Louis XVI Furniture
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.
Style: Louis XVI
Color: Beige
Pair of Louis XVI Painted Fauteuil by Claude Sene
Located in Essex, MA
Finely carved arched back and seat carved with ribbon and leaf tip raised on circular tapered stop fluted legs. One chair stamped on base C Sene.
Category
1770s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Other
Pair of Louis XVI Painted Fauteuil by Claude Sene
Located in Essex, MA
Each chair with arched carved back and seat, carved with ribbon and leaf tip decoration, down swept arms all raised on circular tapered stop fluted legs. Signed under seat rail C. Sene. Claude Sene...
Category
1770s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Other
Elegant 19th Century Vintage French Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A delicate Louis XVI style, 19th century vintage fireplace surround in a bicolor Burgundy hard stone/marble. Quite an elegant mantle.
Measures:
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Limestone
19th Century French Carved Louis XVI Bergere in Yellow Velvet Upholstery
Located in Sofia, BG
19th century bergere in yellow velvet and carved frame in Louis XVI style.
France, circa 1880
Perfect condition.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Velvet
19th Century French Boulle Étagère
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century French Boulle inlaid two-tier étagère. Having gilded ormolu mounts, an oval Sevres style porcelain plaque to the...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Brass
19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality classical 19th century French gilded Ormolu mantel clock set, with a flame, arrows and ribbons above a white enamel clock face, an eight day duration chiming cloc...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
The Rochambeau Chandelier by David Duncan, Louis XV Style Chandelier, In Stock
Located in New York, NY
A custom 15 light gilt brass cage form Louis XV style chandelier, the arms of staggered height issuing from frame draped with rock crystal and faceted crystal drops. The center with ...
Category
2010s Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Brass
French Original Created by Nature Color Stone Vintage Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A fine French, Burgundy bicolor hard stone vintage mantle in Louis XVI style of the 19th century. A fine little mantle for a timeless interior with a tw...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Limestone
A Pair of French Louis XVI Style Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Urns
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of French Louis XVI style bronze mounted cut crystal urns
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
19th Century French Boulle Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century French Boulle inlaid mantel clock. Having a gilded ormolu figure of father time to the top, beautiful brass inlaid decoration to the sides and front. T...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Brass
Large Louis XVI Style Gilded Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive gilded ormolu Louis XVI style clock garniture, the clock and candelabra being supported by winged cherubs, scrolling swags and foliage and classical mask...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Fine Quality 19th Century French Gilded Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century French gilded ormolu and Breccia marble mantel clock, having a two handled lidded urn finial, foliate swags hanging down to ribbon decoration above the wh...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Breccia Marble, Ormolu
Majestic Baroque Bed in the antique Style of Louis XVI beech hand carved
Located in Berlin, DE
Majestic Baroque bed in the style of Louis XVI. Solid beechwood, finely carved, colored and gilded. Low foot and high headboard, double braided, curved bac...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Beech
Louis XIV Style Extra Large Brass Lantern, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
19th century Louis XIV style extra large brass lantern. US wired.
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Brass
19th Century Sevres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century French gilded ormolu and Sevres style porcelain mantel clock. Having a blue porcelain urn to the top with ormolu swags, scrolling gilded ormolu folia...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Style French Classic Limestone Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A petite fine and delicate vintage fireplace surround in Louis XVI style of the early 19th century. The Burgundy honey color hard limestone is polished and has a silky feeling when t...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Limestone
Set 8 19th C. Louis XVI Style Carved Gilt wood Dining / Side Chairs Pink Fabric
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Set of eight 19th century French Chairs.
Of the Louis XVI style gilded dining room chairs with beautiful carving all around the oval back. Up...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Upholstery, Giltwood
Antique Victorian French Marble Fireplace Surround
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A rare and very pleasing antique Louis XVI Brocatelle marble fireplace surround, now fully restored and polished- ready for installation.
Category
1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble
Pair of French, Louis XVI Candelabra
Located in Westwood, NJ
A fine pair of Louis XVI bronze and marble figural candelabra with floral arms, opposing figural bronzes on carrara plinth bases each with gilt bronze beading and trim.
Category
18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Three-Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
Screens can add some depth and architectural interest to a room, and this one is exceptionally good looking. This three-panel painted and parcel-gilt screen is surrounded by a beaded...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Classical French Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century French Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and marble mantel clock, depicting a mother and child after harvesting above an eight day duration chiming clock...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 10-Light Chandelier
Located in Westwood, NJ
A fine French transitional iron, beaded and crystal 10-light chandelier.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Fine Quality 19th Century Sevres Style Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century French Sevres style porcelain and gilded ormolu clock garniture. The pair of five branch gilded ormolu candelabra each having Sevres style porcelain urns and pedestals with classical romantic scenes painted on them. The clock having an impressive lidded porcelain urn above with gilded handles either side, scrolling foliate ormolu mounts above the porcelain faced eight day duration clock that chimes...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Bergere Armchair
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very stylish late 18th-early 19th century French Louis XVI style Ivory colored Bergere armchair. Having reeded and fluted, gilded decoration and raised on turned tapering legs.
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Softwood
French Louis XVI Trumeau Mirror with an Oil painting after Fragonard
Located in Dallas, TX
A French striped pine trumeau mirror with an oil painting in the style of Fragonard.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Antique Chinese Kangxi Period Porcelain and Doré Bronze-Mounted Centerpiece
Located in New York, NY
A fine antique Chinese "Powder Blue" porcelain, mounted with very fine antique French transitional Louis XV/ Louis XVI style ormolu mounts. The porcelain Chinese Kangxi period, circa...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Fine Antique French Louis XVI Style Porcelain Fruit Coolers
Located in New York, NY
A pair of fine antique French Louis XVI style Porcelain Fruit Coolers. A matching pair such as these is extremely rare. Gold raised garlands and...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese, Crackle Finish, Celadon Porcelain Vases with Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in New York, NY
A fine pair of Chinese Celadon Crackle finish porcelain vases mounted in beautiful two-toned French gilt bronze mounts in the Louis XVI style, which are finely hand chiseled. Porcela...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Large Vintage Mirror Topped Dining Table in the Manner of Jansen
Located in Hudson, NY
This table in carved gilded and painted wood was made in the 1940s. The style is Louis XVI with Italian overtones but sleek and dramatic. The gilding is oil and water gilding creatin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Louis XVI Onyx Vase
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI onyx vase. Hand-carved antique onyx Louis XVI vase of modernist form, Italy, circa 1780.
Dimensions: 6" dia top x 8" H; 4" dia bottom.
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Onyx
18th Century French Cosy Library Vintage Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is original Louis XVI period antique fireplace mantel (fireplace) has straight lines and a great patina. Perfect to create a cosy room. This fits in a country as well as in a mo...
Category
18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Stone
Set of Four Painted Louis XVI Style Armchairs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Set of four fauteuils, with painted fielded frames, each rounded caned back flanked by bowed arms, on down-swept terminals, crown seat of linen with nailheads, raised on round taperi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Carved Chair with Beige Upholstery
Located in Pasadena, CA
A very sweetly carved French wingback armchair with solid linen-look upholstery. Removable seat cushion and lighter wood trim, circa 19th century.
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Set of 4 Basket Form Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Crystal Wall Sconces
Located in Stamford, CT
Set of 4 basket form Louis XVI style gilt bronze and crystal wall cconces. One may purchase only a pair should only a pair be needed. The finely cast bronze frames each having nicely...
Category
1960s Vintage Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Suite of Six French Louis XVI Fauteuils with a Painted Finish, 18th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
A set of six period French Louis XVI armchairs with a painted finish.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Wood
18th Century Wide French Classic Limestone Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is a honey color antique fireplace surround with the greek key detail in the center of the front in Beaujolais bicolor Burgundy hard limestone.
Perfect for a timeless cosy French interior design. We can provide the Hearth in original antique Burgundy flooring with ancient surfaces...
Category
18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Limestone
Pair of French Early 20th Century Upholstered Stools with Giltwood Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of French upholstered and gilded stools from the early 20th century. This elegant pair of French Louis XVI style stools from circa 1920 features a new muslin upholstery applie...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Muslin, Upholstery, Giltwood
Pair of French Cassolettes Marble and Ormolu Bronze Table Lamps. Circa 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of French cassolettes marble and ormolu bronze table lamps with rams head mounts, floral ribbon swags, hoof feet, and terminatin...
Category
1810s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century Trumeau Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
Stunning early 19th century trumeau mirror embellished with musical instrument cartouche, dates back to 1890. Measures: 32" W X 3" D X 78" H.
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Hand Colored Etching of an Elephant Skeleton
Located in Stamford, CT
A beautifully rendered etching with hand coloring depicting the skeleton of an elephant on a pedestal. A live elephant, foliage and huts in the background. French, 18th century by Georges Le Clerc...
Category
18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Paper
Floor Standing Lamp in Chrome from the Beginning of the 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor standing lamp in chrome from the beginning of the 20th century in the style of Louis XVI.
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Metal
Rare Vienna Porcelain Boudoir Clock
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A beautiful Royal Vienna type porcelain boudoir clock featuring a classical maiden seated on a rock. She is holding a dove and is surrounded by delicate ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Louis XVI Style Harp / Lyre Back Bronze Wall Sconce. Set of Six
Located in Stamford, CT
Group of six Louis XVI style harp back bronze wall sconce. This fine pair reminiscent of the Hollywood Regency era are all solid bronze. Each having a harp back design with crystal r...
Category
Late 20th Century Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Brass
Console Table, Saxony, 1770-1780
Located in Greding, DE
Console table on four fluted conical legs with grey and gilt paint and carved floral ornaments. The white stone top was added later.
Category
1770s German Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Antique French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Crystal 24-Arm Chandelier
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A large superb antique French Louis XVI style baccarat gilt bronze, frosted glass and cut crystal 24-arm triple tier chandelier of great quality embellished with cut crystal bolbeche...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19th Century Fine Petite European Antique French Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is a unusual petite French vintage fireplace mantel in bicolor hard stone in Louis XVI style. The straight lines and small makes it easy ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Limestone
Louis XVI Style Tables, After Weisweiler
By Adam Weisweiler
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality near pair of French gilded ormolu Gueridons, in the Louis XVI style after a design of Adam Weisweiler (French, 1744-1820). Each table having an inset Lapis Lazuli...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Ormolu
A French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted Guéridon Side Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French Belle Époque 19th-20th century Louis XVI style tulipwood parquetry and ormolu-mounted guéridon (round table) with a single drawer, circa: Paris, 1900.
Height: 2...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Original Antique Fireplace Mantel
Located in Beervelde, BE
This is an original antique fireplace surround in Corton hard stone. The corton hard stone comes from a small town in the Burgundy area, Cor...
Category
18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Stone
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood Carved Marquises Armchairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and rare pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style giltwood carved marquises bergere wide-armchairs, each with four fluted scrolled legs, a bowed finely carved top back...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century Louis XVI Carved and Painted Consoles with Marble Top
Located in New Orleans, LA
Handmade in the 18th century, this pair of antiques consoles is topped with a beautiful piece of gray marble with brown undertones and veins of white running through them. The consol...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble
Pair of French Louis XVI Empire Style Onyx and Bronze Lidded Urn Cassolettes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large pair of 20th century urn form lidded cassolettes in onyx and bronze in the French Louis XVI taste (The lids are affixed and not removable). The pair features the most dramatic ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
French Crystal Baccarat Style Grape Cluster Chandelier
By Baccarat
Located in Modena (MO), Modena (Mo)
Housing six lights, star prisms throughout with crystal prisms and rare grape cluster prisms. Blown glass centre. Huge star as finial. Re-wired and ready to hang. Adding 6 inches of ...
Category
1890s French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
French Louis XVI Style Gilded Clock Set, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality, impressive 19th century French gilded ormolu and grey marble clock garniture. Having a large pair of five branch candelabra either side, support by classical mai...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
18th Century Louis XVI Console Table
Located in New Orleans, LA
18th Century Carved and Gilded Demilune Console
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
19th Century Important Canadian Sofa
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This gorgeous sofa was made in Quebec, circa 1860 and done in the French Louis XVl style. The wood frame is handcrafted from tiger maple and it features iconic Canadian motifs such as the beaver...
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19th Century Canadian Antique Louis XVI Furniture
French Louis XVI Style Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very pleasing French gilded ormolu and white marble clock garniture in the Louis XVI style. The clock having a cherub holding a chicken, the white enamel clock face with an eight d...
Category
19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
18th Century Exceptional European Original Antique Fireplace Mantle
Located in Beervelde, BE
Exceptional original Louis XVI period, 18th century, antique fireplace surround in a Yellow Italian marble. Exceptional little jewel. Easy on the eye which will catch everyone's atte...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Furniture
Materials
Marble
Louis Xvi furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI 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 decorative objects, tables, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI furniture 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 furniture, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, François Linke, and Maison Jansen. 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 $3 and tops out at $833,747 while the average work can sell for $6,700.
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