French Provincial Furniture
FRENCH PROVINCIAL STYLE
Removed from the fashions of the court, French Provincial style developed in the provinces of the country, such as Provence, Normandy, the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. Dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, French Provincial furniture was not as ostentatious as the designs being produced for the royal palaces, but elegant S-shape cabriole legs and ornate carvings elevated the sturdy chairs, sofas, tables and bedroom furniture intended for everyday use.
Although it varies by region, antique French Provincial furniture is unified by solid construction and an artisanal attention to design. While this furniture often followed the metropolitan trends — including the Rococo or neoclassical aesthetics of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI — since it was produced in the French countryside it was more subdued with nods to its rustic settings.
Local materials like fruitwoods, oak, beech and walnut were used to construct large French Provincial armoires for storage and comfortable armchairs with rush-woven seats. Wrought-iron elements and carvings like floral details and scallop patterns were common as ornamentation. Furniture was frequently painted white or other muted colors that coordinated with gilt and would acquire a patina of age over time. Other wood was just stained with vibrant fabric such as toile de Jouy, which sometimes depicted pastoral scenes, adding color as upholstery.
The style arrived in the United States after World War I, with soldiers returning home wanting furniture like what they had seen in the rural homes and castles of France. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, designer John Widdicomb split from his family business, the Widdicomb Furniture Company, and had been focusing on Louis XV– and French Provincial–style furnishings since the early 1900s. Other American manufacturers such as Baker, Drexel, Henredon and Thomasville also responded to demand. Today antique French Provincial pieces and reproductions continue to be popular.
Find a collection of antique French Provincial dining tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
Style: French Provincial
Color: Gold
1930s French Small Bagues Crystal Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Circa 1930's French small Bagues chandelier with crystal flowers and amethyst colored crystals, 4 lights
Category
1930s French Vintage French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
1930's Opaline Glass Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of circa 1930’s Opaline glass table lamps with gilt design
Category
1930s French Vintage French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Mirrors Sconces
Located in New York, NY
A pair of late 19th century French gilt bronze sconces with beveled mirror backplate and two lights
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair French Provincial 19th Century Tole Bronze Two Light Floral Wall Sconces
Located in New York, NY
Fine quality, charming pair of 19th century French Provincial Tole and Bronze floral motif two light wall sconces. Polychrome decorated tole in subtle, muted tones of forest green, o...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Tôle
19th Century French Sevres Porcelain with Bronze Ormolu Mounted as a Table Lamp
Located in Charlotte, NC
An antique French Sevres style porcelain urn mounted as a table lamp, unbranded. Sevres porcelain urn of dark blue & gold with hand painted scene of lovers kissing & cherubs on front...
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Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
French Bronze & Iron Wall Sconce with Fleur De Lis
Located in Malibu, CA
Classic French bronze & iron sconce with fleur de Lis.
Newly wired.
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Iron, Bronze
French-Style Painted And Parcel-Gilt Iron Lantern
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gorgeous, vintage painted and parcel- gilt lantern in the French provincial style.
The lantern feature an iron frame in a dark rusty brown finish with gilded decorations includin...
Category
1990s American French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Iron, Gold Leaf
Floral Rich Blue Limoges Ceramic Coiffe Saucer, Limoges, France, 1800s
By Limoges
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful Coiffe Limoges floral plate. Doesn't this pretty saucer remind you of Gucci? A rich blue decorates the scalloped edges at the outer rim, and ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Gold
Louis Lourioux Porcelain Shell Bird Motif Le Faune Trinket Dish, France
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A petite porcelain trinket dish or catchall by Louis Lourioux. Crafted from fine porcelain, this small dish is created in the shape of a clamshe...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Gold
French Bronze Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Bradenton, FL
Beautiful French bronze Bouillote lamp with black matte and gold trim shade. Lamp features two light sockets and two candles brackets. Very good condition appropriate to age.
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bronze & Brass French Provincial Fireplace Screen w/ Surround Panels
Located in Charlotte, NC
An antique French Provincial style fireplace screen with surround panels, unbranded. Bronze with decorative brass accents. Features dual doors for access to fireplace, decorative ven...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Pair Pricket Candle Sticks Altar Church Ecclesiastical French 19th Century
Located in Mimizan, FR
Pair of French Pricket Sticks 19th Century
we also have another pair of these that match listed separately
Altar Sticks
Gilded Metal
From a French Chateau Chapel
Good antique used co...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
French Mahogany Brass Two-Tier Side or Coffee Table
Located in Miami, FL
A charming French 19th century Louis XVI style side table in mahogany. The table is raised on cabriole legs. The table has two tiers decorated with pierced brass galleries. All below...
Category
Early 20th Century European French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
19th-c. French Bronze Woman Leaning on Column
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century French bronze woman leaning on column with embossed foundry stamp.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
French Gilded Lantern Light - 3-Arms w/ Tassels & Ribbons
Located in New York, NY
Bronze gold gilded, three light, 20th C., lantern light with canopy. It is adorned with a series of chain swags with molded tassels and ribbons decorating the cylinder glass. The bot...
Category
20th Century French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Superb 19th Century Sculptural Faience Lamp of French Soldier
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Wonderful and unusual antique French faience table lamp having sculptural blue and white bust of a soldier with jaunty turban on his head. Base is bronzed b...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Atelier Petitot French Bronze & Brass 6 Light Round Chandelier Neoclassical
Located in Miami, FL
Atelier Petitot style French neoclassical round 6 light chandelier with black & gold clip on Paper Shades, made in the 1950.
Features 5 cast Bronze scalloped Arms holding a cut glas...
Category
1950s French Vintage French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze
Pair of French Provincial Harvest Motif Bronze Candelabras
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Provincial bronze harvest motif 5-armcandelabras with decorative grape vines and leaves, wheat sheafs, and lilies intertwined above a ...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair of Antique Bronze Guillaume Coustou Marly Horses Statues as Seen the Louvre
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of Guillaume Coustou bronze “Marly Horse” statues as seen in The Louvre Paris
These are a very good looking and nicely executed pair, they are in solid bronze and have been wonderfully sculpted
The original Marly Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou, showing two rearing horses with their groom. They were commissioned by Louis XV of France for the trough at the entrance to the grounds of his château de Marly.
Coustou's last works, they were intended to replace two other sculpted groups, Mercury on Pegasus and Pegasus, Renown of Horses, both by Antoine Coysevox...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Tiger by James Andrey c1920
By Andrey
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
A cast Bronze Tiger by James Andrey produced in the 1920’s in France, this Tiger has been fitted to a rough cut marble base with ANDREY inscribed
Age: 1920
Style: Bronze Sculpt...
Category
1920s French Vintage French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian Crystal, Giltwood and Iron Chandelier
Located in Houston, TX
Italian crystal, giltwood and iron chandelier circa 1900-1929. Turned giltwood and iron chandelier decorated in cut glass bobeches, presse...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Brass, Gold Leaf
Antique 19th Century French AD Mougin Gilt Bronze Mantel Garniture Clock & Urns
By A.D. Mougin
Located in Dayton, OH
"Antique AD Mougin French figural garniture clock and mantel urns. Made of marble and bronze with gilt accents and neoclassical styling featuring a figural b...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Deco Whippet Sculpture in Bronze by Bayre
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
Art Deco Whippet sculpture in bronze by Bayre
Antoine-Louis Bayre ( 1795- 1875 ) The Whippet, this bronze was cast around 1880 and signed Bayre fitte...
Category
1880s French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair Bronze & Marble Candelabras
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of antique French gilt bronze & marble figural nude candelabras. A neoclassical nude maiden atop a white marble column base.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 'Les Deux Rats Et L'Oeuf' Marble Mounted Bronze Inkwell
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An antique French novelty bronze inkwell modeled as 'Les deux rats et l'oeuf' mounted on a red veined marble base and dating from the latter 19th century. The inkwell is based on the...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Shabby Chic and Gold Leaf Distressed Antique Writing Table Desk Large Console
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Antique distressed finish writing hall centre table or small dining table with figural shape top.
It features base with Fine carved finial a...
Category
20th Century American French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
Custom Lamp from 19th Century Wine Bottle
Located in Houston, TX
Custom lamp from 19th century wine bottle. Large clear hand-blown glass wine bottle with original hand-painted and gilded decoration. Newly wired for use within the USA using UL listed parts. Includes complimentary linen drum shade...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
French Empire Style Bronze Swan Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
French Empire style (20th Century) bronze dore 2 swan arm round base bouillotte table lamp with oval green tole shade.
Category
20th Century Unknown French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Life Size French Patinated Bronze Male & Female Parrots on Branches
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Life size pair of French patinated bronze male & female parrots on branches, circa 1950, standing 51” tall these fabulous cast parrots are as cha...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Monumental French Gold Wood Artwork or Mirror Frame Picture Floor Wall
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage ornate gold frame. Made of wood with acanthus design and red undertone.
Measures: Opening 36" x 72".
Category
Late 20th Century French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Bronze Blue Opaline Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage bronze, blue opaline floral chandelier, amazing color and pictures with floral design around the candle holders, and on the center. Bronze all on the edges making it look bea...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Large French Gilt Bronze Church Two-Arm Candle Sconces, Mid-19th Century
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
A pair of french church two-arm wall candle sconces, gilt bronze decorated with leaf motifs, beautiful aged patina, France, mid-19th century. For indoor and outdoor use.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Gilt Bronze Baby Sculpture Paperweight, France, 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Baby gilt bronze paperweight sculpture.
In an excellent quality and condition.
France, 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Spanish Bronze and Brass Gilted Side Table with Red Marble Top
Located in Miami, FL
19th Spanish bronze and brass gilded side table with red marble top
Beautiful bronze reliefs in the base of the top and ornamental motifs in the three pedestal leg
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century Pair of Bronze Representing Young Woman by Jean Baffier
Located in Marseille, FR
Bronze and tin dated 1911 by Jean Baffier recognized for his work on the peasantry Berrichonne. This pair of empty pockets (differences in the headdresses...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Tin
Pair of French Style Bronze Wall Sconces Grape Cluster Details
Located in Toledo, OH
Pair of French style bronze two socket wall sconces. Ribbon bow top detail. Body has grape cluster with leaf designs. Acanthus leaf candleholder. Gold with variegated red patina. On ...
Category
20th Century Unknown French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Provincial Three-Piece Clock Set
Located in London, GB
A fine quality three-piece French gilt red marble and bronze clock set comprising
two three branch candelabra and a mantel clock.
The clock has a whi...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Brass 12-Arm Chandelier
Located in Antwerp, BE
A French style 12-arm brass chandelier with cast leaves and floral decoration.
Diameter: 58 cm.
Height fixture: 65 cm
Total height with chain: 80 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Brass
Pair of French Bronze Cherub Planters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental size pair of French Bronze Planters with Cherubs. They are detailed with garlands of flowers, acanthus leaves, and two exquisite cherubs gazing at each other. The patina o...
Category
19th Century French Antique French Provincial Furniture
Materials
Bronze
French Provincial furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique French Provincial furniture 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 furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include case pieces and storage cabinets, tables, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used French Provincial furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Baker Furniture Company, Maison Baguès, Sarreguemines, and Henredon. 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 furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $18 and tops out at $125,000 while the average work can sell for $1,997.
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