Moorish Furniture
MOORISH STYLE
After the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the eighth century, Islamic Spain became a cultural mix of influences that shaped both private homes and religious spaces. Moorish design was the name given to this style, which evolved through the 15th century with vibrant tile work, horseshoe arches and lavish ornamentation, most visible at sites such as Granada’s Alhambra and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba. Moorish furniture was often similarly ornate, and featured pieces inlaid with wood, ivory and bone.
When European designers began studying Moorish art and architecture in the early 19th century, it led to a Moorish Revival. Appropriating the style’s decorative flourishes and architectural elements, it promoted a romantic view of Islamic design. Travelers could bring home a memento of what they witnessed in the Middle East, a trend that aligned with a fad for themed interiors. Men’s smoking rooms arranged with ottomans, divans and settees and inlaid tables were especially popular, as were cafés where coffee was served amid bead curtains and colorful floor mats. (Handwoven rugs are a centerpiece of Moorish interiors.) Octagonal rooms with domed ceilings were created for wealthy homes, frequently with furnishings like pipe stands, filigree plasterwork and arched doorways. The horseshoe arch is an iconic attribute of Moorish architecture that, in addition to Spain, can be found in Sicily, Morocco and elsewhere.
Several late 19th to early 20th-century movements featured Moorish touches. The American and English Aesthetic Movement, for example, borrowed liberally from global decorating styles, as seen in furniture designed by Lockwood de Forest, a New York-born artist who mixed Eastern and Western forms. The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau also references the elegant use of geometry in Moorish design, with Milanese Art Nouveau furniture designer Carlo Bugatti drawing inspiration from the style. The Arts and Crafts movement, which prized expressive yet simple design, incorporated Moorish influences; hand-painted furniture and tile work created by William De Morgan, a British designer and potter who made furnishings for the likes of Morris & Co., were informed by techniques from Moorish Spain.
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Style: Moorish
Period: Early 20th Century
Moroccan Richly Inlaid Armchair with Carved Back and Scrolling Arms, circa 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Moorish style Moroccan wooden armchair from circa 1900 with bone inlaid décor, carved back, scrolling arms and carved base. This exquisite Moorish-style Moroccan wooden armchair, d...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Bone, Wood
Moorish Mughal Indo Persian Islamic Brass Table Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Indo Persian brass table lamp, finely embossed with Moorish Islamic repousse floral designs, sits on a black ebonized lacquered base.
Elegant ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
19th Century Persian Style Copper Tray Side Table
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Persian style copper tinned silver tray on folding Stand.
Amazing finely hand etched very fine intricate floral work designs on tray, sits on a b...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Metal
Moroccan Painted Coffee Table or Stand
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking antique Moroccan table crafted in indigenous hardwood in an octagon form hand decorated in symbolic floral designs with distinctive war...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Leather Mughal Shoes with Gold Embroidered
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A pair of rare late 19th century hand stitched and hand tooled leather shoes with hand embroidered with gilt metallic threads.
Amazing antique Mughal gold...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Metallic Thread
Middle Eastern Hand-Etched Islamic Brass Vase with Calligraphy Writing
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Brass Middle Eastern Egyptian Islamic bowl finely and heavily hand-etched and hand carved with Arabic calligraphy writing inscriptions.
Islamic hand-etched Moorish style brass vessel.
Engraved and hand-chased Arabic Islamic calligraphy and geometric arabesque and floral designs on polished brass vase.
Fine brass decorative Middle Eastern Islamic art metalwork object.
Measures: Top opening: 4"
Base 3.75"
Widest part diameter 9"
Height 4.25".
Condition. Some dents see pictures.
While this bowl has certainly witnessed the passage of time, it remains in remarkably good condition, with only minor signs of age that add character to its appearance. The patina on the brass enhances its antique allure, making it a truly authentic and captivating collectible.
Arabic Calligraphy: The Arabic writing on the bowl is a work of art in itself. The calligraphy showcases the mastery of the scribe's hand, with flowing curves and intricate details that form an elegant script. The script may include Quranic verses, blessings, or poetic verses, depending on the bowl's origin and purpose. The inscriptions are not only visually striking but also carry profound meaning, making this bowl a beautiful representation of Islamic heritage.
Intricate Patterns: In addition to the Arabic calligraphy, the bowl features intricate geometric patterns and motifs that further enhance its visual appeal. These patterns are a hallmark of Islamic art and reflect the mathematical precision and artistic creativity that defined Islamic craftsmanship.
This antique Islamic brass bowl...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
Antique Islamic Spherical Leaded Red Glass Hanging Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Hanging leaded glass lamp in spherical shape and bronze stem with Islamic poetry in cartouches over red glass. With two standard sockets each with brass on/off pulls. In very good ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Moorish Furniture
Materials
Glass
Large Middle Eastern Arabesque Style Etched Brass Urn
Located in Houston, TX
Large middle Eastern Arabesque style etched brass urn.
Stunning huge middle Eastern Arabesque style hand etched brass urn, vessel or vase. This gorgeous heavy weight Moorish style b...
Category
1920s Vintage Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
Set of Beautiful Litographic Postcards from North Africa by Lehnert & Landrock
Located in Mexico, DF
A beautiful Set of 20 Postcards with original photos of Arab cultures of North Africa created and commercialized by Lehnert & Landrock and signed "Editeurs L&L". This was a photographic studio run by Rudolf Franz Lehnert (Germany 1878-1948) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (Bohemia 1878-1966) active in Tunisia and Egypt in the early 20th century, noted for producing Orientalist images of North African people...
Category
Early 20th Century Tunisian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Paper
$1,920 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Shabby Chic Turkish Gallery Rug
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful worn 20th century gallery size Turkish rug. Faded blues and khaki tones.
Measures: 5'6" x 10'11".
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wool
Anglo Indian Micro Sadeli Mosaic Inlaid Hexagonal Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Anglo Indian Moorish style micro mosaic inlaid jewelry box with lid.
Intricate inlaid Anglo Indian box with floral and geometric Moorish Sadeli design in an octagonal shape form with micro mosaic marquetry, very fine artwork.
Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum.
The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Furniture
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique Moroccan Copper Brass Kettle Warmer Brazier Now Plant Stand
Located in Forney, TX
A rare, unusual, and highly decorative antique Moroccan brass, copper and bronze kettle warming stand - brazier (today it would make for fascinating cand...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Antique Handcrafted Water Pitchers
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique pair of water pitchers or jugs handcrafted with copper, hammered, riveted, and plated with a translucent silver finish, giving them an acquired rustic quality only time and u...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
$3,600 / set
Middle Eastern Syrian Inlay Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite Middle Eastern Syrian inlay jewelry box intricately inlaid with Moorish motif designs which have been painstakingly inlaid micro mosaic marque...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Furniture
Materials
Fruitwood
Pair Early 20th Century Antique Architectural Glazed Terracotta Planters Floral
Located in Topeka, KS
Lovely antique Architectural glazed terracotta planters with floral details, a pair. These pots are most likely made by one of the terracotta tile makers who supplied the gorgeous de...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Moorish Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Monochromatic Neutral Worn Turkish Rug
Located in New York, NY
A mid 20th-century neutral color turkish rug
Size: 3'9” x 7'
Antique Turkish Oushak carpets such as these are desirable today as highly decorative pieces. They are notable for ...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wool
Moroccan Ceramic Blue Bowl Adorned with Silver Filigree from Fez Antique 1920s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Handcrafted Moorish Moroccan blue decorative ceramic Bowl, dish from Fez.
Moroccan ceramic bowl in Bleu de Fez, very nice designs hand painted by artist in Fez.
Geometrical and flora...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Zabihi Collection Straw Color Antique Khotan Rug
Located in New York, NY
Khotan gallery rug with nice all-over geometric palette in a predominant straw color. Outline colors in ivory and brown
Size: 6'10" x 13'5".
Category
Early 20th Century East Turkestani Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wool
Moorish Candlestick in Brass and Hardstones Attributed to Tiffany, USA, 1920s
Located in Milan, IT
Candlestick in brass and hardstones attributed to Tiffany, USA, 1920s.
Category
1920s American Vintage Moorish Furniture
Materials
Stone, Brass
$2,377 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Moroccan Brass and Stained Glass Floor Lamp
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and exotic antique Moroccan floor lamp handcrafted in perforated brass having a bronze like patina and an architectural form with two ...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
Handcrafted Moorish Leather Ethnic Turkish Gold Embroidered Shoes
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Moorish Turkish ethnic leather slippers with intricate gold embroideries pointed toe.
Leather hand sewn and embroidered with colorful thread.
Great pair of exotic ethnic fl...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Leather
Ea Leroy, Cameroonian, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture, Early 20th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Cameroonian: very beautiful bronze sculpture with brown patina signed EA Leroy
Emile Leroy is a traveling artist: in 1923, he joined the workshop of Jean Boucher at the Ecole des ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Moorish Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Crescent of Smoke: A Majestic Ottoman Censer in Brass and Wood, Circa 1900
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
Crescent of Smoke: A Majestic Ottoman Censer in Brass and Wood, Circa 1900”
A vision of golden grandeur, this rare and evocative censer is a poetic relic of the East — an objet d’art...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
Damascene Moorish Decorative Inlay Tea Table With Matching Wall Mirror
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Damascene Moorish Decorative Inlay Tea Table With Matching Wall Mirror
Featuring A Repetitive Khatam Marquetry of Geometric Decorative Patterns 1910's
Mirror
Height 85.5cm
Width 56...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wood
Persian Lacquer Pen Box Hand Painted with Floral and Gilt Design
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Persian hand painted lacquer pen box in rectangular shape.
Decorated with floral designs on gold background, black interior.
Moorish Mughal pen box papier maché with miniature floral painting in the Persian style.
Great Islamic Art collector museum quality piece on this miniature painting on box.
Nice Mughal Indo Persian pen Box...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Paper
Panel / Orientalist Pyrography: Arab Horseriders Hunting with Falcons and Dogs
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Panel / Orientalist Pyrography: Arab Horseriders Hunting with Falcons and Greyhounds, France Circa 1900
This beautiful example of pyrography, enhanced with paint and tints, depicts ...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Leather Purple Velvet Suede Mughal Raj Moorish Shoes Gold Embroidered
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Leather and purple velvet suede Mughal Moorish Turkish Shoes with Gold Embroidered.
A pair of rare late 19th century early 20th hand stitched and...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Metallic Thread
Important ceramic vase mounted as a lamp, By El-Kharraz, Nabeul, Tunisia, 1900's
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Important ceramic vase mounted as a lamp.
Nabeul, Tunisia, early 20th century.
Signed.
By El-Kharraz
The Kharraz family is originally from Andalusia and came to settle in Tunisia du...
Category
Early 20th Century Tunisian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
$1,426 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Moorish Ceramic Vase from Fez Blue and White with Silver filigree
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Fabulous handcrafted antique Moroccan Moorish ceramic vase in Moorish style adorned with fine filigree silver nickel work with handles.
The color of the ceramic is renowned as bleu de Fez.
Blue and white footed ceramic vase...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Moorish Decorative Sadeli Micro Mosaic Inlaid Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Middle Eastern Sadeli micro mosaic inlaid jewelry footed box with lid.
Intricate inlaid box with floral and geometric Moorish design.
Sadeli micro mosaic designs in mosaic marquetry, very fine artwork.
Lined with red velvet and glass, top final and feet are brass.
A highly collectible example in superb condition complete
Circa 1900.
Museum piece like the ones in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum.
Middle Eastern Arabian Micro Mosaic Moorish...
Category
Early 20th Century Lebanese Moorish Furniture
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique Turkish Hand-Knotted Ethnic Rug
By Turkoman
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-knotted antique ethnic rug from Eastern Turkey,
circa 1940. Size: 3ft 6 in x 5ft 8in.
Traditional Turkish carpet with floral abstract design.
Antique oriental accent rug...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wool
Antique Islamic Turkish Ottoman Ceramic Tile
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique 19th century hand painted Islamic Turkish ottoman ceramic tile.
Painting figure of a Shah Suleiman in a palace before a colonnade and curtain.
Arabic script on left top corner, " Shah Suleiman" colors are brown, shape is the Salomon eight pointed star.
Great decorative Moorish Turkish Ottoman Islamic artwork...
Category
1920s Turkish Vintage Moorish Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Orientalist Engraving after Horace Vernet, Empire Period
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Orientalist engraving after Horace Vernet, wood frame, Empire period
Orientalist engraving depicting Rebecca at the Fountain giving a drink to...
Category
Early 20th Century French Moorish Furniture
Materials
Paper
Arabian Middle Eastern Brass Islamic Art Vase Engraved With Arabic Calligraphy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Middle Eastern Islamic brass repousse bowl, finely hand-etched, engraved, hammered and chased with elaborate Moorish designs decorated with medallions of Arabic calligraphy inscripti...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
Moorish Style Monumental Palace Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Middle Eastern Moorish style (19/20th Cent) monumental palace vase with red, white, and black enamel decoration (AS IS).
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Near Eastern Glass Top Inlaid Tables
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of near eastern tables or stands crafted in indigenous hardwoods, once planters now tables featuring elaborate inlaid mother of pearl and ebony in ge...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
$7,100 / set
North African Marble Mosaic Table
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
North African marble Mosaic table
A table with a difference, this table is made in solid wood with primitive carved decoration on the legs, stre...
Category
1920s Vintage Moorish Furniture
Indian Beaten Brass Oval Dish with Swan Handles
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Indian beaten brass oval dish with swan handles
This is a very unusual piece, the oval dish is set on a short base and has truly “Swan Neck handles” one...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
Cold Painted Vienna Bronze Young Boy, Signed Bergmann Foundry, ca. 1900
Located in Petaluma, CA
This highly detailed cast and and cold painted Vienna bronze was made by the premier maker of this genre, Franz Bergmann. Signed with his foundry mark on the base. That style base u...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Moorish Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Cast Brass Moorish Door Handle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful cast brass pull handle with Moorish styling.
Category
Early 20th Century American Moorish Furniture
Materials
Brass
$1,400 / item
Antique Turkish Hand-Knotted Ethnic Rug, 1940
By Turkoman
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Small hand-knotted rug from Eastern Turkey,
Antique oriental accent rug, carpet or mat.
Vintage Turkish rug with rare colors.
This hand-knotte...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wool
Vintage Traditional Pattern Wool Carpet Runner a Superb Looking Piece
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Vintage Traditional Pattern Wool 10ft Carpet Runner
A superb looking piece dating from around 1930 and it has a lovely colour palette of deep red with some dark blue and orange
...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Furniture
Materials
Wool
Moorish furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Moorish 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, lighting, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Moorish furniture made in a specific country, there are Africa, North Africa, and Maghreb pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Berber Tribes of Morocco, antique textiles galleries, Mamluke, and Liberty & Co.. 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 $15 and tops out at $125,000 while the average work can sell for $1,293.
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