow the most striking typology of navetas related to this center (naveta de 18th century silver from the Church of Alcántara de Maranhao, Brazil; naveta by Sebastiao Bernardes dos Santos, dated 1747 from Sé do Funchal, which is kept in the Museu de Arte Sacra Do Funchal in Madeira Portugal...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Bronze pax. 18th century
Located in Madrid, ES
BRONZE PAX.
The plaque that forms this element, formerly used in mass to give the osculus of peace with decorum, has been decorated with varied reliefs: in the lower part, vegetal sc...
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18th Century Spanish Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Complete bible bound in green leather morocco with silver clasps, 18th century
Located in Gorssel, GE
La Sainte Bible qui contient le Vieux et le Nouveau Testament edited by: Z.CHatelain & Fils, Arkstee & Merkus, Marc Michel Rey. A.D. 1770.
Subtitle: 'Le nouveau Testament, cést à di...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Original Drawing, Circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696-1770 Venice, Italy
By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Original Drawing, Circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696-1770 Venice, Italy
Although we offer this old master drawing as circle of Tiepolo, we are convinced, based on the composi...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Paper
18th Century Wood and Gesso Altar Vase
Located in Hastings, GB
A hand-crafted wood and applied gesso altar vase, late 18th century with gilt and green banding decoration.
Small areas of loss to the gesso and wear to the paint commensurate with ...
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18th Century German Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Giltwood Niche. Rococo, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Hornacina formed by a back decorated with molding and a support for a sculpture decorated with a masque and vegetal motifs and topped by a split pediment with a central motif worked ...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Holy Oils Vase or Container, Pewter, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Santos Oils container. Pewter. Century XVIII.
Container made of pewter that has a foot, a body with curves, two handles and a lid. Its exterior decoration shows a clear influence o...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Pewter
Late 19th Silver-Plated American Hanukkah Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful, silver-plated Hanukkah lamp made in the United States. Typical of late 19th century revivalism in Judaica, the lamp is designed in a combination of styles such as the rococo scrollwork and diamond pattern and the Gothic niches...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver Plate
Votive lamp. Silver in its color. Cadiz, 18th century (1767).
Located in Madrid, ES
Votive lamp. Silver in its color. Cadiz, 18th century (1767).
No hallmarks. Inscribed.
A silver-colored ceiling lamp featuring a deep lower section divided into levels by a series...
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18th Century Spanish Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
18th Century Italian Hand-Carved Polychrome GIlt Holy Water Font
Located in Milano, MI
From Italy, Marche central region, a polychrome carved holy water font mid-18th century, a shaped panel with carved and gilt scrolls and acanthus leaf details. A green edge decoratio...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Poplar
Table Crucifix with Porcelain Corpus of Christ
Located in Antwerp, BE
The porcelain white imparts a transcendental character to the figures and this is highly suitable for religious depictions. Usually produced for royal commissions, these figures coun...
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Pair of Italian Rococo Polychromed Religious Pilasters
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Italian Rococo style (19th Century) polychromed pilasters with life size religious figures (PRICED AS PAIR).
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19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Chrome
1930's French White Glass Bead and Zinc Memorial Crucifixes
Located in Hastings, GB
An incredible pair of 1930's French Memorial religious crucifixes, the body of each crucifix made of wood then covered in thousands of strung, hand ...
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1930s French Vintage Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Zinc
Pair of 19th Century Italian Carved Giltwood Church Reliquary Mirrors on Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in Italy circa 1820, each antique church reliquary sits on a rectangular base, and features hand carved scroll decor including a shell motif a...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Pair of Italian Silver Shabbat Candle Sconces – 800 Silver, Ornate Rococo Design
Located in New York, NY
This stunning pair of antique Jewish Shabbat candle sconces is crafted from 800 silver and marked with Italian hallmarks, suggesting expert European silversmithing. Each sconce featu...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver
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18th Century Spanish Colonial Carved Wood Statue of a Saint
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Wood
H 15.75 in W 15.16 in D 8.67 in
Early 18th Century Italian Salvator Rosa Gilded Frame
Located in Roma, IT
Important “Salvator Rosa” gilded frame late 17th Century
Frame with three rows of carvings
Original gilding
Central Italy
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18th Century Italian Cross with Faden Quartz Crystals on an Optical Calcite Base
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Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
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Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful and intricate free standing crucifix was created in France circa 1920. Coming from a small catholic chapel in France and built of bronze, the cross stands on a cone shaped base ending with small curved acanthus leaf from feet over a scalloped apron. The stem is embellished at the pediment with the INRI sign held with sun rays, and Christ is represented hung on the cross surrounded with shell motifs. The tall religious item...
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Pax, Lady of Soterraña. Slate, silver. Spain, 1798.
Located in Madrid, ES
Peace holder with the Virgen de la Soterraña and a donor. Slate, with silver frame. Segovia, 1798.
Peace holder with a bas-relief image of the Virgin and Child, dressed in a large t...
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1790s Spanish Antique Rococo Religious Items
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Pax with the Child Jesus as Salvator Mundi. Partially gilded silver and a pearl. Madrid, 1781.
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18th Century Italian Ecclesiastical Tabernacle with Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian tabernacle with baroque pearls from Venice. It is hand-painted and carved with with gilded details and a painted marble effect. There is a gold leaf sunburst on ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
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Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Cross with Smoky Quartz Crystals and Druzy Petrified Wood
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian brown and gilded cross adorned with smoky quartz crystals and druzy petrified wood. The smoky quartz crystals are from Madagascar and druzy petrified wood from t...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
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Rock Crystal, Quartz
H 36 in W 16 in D 9 in
18th Century Italian Black and Gold Crucifix Mounted on Bornite and Chalcopyrite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian black crucifix with a gold figure of Christ. It is adorned with baroque pearls and mounted on a piece of bornite with chalcopyrite....
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Religious Items
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Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
H 24 in W 16 in D 4.5 in
18th Century Italian Gilded Crown with Iridescent Titanium Quartz Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century distressed Italian gilded crown adorned with iridescent titanium quartz crystals and gold mecca shells.
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Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
18th Century Red Wood and Gilt Gesso Sacred Heart
Located in Hastings, GB
This beautiful Sacred Heart Sculpture dates to around 1790 and would originally have hung in a German or Austrian Church. The heart is crafted from woo...
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Rococo religious items for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo religious items 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 religious items created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo religious items made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original religious items, popular names associated with this style include and Interi. 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 $395 and tops out at $12,320 while the average work can sell for $2,450.