Rococo Furniture
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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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Rococo
18th Century Rococo Mirror
Located in Ljungby, SE
A high-quality gilded rococo mirror made in Stockholm, Sweden in the 1760s. The mirror's frame features beveled side glass with floral decoration in pastel shades. The central glass ...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Mercury Glass, Pine
Large 1950s Murano Mirror With Blue and Pink Flowers
Located in London, GB
This absolutely stunning mirror was made in Murano, Italy in the 1950s.
Highly decorative with blue and pale pink handcrafted glass flowers and swirls around the original foxed pla...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Fine Antique French Ormolu Rococo Clock - Cupid
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A very fine and substantial ormolu clock by the clockmaker Vincenti. Stunning Rococo balloon form of sweeping acanthus swags, scrolls and floral flourishes. To the top of a beautiful...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Dutch Marquetry Chest of Drawers or Commode, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Dutch marquetry chest of drawers. Century XVIII.
Requires restoration.
Chest of drawers with four front drawers with key lock and ...
Category
18th Century European Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Other
Antique French Gilt Bronze Mirror
Located in London, GB
A stunning and extremely well made antique French gilt bronze mirror, dating from around the 1900-1920 period.
This is of outstanding quality, it is fairly petite and would be usefu...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Italian Gold Gilded Rococo Console Table with Rosso Verona Marble Top
Located in Casteren, NL
Beautiful Italian Rococo console table with inserted top of rosso verona marble.
This console table has a pierced skirt centered by a rococo foliate ornament with complex volute fl...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Gold
Amazing Table Clock "Charles Baltazar/a Paris" 1760, 18th Century All Restored
By France"
Located in Madrid, ES
Very Important Table Clock
French, circa 1760.
Box in ebonized wood, with appliqués in gilded bronze, decorated with flowers and plant motifs.
Enameled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals marked "CHARLES BALTAZAR...
Category
1760s French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair of Spanish Rococo Mini Sized Giltwood Mirrors
Located in Barcelona, ES
Exquisite Rococo style pair of small scale carved mirrors with a crest on the top and carved naturalistic details at the frames.
These pieces are unusual due to their size, they wear...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Rococo Style Porcelain Mantel Clock by Meissen
Located in London, GB
Large Rococo style porcelain mantel clock by Meissen
German, 19th century
Measures: Height 66cm, width 33cm, depth 25cm
This superb mantel clock is a truly wonderful example of ...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Delft Tobacco Jar with Original Brass Lid: Tonka, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Origin: Delft
Date: Second half of the 18th century
Workshop unknown
A genuine blue and white tobacco jar for the storage of tobacco with an original brass lid to keep the tobacco...
Category
1760s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Faience
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...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Large Antique French Ormolu Rococo Clock Set, Dolphins
By A.D. Mougin
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A stunning and large original antique French ormolu clock set by A. D. Mougin. It is of the most beautiful Rococo style, featuring a dolph...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Palais Royal Horse-Drawn Carriage Trinket Box 19th Century
Located in Munich, DE
A ‘Palais Royal’ miniature horse-drawn carriage trinket box made with mother of pearl, silver-plated horses and gold plated metal. 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Marble, Gold Plate, Silver Plate
Pair of C 19th French Silver Candlesticks
Located in London, GB
A very Fine Pair of C 1890s French Rococo Candlesticks
These Candlesticks have been Polished and Laquered
In Excellent Condition
Category
1890s French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Silver
Italian Gilded Wooden Rococo Floor Lamp, 1950s
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice Italian gilded wood Rococo floor lamp decorated with small mirrors.
1950s One large E27 bulb needed.
Measure: height without shade 135 cm.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Grand White Statuary Marble Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Beervelde, BE
A very state of the art antique fireplace surround in white statuary marble from the Rococo period; the surround is in perfect condition. There is extraordinary waving side panels on...
Category
18th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Statuary Marble
C18th Giltwood & Marble Top Pier Table
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A very smart late 18th Century giltwood console/pier table, with its original rare Breccia marble top with pinched moulded edge. The base elegantly carved with rosettes to the frieze...
Category
1780s Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Marble
Large Sèvres Style, Mounted and Gilt, Painted Porcelain Vase
Located in London, GB
A large Sèvres style, mounted and gilt, painted porcelain vase
French, Early 20th Century
Height 132cm, diameter 37cm
This exquisite piece is a beautiful Sèvres style porcelain ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Italian Hand-Carved Gilded Rococo Mirror
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Ornately hand-carved mirror in gilded wood produced in Florence, Italy during the 1950's.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
19th Century Rococo Giltwood Wall Mirror
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This superb 19th century giltwood wall mirror, with its curvaceous violin shape and exuberant Rococo style decoration, would ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood, Mirror
Ancient Maiolica Tureen Ferretti Manufacture, Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica tureen
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
It measures 9.06 in in height x 13.39 in x 9.84 i...
Category
1770s Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Maiolica
A nineteenth century French ormolu casket, in the medieval style, with a cherub
Located in London, GB
A nineteenth century French ormolu casket, in the medieval style, with a cherub sitting on top of the hinged lid.
The body has 4 hand painted cartouches of flowers at the front.
Th...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Dutch Delft Tobacco Jar with Original Brass Lid: Fisherman Rappe, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Delft
Circa 1740
Workshop: De Vergulde Bloempot (The Gilded Flowerpot)
A rare and very early blue and white tobacco jar for the storage of snuff tobacco with a brass lid.
The jar is...
Category
Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Faience
Turquoise Venetian Mirror Circa 1920
Located in Hastings, GB
A striking Venetian style mirror, circa 1920. Carved wood with applied gesso decoration and polychrome painted with floral motifs in reds, white, yellow and greens over a bright turq...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Furniture
Materials
Gesso, Pine
Rococo Style Ebonized Beech and Walnut-Root Cabinet with a Glass Top, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Brianza, Italy, 1940s.
This piece of furniture, dating back to the 40s, is very particular for its extreme curves that require maximum craftsmanship.
It is made in Brianza,...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Glass, Beech, Walnut
Pair of Mid Century Spanish Brass Ornate Side Tables
Located in London, London
Pair of ornate brass side tables
Spain 1960s/1970s
These exquisite Spanish side tables feature a stunning antique brass finish. Each table showcases a round top with intricate deta...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Rococo Furniture
Materials
Brass
Ancient Meissen Pair of Porcelain Sugar Bowls with Flower Knobs, Circa 1760
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of porcelain sugar bowls
Meissen, circa 1748-1775
Marked with crossed swords and number “92” of the gilder
They measure 5.11 in (13 cm) x 5.11 in ...
Category
1750s German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Rococo Console Clock
Located in Ljungby, SE
A Rococo console clock with the movement crafted by Eric Lindgren Jr. (active 1754–1786, appointed Royal Clockmaker in 1776) in Stockholm. The case featu...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pair Louis XV White Painted Bergeres, circa 1755, stamped Jean-Baptiste Gourdin
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A pair of Louis XV white painted Bergeres en corbeille, circa 1755. Each with padded back and seat with channelled frame and foliate-carved rails and cresting, with padded arms, on c...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Two Dutch Delft Tobacco Jars with Original Lids: Varinas St. Omer, 18th Century
By The 3 Bells
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Delft
1760 – 1790
Workshop: De Drie Klokken (The Three Bells)
A genuine set of two blue and white tobacco jar for the storage of tobacco with an original brass lids.
The jars are in...
Category
1760s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Faience
Rococo Style Parcel-Gilt and Painted Three-Fold Screen
Located in London, GB
Painted to the front and rear with outdoor scenes of nature, with courting couples and winged cherubs, in the typical Rococo style.
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Dutch Delft Tobacco Jar: Martiniek, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Origin: Delft
Date: Second half of the 18th century
Workshop: De Lampetkan
A genuine blue and white tobacco jar for the storage of tobacco.
The brand name, Martiniek, is painted i...
Category
1760s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Faience
Pair of French Rococo Style Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Flower Table Lamps
Located in Barntrup, DE
Pair of French Rococo style gilt bronze and porcelain flower table lamps.
This absolutely adorable pair of French Rococo-style two-light table l...
Category
1950s French Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Dutch Rococo Burl Walnut Bookcase Cabinet w glass doors Approx. 1770
Located in Kastrup, DK
A Dutch Rococo bookcase burl walnut cabinet, circa 1770s, in two parts.
The arched and curved cornice molding above two glazed doors, the lower section with two short drawers above ...
Category
1770s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Walnut, Glass
French Winged Armchair
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A lovely French bergere winged armchair, recently reupholstered in aqua marine damask, very comfortable, and in excellent original condition.
Category
19th Century European Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Beech
Dutch Delft Tobacco Jar: Stokvis, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Origin: Delft
Date: Second half of the 18th century
Workshop: De Porceleyne Bijl (The Porcelain Ax)
A genuine blue and white tobacco jar for the storage of tobacco.
The jar is ins...
Category
1760s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Faience
Large Meissen Porcelain Group, Young Man With A White Horse, By Kaendler, 20th
Located in Vienna, AT
Depiction of a young man dressed in a colourful robe – blue shirt and trousers with a yellow frock coat – with a turban and earrings, a dagger stuck in his red sash, holding a red ca...
Category
1950s German Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Four Louis XV Chairs
Located in SE
Set of four Louis XV chairs from about 1750, made in Netherlands. The back of the chairs are elegantly carved in round shapes. The the legs, board...
Category
1750s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair of Multicolored Floral Rococo Style French Porcelain Vases, Jacob Petit
By Jacob Petit
Located in Madrid, ES
This pair of striking 19th century porcelain vases, though unmarked, were almost certainly produced by Jacob Petit (1797-1868), the French pottery manufacturer well-known for his idi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Gilded Wood Mirror With Putti, Italy, 19th Century
Located in NICE, FR
Gilded Wood Mirror With Putti, Italy, 19th Century
Very decorative and beautiful size putti mirror dating from the 19th century, made in the Italian Rococo style with beautiful gol...
Category
1870s Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Large Murano Chandelier Clear Glass, 1940's
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
This is a very nice example of a classical chandelier from Murano in the Venetian style in clear glass with six arms for lights as well as curled leaves. The sconces surrounding the ...
Category
20th Century Italian Rococo Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Pair of 19th Century Swedish Demilune Tables Rococo style
Located in Kvidinge, SE
A pair of Swedish Rococo style painted wood demi lune console tables with cabriole legs
Made of solid pine in sweden in the 19th century
Painted in a beautiful shade of grey/white w...
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Pine
Gilt Brass Chandelier with Cherubs
Located in Warsaw, PL
The chandelier's core is fashioned from chiseled brass, a material chosen for its durability and malleability, allowing artisans to mold intricate details with precision. This bras...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Brass
Pair of Very Large German Porcelain Figural Centrepieces
Located in London, GB
Pair of very large German porcelain figural centrepieces
German, c. 1880
Height 90cm, width 41cm, depth 34cm
This remarkable pair of c...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Rococo Cabinet of Masterpiece Quality
Located in Ljungby, SE
An extraordinarily high-quality Rococo cabinet crafted to the standard of a master’s piece. Painted in Rococo style, the cabinet has never been veneered. It features double front leg...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Italian Maiolica Cup Ferretti Lodi, circa 1770 - 1780
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica puerperal cup
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
It measures: 4.3 x 6.8 x 5.3 in (11 x 17,5 x 13,5 cm)
Weight: 0.78 lb (358 g)
State of conservation: some closed pass-through fêlures on the cup, barely visible on the outside. Some use chips on the edge of the lid, two of which are more marked.
From about the mid-sixteenth century, the puerperal soup tureen or puerperal cup became one of the most popular wedding gifts in central Italy. As an auspicious symbol, it replaced the birth table (“desco da parto”) which, on the occasion of high-ranking marriages, from the thirteenth century, had been painted by famous artists, especially in Tuscany.
In France this same tureen is called "écuelle de mariée", as it is given to spouses as a sign of fertility.
During the eighteenth century this custom spread even outside Italy to all social levels. Depending on availability and rank, it was made of different materials: precious metals, maiolica, porcelain, glass, pewter, etc.
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, the custom of this symbolic homage gradually disappeared, although famous designers such as Gio Ponti and Giuseppe Gariboldi, even as recently as the 1940s, revisited a model of a small puerperal soup bowl for the Ginori and, also in Italy in 1940, in a national competition for young potters, one of the themes of the test was indeed a modern model of a puerperal cup as an auspicious gift.
This particular cup was also called a "service cup" or "puerperal vase" or "stuffed cup" - the windows were sealed with straw to prevent drafts of air for women in labor.
In the eighteenth century the line of the puerpera cup was simplified, so much so that it took the form of a small tureen with two handles - the typical broth cup...
Category
1770s Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Maiolica
Pair of Antique French Bronze Curtain Tiebacks or Curtain Holders
Located in Barntrup, DE
A pair of French Rococo-style bronze curtain tiebacks or curtain holders, from the early 1900s.
A beautiful pair of Rococo or Louis XV style bronze cu...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Meissen Figurine of a Lady
Located in Basildon, GB
A good 18th Century Meissen Figurine of a Lady, circa 1740, modelled by Peter Reinecke wearing a hat with a ribbon, floral dress and holding a bouquet of flowers and standing on a fl...
Category
1740s German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
George III Giltwood Wall Lights
Located in London, GB
Pair of George III giltwood wall lights, c.1760, of elaborate asymmetric form, the frames composed of scrolled acanthus leaves, with old oil-gilt surface. Suitable for use with candl...
Category
18th Century British Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Elegant Italian Fireplace Mantel
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Lovely elegant 18th century fireplace mantel in Carrara white marble.
This Italian beauty with its beautifully shaped jambs with scroll to top was originally build into the wall.
...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century Chairs
Located in SE
Four chairs made in Sweden in the rococo style about 1830:s. The first secondary color have been removed and what is left, is the second secondary color. Under the secondary color th...
Category
1830s Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Birch
Queen's Armchair made of Carved Walnut Upholstered in Black Leather with Iron-Gi
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This beautiful and decorative Queen's armchair is made of carved walnut upholstered in black leather with iron-gilded border and decoration. This is a French work in Louis XV style. ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Leather, Walnut
19th Century, French Painting with Blind man's bluff by Nicolas Edward Gabe
Located in IT
Nicolas Edward Gabe (Paris, 1814-1865)
Blind man's bluff
Oil on canvas, cm L 72 x W 58 (without frame); with frame cm H 98 x W 84 x D 8
The painting, made in oil on canvas, depicts s...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Canvas
Extra Large Dutch Delft Tobacco Jar with Original Lid: Hollandia, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Delft
1760 – 1790
Workshop unknown
A large blue and white tobacco jar for the storage of tobacco with an original brass lid.
The jar is inscribed Hollandia in a cartouche ornated wi...
Category
1760s Dutch Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Faience
18th Century Rococo Chairs Sweden
Located in SE
A pair of rococo chairs made in Sweden about 1765. The model are provincial and unique. The carvings on the top is typical for the Rococo period ...
Category
1760s Swedish Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Birch
Pair of Large Vintage 80s Rococo Regency Vases By Agostinelli Italy for Harrods
By Porcellane D'arte Agostinelli, Harrods
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
These exquisite vintage porcelain vases from the 1980s, crafted by Agostinelli, Italy and sold by Harrods, epitomize the luxurious Rococo Regency style. The vases are adorned in a st...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Painted and Parcel Gilt Porcelain Vase by Meissen
Located in London, GB
This beautiful vase was created by the world-famous Meissen porcelain factory. Meissen was established in the early 18th century, making it the first producer of hard-paste porcelain...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Juno with Eagle 'Jupiter', Rococo Ca 1765
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and impressive large figure of Juno with an eagle, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1765. This figure formed part of a series of the Four Elements, with...
Category
1760s English Antique Rococo Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Rococo furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo 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, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, mirrors and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Interi, Meissen Porcelain, Johann Joachim Kändler, and Europa Antiques. 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 $425,000 while the average work can sell for $3,793.
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