Rococo Wall Decorations
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
Mid 18th Century Large Original Painted Canvas of French Countryside
Located in Round Top, TX
This remarkable large painted canvas is from the mid 18th century, Rococo period. It portrays the rococo idealized image of life in Southern France.
At over 11' wide and just under ...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
18th Century Italian Mecca Hand-Carved Tassels on an Antique Braid
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved mecca tassels strung on an antique braid. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used during feast days. The braiding...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal, Silver Leaf
Late 19th Century French Oil Painting of "Port De Peche A Maree Basse"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Late 19th Century French Oil Painting of "Port De Peche A Maree Basse - By Jean Mazella. Beautiful piece purchased in France. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us ...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Giovanni Antonio Canal 'Canaletto' Etching of Prato Della, Venice, 1697-1768
By Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Lovely etching on paper in back ink by Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto).
Measurements:
22" x 15"
Hand-numbered in pencil at the bottom ri...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$3,480 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Italian Decorated Fragment Canvas
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragments decorated with aragonite and pyrophyllite with a sculpted canvas, strata of oil paint layers, finished with Italian raw umber glaze and pozzolana (dry ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Vintage Italian Scarf with 18th Century Gold-Leaf Wood Motif on Canvas
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Vintage Italian scarf decorated with a distressed 18th century Italian hand-carved, gold-leaf wood motif pressed to canvas and surrounded with an antique coordinating Italian church ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Tangerine Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with tangerine quartz crystal points on a hand painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold powders...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment & Chalcedony Rosettes
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian scroll fragment with chalcedony rosettes on a hand painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold powders used by restorers in Italy. The powd...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Elestial Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian scroll fragment with elestial quartz crystals on a hand-painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold powders ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Pair of Italian Rococo Gilt Wall Shelves
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Rococo (18th Cent) gilt carved wall shelves designed with multiple scrolls and foliage and a center shell.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
$25,000 / set
Charles Edouard Edmond Delort Oil on Canvas "Game for the Cardinal"
By Charles Edouard Edmond Delort
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charles Edouard Edmond Delort (French, 1841-1895) oil on canvas "Game for the Cardinal", depicting a seated cardinal behind an ornate French Louis XV roll-top Bureau du Roi, after the model by Jean-François Oeben currently at Versailles, a young boy delivering a game bird as a gift, all inside an ornately paneled and upholstered wall room with parquet floors and centred with a white bear skin rug...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Copy of a Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait in a classical manner of the Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as cupid; Four of four in a series
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Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Views of the Grand Canal
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Drawings, one representing San Geremia on the Grand Canal, the other La Salute on the Grand Canal. Both drawings are in a style evocative of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) specialist o...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$3,160 Sale Price / item
20% Off
French Provincial Style Framed Oil Painting of a Genre Landscape
Located in Queens, NY
French Provincial-style (mid-20th century) oil on canvas painting depicting a pastoral scene of women and children next to a lake with mountains and a gazebo in the distance in a rec...
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Mid-20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Doge's Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Venetian-style (20th century) painting capturing the 14th century gothic architecture of the famed Doge Palace from the side, while figures move throughout, gondolas are moor...
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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pastel Portret of Louise Eleonore von Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Located in AMSTELVEEN, NL
A finely executed pastel portrait of Louise Eleonore von Hohenlohe-Langenburg ( 1763-1837), a noblewoman whose life and status are beautifully captured in this artwork. Eleonore is p...
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Late 18th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paste
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo Wall Shelves
Located in North Miami, FL
A pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo carved wood and gold gilded wall shelves. These are finely carved from wood and have a delicate curled scrol...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
$12,950 / set
Venetian Canal and Gondolas Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of gondolas in a jade green canal lined with classic architecture under a cloudy blue sky on unframed, rectangular canvas.
Canvas is w...
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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Italian Pair Still Life with Flowers by Michele Antonio Rapos
By Michele Antonio Rapos
Located in IT
18th century, Italian pair still life with flowers and fruit by Michele Antonio Rapos
Measures: Oil on canvas, diameter 71 cm, with frame diameter 80 cm x W 5 cm
The two circular c...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
18th Century French Firescreen-Painted Oil on Cancas, Wood Panel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Originally an 18th century French firescreen with a musical motif painted in oil on canvas fixed to a wooden panel.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Painting Cutout Oil On Canvas Framed With Faux-Bamboo Wood -03
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly ask that you read the entire description, as we strive to provide comprehensive technical and historical details to ensure the authenticity of our items. This frame encloses a canvas cutout from an antique oil painting and is particularly unique and distinctive. It was recently crafted by a Florentine Master cabinetmaker whose workshop is located in the most charming and vibrant district of Florence, San Frediano, renowned for its artisan shops that produce entirely handmade works. The Master used carved and shaped wood to replicate the appearance of bamboo, employing a technique known as "faux bamboo." This process involves using durable woods, such as maple or oak, that are intricately carved and then painted to achieve the desired effect. The "faux bamboo" technique has a history that dates back several centuries and gained significant popularity during the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and America, eras marked by a fascination with exotic and Oriental design influences. This technique was particularly associated with the Chinoiserie style, an artistic movement inspired by Chinese art and aesthetics. At the time, real bamboo furniture...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paper
Arched Bridge over Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a long, arched bridge stretching across a canal filled with boats and gondolas of all sizes, on unframed,...
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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style 20th Century White Domed Church on Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a white classical, domed church, resembling the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, directly on a canal filled with gondolas in transit....
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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Early 19th Century Belgian Genre Painting of a Wedding
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 19th century Northern European Genre Painting of a Wedding, unsigned, late 18th or early 19th century, an oil on canvas finely detailed view of many celebratory figures in an i...
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Early 19th Century Belgian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Italian Painting Depicting Landscape with Watermill and Characters
Located in IT
18th century, Italian painting depicting landscape with watermill and characters
Oil on canvas; Measurements: frame cm L 103.5 x H 127 x P 5; painting L 93 x H 117.5
The painting...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Dress by Louis Vigée – 18th Century Pastel
By Louis Vigée
Located in PARIS, FR
This exquisite portrait of a woman in a striking blue dress is a masterful work by Louis Vigée, painted in pastel on paper, mounted on canvas. Signed by the artist in the lower right...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Other
18th Century Portrait
Located in Allerum, SE
18th century portrait of a boy from the rococo period, Signed A. Eklund, oil on canvas, circa 1770, Sweden.
Good condition with historical ...
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18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
$7,450
18th Century Painted Engraving After François Boucher, Shepherdess
Located in London, GB
French 18th century painted engraving after François Boucher (1703-1770), depicting the scene of a shepherdess.
Painted engraving set in its o...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Large Drawing in the Style of Guardi, Italian School
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Ink
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century French Pastoral Scene, After François Boucher
Located in London, GB
French 18th century painted engraving depicting a pastoral scene with a couple, after François Boucher (1703-1770).
Painted engraving set in it...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
18th Century Portrait in Faience Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Highly unusual faience frame with maker mark holds a finely detailed portrait of a woman of importance for the time. Information is listed on back (see p...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience, Velvet, Paint
Drawing of Children Playing, Circle of Francois Boucher
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Drawing of children playing besides a basin of water. Framed in a Louis XVI giltwood frame. Typical of the style and subjects of Francois Boucher.
Chalk and pencil on paper.
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Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
German KPM Porcelain Plaque of an Interior Bedroom Scene
Located in London, GB
German KPM porcelain plaque of an interior bedroom scene
German, late 19th century
Dimensions: Frame height 38cm, width 44cm, plaque height 26.5cm, width 31cm
This fine porcelai...
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Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
16th Century Italian Santa Lucia in a 18th Century French Frame
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
16th Century Italian Santa Lucia in a 19th Century French Frame
Beautiful Condition. Purchased in France.
Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with any questions.
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16th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Gold Leaf Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with gold leaf shells and gold-plated crystals on a hand painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold leaf powders used by restorers in Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries. They are no longer available. The powders coordinate with the gold leaf shells. The 18th century fragment is originally from Liguria.
The Italian artifact...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Two Antique Kpm Painted Porcelain Plaques in Giltwood Frames
Located in London, GB
This pair of portraits are of oval form and depict the half-length figures of a young boy and girl. The boy has fair, shoulder-length hair and wears a white shirt and green-lined bro...
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19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
$10,358 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Dresden Sitzendorf Porcelain Wall Lights. Germany, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of Rococo wall lights made by the German factory Dresden Sitzendorf. The wall lights are decorated with hand-painted floral ornaments and signed on the back. Circa 1880.
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19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Terkel Kleve Portrait Crayon Engraving of Johannes Ewald
Located in Kastrup, DK
Portrait crayon copper engraving of Johannes Ewald (1743-1781) by Johan Terkel Kleve (1743-1797)
Engraving on paper, approx. 1770.
Measures incl. frame 24 cm.
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Late 18th Century Danish Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Charming Pair of 19th Century Italian Giltwood Brackets, Putti Supporting Shell
Located in Buchanan, MI
Charming pair of 19th century Italian giltwood brackets, putti supporting shell shelf. Great color, patination. Confirm measurements. Excellent condition
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19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
Prophet Zachariah, Late 18th Century Painted on an Ornate Solid Slab of Wood
Located in North Miami, FL
18th Century Russian Orthodox icon of the prophet Zachariah painted on an ornate solid slab of wood with an incorporated gold gilded frame that has been c...
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18th Century Russian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of intaglio engravings - Francesco Zuccarelli / Joseph Wagner - Venez
Located in Vicenza, IT
Elegant pair of engravings on virgin watermarked paper, bearing "AV" mark, executed in intaglio technique. The works depict evocative pastoral scenes inspired by the paintings of Fra...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Four Decorative Porcelain Wall Brackets of Satyr Form
Located in London, GB
These wall brackets have been beautifully modelled and painted by hand. They take the form of satyrs, who were woodland gods in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. They are traditiona...
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Early 20th Century European Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
$3,816 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Two 19th Century Limoges Enamel Portrait Plaques
Located in London, GB
These elegant enamel plaques was painted in Limoges, a town in the south-west of France. While Limoges was highly regarded for its painted enamel wares in the 15th Century, in the following periods there was a decline in production. In the mid-19th Century, however, items like this pair began to be created, reviving the techniques of enamel painting that were perfected in the medieval period.
The plaques depict two women, both with wavy blonde shoulder-length hair, and similar facial features. The women may be sisters, possibly even twins. One woman wears a pale pink dress...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel
$3,052 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18th Century Cherub Head Sketch Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Venetian school, 18th century
Study with the head of a cherub
Measures: Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm - with frame 54.5 x 49.5 cm
The present qualifies as a study or preparatory sketch by virtue of the structural and figural layout; by reason of formal and substantial evidence, it can be traced back to the mature neo-Venetian style, which in the eighteenth century had begun to produce figurations of extreme typological pathetism and formal expressionism. The contemporary painting experience of Tiepolo commanded the Venetian art scene, once the lesson of Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) was overruled.
The delicate putto head offered here, in which a cherub is recognizable due to the happy iconographic solution of the wings placed under the angel's face, is outlined with a vigorous vitalism. A foreshortened point of view illuminates his face in a grazing way, probing his features with strong shadows and with a youthful blush that orange his cheeks. The veristic perfection with which the artist arranges the semblant is of marvelous expressiveness. The eyes are swollen with intensity, and together with the general setting of the head they denounce a conscious reflection on the physiognomy, peculiar within the emerging context of Venetian painting.
The painting in question is affected by the large-scale productions, both monumental and perspective, at the time in vogue in the territory of the Serenissima. Conceived through a vision from below, the portrait reveals from the Venetian Rococo that particular predilection for the open and clear, airy ways, denounced in the first instance by Tiepolo. The conscious detachment from the Cortona-style decorativism and from the repeated layout solutions then in vogue allow us to approach the present to the production of Francesco Fontebasso...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Niccolo Gualtieri, Florentine Conchologist/Artist, Two Framed 1742 Engravings
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Niccolo Gualtieri, Florentine Conchologist/ Artist- Two Framed 1742 Italian Hand Colored Copper Bookplate Engravings- Seashells, From Gualtieri's book "Index Testarum Conchyliorum...Museo Nicolai...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
Circa 1765, Pair of Rococo 'Chippendale' Gilt Mirrors
Located in North Miami, FL
Pair of English 18th century (circa 1765) rococo (Chippendale) gilt mirrors oval shaped framed with elaborate hand-carved frames with c scrolls, acanthus and foliage.
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18th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
$30,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Andrea Locatelli, Italian/Roman Landscape Painting with Figures, 18th Century
Located in CH
A Roman landscape oil on canvas painting with figures by Andrea Locatelli (Roma 1693-1741)
Locatelli was amongst the group of landscape painters in R...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
"The Gallant Pastor" after François Boucher, 19th century
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is a copy of the "Gallant Shepherd" painted by François Boucher for the audience room of Prince Hercule-Mériadec, Duke of Rohan, on the first floor of the Hôtel de Soub...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Pair of Antique French Rococo Style giltwood Brackets Carved with Ho Ho Birds
Located in Montreal, QC
In about the middle of the 18th century there was a period when Exuberance began to eclipse the understated quality so celebrated in English furniture . From France came the fashi...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Limoges Enamel Portrait of Woman and Lap Dog
Located in London, GB
The beautiful enamel plaque was crafted in Limoges, a town in northern France. Limoges has long been associated with the production of high quality enamel wares. While to begin with, in the 12th Century, the town was famous for its applied enamel pieces, religious icons, for example, which were crafted in metal with champlevé enamel ornament, Limoges later, in the 15th century, began to paint onto enamel, creating plaques, plates and ewers, which were both religious and secular in character. These local techniques were revived in the mid-19th century, when items like this enamel portrait painting were produced.
This enamel portrait is a half-length depiction of a young woman. While her body is faced slightly to the side, she turns her head to look out directly at the viewer. The woman wears a fine, light pink gown...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel
$2,725 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Venetian Rococo Mecca Lacquered Painted Wall Brackets
Located in New York, NY
Rare pair of wall brackets, highly stylized lacquered carving.
Italian, 18th century.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Rococo wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo wall decorations 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 wall decorations created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, fabric and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo wall decorations 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 wall decorations, popular names associated with this style include Interi, Aubusson Manufacture, Europa Antiques, and Henri Victor Lesur. 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 wall decorations differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $195 and tops out at $345,000 while the average work can sell for $3,600.