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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
Classical Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy, Antique Copy, 51.5x38.5
Classical Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy, Antique Copy, 51.5x38.5

Classical Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy, Antique Copy, 51.5x38.5

Located in Queens, NY

Copy of a portrait painting in a classical style of the Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as a dancer; Three of four in a series

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Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations

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Paint

Young Rospigliosi Boy Portrait, Rococo Style, Late 20th Century
Young Rospigliosi Boy Portrait, Rococo Style, Late 20th Century

Young Rospigliosi Boy Portrait, Rococo Style, Late 20th Century

Located in Queens, NY

Copy of a portrait in a classical style of the young Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as a member of the Swiss Guard; Two of four in a series

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Late 20th Century Swiss Rococo Wall Decorations

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Paint

18th Century Neoclassical Hand Carved Oak Panel
18th Century Neoclassical Hand Carved Oak Panel

18th Century Neoclassical Hand Carved Oak Panel

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

A mid 19th century ceiling rose from Loch Ness Abbey. This deeply carved pine Tudor Rose was salvaged from an Abbey near Loch Ness in Scotland. Carved with meticulous skill and atte...

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Late 19th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Wood, Pine

Doge's Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas, Rococo, 20th Century
Doge's Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas, Rococo, 20th Century

Doge's Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas, Rococo, 20th Century

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

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Canvas

A Pair of 19th Century Hand Carved Gilt Wood Cornucopias
A Pair of 19th Century Hand Carved Gilt Wood Cornucopias

A Pair of 19th Century Hand Carved Gilt Wood Cornucopias

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

A pair of 19th century Hand Carved Gilt Wood Cornucopias. Intricately carved from pine and finished in gold which has aged to a give a greenish hue. Dating to circa 1850 this hande...

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Mid-19th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Wood, Pine

Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting, Rococo Style, 20th Century
Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting, Rococo Style, 20th Century

Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting, Rococo Style, 20th Century

Located in Queens, NY

Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a bustling town on a canal and townspeople in route to board a gondola in the foreground, alongside several gondoliers waiting nearb...

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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations

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Canvas

Mid 20th Century Venetian Oil Painting, Canal Scene, Giltwood Frame
Mid 20th Century Venetian Oil Painting, Canal Scene, Giltwood Frame

Mid 20th Century Venetian Oil Painting, Canal Scene, Giltwood Frame

Located in Queens, NY

Italian Venetian-style (mid 20th Century) oil on canvas seascape painting depicting a long stone bridge over a busy canal filled with boaters with a city in the background under a bl...

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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood, Giltwood

Italian Painting Architectural Capriccio with Caio Cestio Pyramid after Panini
Italian Painting Architectural Capriccio with Caio Cestio Pyramid after Panini

Italian Painting Architectural Capriccio with Caio Cestio Pyramid after Panini

Located in IT

19th century, Italian Painting Architectural Capriccio with the Pyramid of Caio Cestio, Roman painter, after Giovanni Paolo Panini, unsigned. Dimensions: cm H 48 x W 63.5, frame H 6...

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19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Wood

Antique Limoges Enamel Portrait of Woman and Lap Dog
Antique Limoges Enamel Portrait of Woman and Lap Dog

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

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Enamel

Painting Cutout Oil On Canvas Framed With Faux-Bamboo Wood -02
Painting Cutout Oil On Canvas Framed With Faux-Bamboo Wood -02

Painting Cutout Oil On Canvas Framed With Faux-Bamboo Wood -02

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

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Canvas, Paper

Vintage Italian Scarf with 18th Century Gold-Leaf Wood Motif on Canvas
Vintage Italian Scarf with 18th Century Gold-Leaf Wood Motif on Canvas

Vintage Italian Scarf with 18th Century Gold-Leaf Wood Motif on Canvas

By Interi

Located in Columbia, SC

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

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Gold Leaf

19th Century Italian Ecclesiastical "Chiesa Borsa" with Black Crystal Quartz
19th Century Italian Ecclesiastical "Chiesa Borsa" with Black Crystal Quartz

19th Century Italian Ecclesiastical "Chiesa Borsa" with Black Crystal Quartz

By Interi

Located in Columbia, SC

19th century Italian black and white ecclesiastical "chiesa borsa" (church offering bag) adorned with irradiated black crystal points and a natural forming cross-shaped baroque pearl...

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19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Rock Crystal

Pair of intaglio engravings - Francesco Zuccarelli / Joseph Wagner - Venez
Pair of intaglio engravings - Francesco Zuccarelli / Joseph Wagner - Venez

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

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Allegory of Venus with Cupids. Oil on canvas. Enthroned by BOUCHER, François
Allegory of Venus with Cupids. Oil on canvas. Enthroned by BOUCHER, François

Allegory of Venus with Cupids. Oil on canvas. Enthroned by BOUCHER, François

Located in Madrid, ES

Allegory of Venus with Cupids. Oil on canvas. Enthroned by BOUCHER, François (Paris, 1703- 1770). The scene presents, in the background, an idyllic natural landscape, with trees to ...

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18th Century European Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Other

Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Dress by Louis Vigée – 18th Century Pastel
Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Dress by Louis Vigée – 18th Century Pastel

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

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Other

Frame with three miniatures; Marie Antoinette, etc. 19th century.
Frame with three miniatures; Marie Antoinette, etc. 19th century.

Frame with three miniatures; Marie Antoinette, etc. 19th century.

Located in Madrid, ES

Frame with three miniatures. XIX century. Rectangular frame with a textile background that shows three oval miniatures with female portraits, enhanced with gilded bronze frames (the sides are finished with lacework, the central one crowned). The back has two rings at the top to hang the piece on a wall. Starting on the left and identified by small metal signs with black letters, we have “Madame Elisabeth” (Elisabeth of France [1764-1794] was the sister of Louis XVI and eldest daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France, and the Duchess Mary Josefa of Saxony), to “Marie Antoinette” (Marie Antoinette [1755-1793], archduchess of Austria and queen of France, was the daughter of Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa), and to “Madame Lebrun” (Louise-Elisabeth Vigeé LeBrun...

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19th Century European Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Bronze, Other

60's Colorful Floral Oil on Canvas
60's Colorful Floral Oil on Canvas

60's Colorful Floral Oil on Canvas

Located in Sarasota, FL

1960's oil on canvas. A frieze like canvas depicts a a crown like basket of roses, chrysanthemums, daffodils, and more, flanked with large acanthus scrolls and more flowers, against ...

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Mid-20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Antique Hand Painted Self-Portrait in Rococo Frame, 19th Century
Antique Hand Painted Self-Portrait in Rococo Frame, 19th Century

Antique Hand Painted Self-Portrait in Rococo Frame, 19th Century

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, AR

Hand painted with great delicacy, based on the self-portrait. Oil on a richly decorated Rococo style gilded wooden frame.

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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Wood

3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment & Chalcedony Rosettes
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment & Chalcedony Rosettes

3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment & Chalcedony Rosettes

By Interi

Located in Columbia, SC

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

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Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Early 19th Century Belgian Genre Painting of a Wedding
Early 19th Century Belgian Genre Painting of a Wedding

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

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Canvas

"The Gallant Pastor" after François Boucher, 19th century
"The Gallant Pastor" after François Boucher, 19th century

"The Gallant Pastor" after François Boucher, 19th century

By François Boucher

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

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Canvas, Giltwood

19th Century Four Italian Oil on Panel with Allegory of the Four Elements
19th Century Four Italian Oil on Panel with Allegory of the Four Elements

19th Century Four Italian Oil on Panel with Allegory of the Four Elements

Located in IT

19th century four Italian oil on panel with allegory of the four elements Dimensions with frame: cm H 34.5 x L 25; only the table: cm H 29 x L 20.5 The funny oil on panel, by an artist active in Piedmont, in the north of Ital, in the first half of the 19th century, represent the allegory of the four elements of the Earth. They are inspired by the group of four etching prints of circa 1730, made to a design by Rococo painter Jacopo Amigoni (Naples 1682- Paris 1752) and engraved in Venice by Joseph Wagner...

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19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Wood

18th Century Cherub Head Sketch Painting Oil on Canvas
18th Century Cherub Head Sketch Painting Oil on Canvas

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

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Canvas

Copy of Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy, Rococo, Late 20th Century
Copy of Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy, Rococo, Late 20th Century

Copy of Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy, Rococo, Late 20th Century

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

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Paint

The Minuet Copy Painting, Neoclassical Couple Dancing, 43x54 Inches
The Minuet Copy Painting, Neoclassical Couple Dancing, 43x54 Inches

The Minuet Copy Painting, Neoclassical Couple Dancing, 43x54 Inches

Located in Queens, NY

Copy of a painting titled "The Minuet" showing a couple dancing in a crowded courtyard in a neoclassical setting

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Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations

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Paint

Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas, 20th Century, Unframed
Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas, 20th Century, Unframed

Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas, 20th Century, Unframed

Located in Queens, NY

Vintage Venetian-style (20th Century) painting of a canal busy with gondolas winding through a town of classical architecture cast partly in shadow, under a blue sky. Painted on rect...

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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations

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Canvas

Grand Tour Style 20th Century White Domed Church on Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Grand Tour Style 20th Century White Domed Church on Venetian Canal Oil Painting

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

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Canvas

Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Painting on Canvas
Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Painting on Canvas

Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Painting on Canvas

Located in Queens, NY

Italian Venetian-style (20th Century) genre painting of a bridge covered in classical architecture with gondolas rowing through the canals below, on unframed canvas. Wear, paint los...

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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations

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Canvas

Venetian Canal and Gondolas Painting on Canvas
Venetian Canal and Gondolas Painting on Canvas

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

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Canvas

French Provincial Style Framed Oil Painting of a Genre Landscape
French Provincial Style Framed Oil Painting of a Genre Landscape

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

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Paint

Pair of Dresden Sitzendorf Porcelain Wall Lights, Germany, 19th Century
Pair of Dresden Sitzendorf Porcelain Wall Lights, Germany, 19th Century

Pair of Dresden Sitzendorf Porcelain Wall Lights, Germany, 19th Century

Located in Madrid, ES

This pair of Rococo style porcelain wall lights was produced by the German factory Dresden Sitzendorf and dates to the late 19th century, circa 1880. Executed in finely crafted porce...

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19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Porcelain

Two 19th Century Limoges Enamel Portrait Plaques
Two 19th Century Limoges Enamel Portrait Plaques

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

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Enamel

19th Century Rococo Style Painting Oil on Canvas
19th Century Rococo Style Painting Oil on Canvas

19th Century Rococo Style Painting Oil on Canvas

Located in Berlin, DE

Rococo paintings, circa 1900. Oil on canvas. (S-62).

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19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Canvas

18th Century French Pastel Portrait by Saintin Francois Jozan
18th Century French Pastel Portrait by Saintin Francois Jozan

18th Century French Pastel Portrait by Saintin Francois Jozan

Located in Sarasota, FL

18th century pastel painting by French artist Saintin Francois Jozan (1797-1867). The painting is a portrait of two young women, one gazes directly at the viewer while the other look...

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Early 19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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Giltwood

Pair of 18th Century Venetian Views of the Grand Canal
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Views of the Grand Canal

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

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Paper

Pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo Wall Shelves
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo Wall Shelves

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

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Gold Leaf

Pair of Venetian Rococo Mecca Lacquered Painted Wall Brackets
Pair of Venetian Rococo Mecca Lacquered Painted Wall Brackets

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.

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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations

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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.