Style > Louis XVI
Louis XVI
From 1775 to 1790.
This style marks the return to the “purity” of the arts of Antiquity. Artists created a neo-Classical style based on fanciful ideas of Ancient Greece, because at the time, Greece was an inaccessible Turkish territory, and only a few European archaeologists traveled there. However their surveys fired the public’s imagination: people dined “à la grecque” (Greek style), dressed “à la grecque” and built gardens with ruins “à la grecque”. The dominant of the style is straight lines and the use of an Antique repertoire of forms, but here through the influence of philosophers Rousseau and Diderot, nature and sensitivity became central to the style.
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Classical Louis XVI style white Carrara marble fireplace mantel from the 19th century with fluted jambs and entablature.
Width : 3' 9'' ¼ 115cm Height : 3' 5'' ¾ 106cm
Louis XVI neoclassical style fireplace mantel in white Carrare marble of almost semi-statuary quality alternating with "Fleur de pêcher" (peach flower) marble creating an elegant design. The peach flower hu…
Width : 4' '' ⅞ 124cm Height : 3' 5'' ⅜ 105cm
Powerful wrought iron entrance gate with very thick iron (1 inch 1/4 to 2 inch) and beautifully simple design.
Width : 10' 3'' ⅝ 314cm Height : 14' 1'' ¼ 430cm
Pair of wrought iron balconies from the 18th century with slight returns on either end of the railing.
Width : 6' 4'' 193cm Height : 3' '' ¼ 92cm
18th century overmantel with an oil canvas painting of two putti making a fire, one sitting warming himself before the flames, as another brings more wood. The painting is above a mirror and both mirror and …
Width : 4' 1'' ¼ 125cm Height : 6' 4'' ⅜ 194cm
Painted wood overmantel with a large mirror framed and topped with a pediment in gilded wood in the Louis XVI style. The sculpted molding of the frame is decorated with acanthus leaves bordered by a line of …
Width : 4' 3'' ⅛ 130cm Height : 6' 6'' ¾ 200cm
Very nice 18th century mantel piece in a marble called ''Gris des Ardennes'' or ''Grey Sainte Anne'' from Belgium. The square rosettes above the jambs were carved in the white part of the marble, creating a …
Width : 4' 9'' ⅛ 145cm Height : 3' 7'' ¼ 110cm
Beautiful cast iron central column shaped pedestal decorated all around in a Neo-Classical style: garlands of foliage linking ram heads to medallions with profiles run around the shaft. The column is fillete…
Height : 3' 8'' ⅛ 112cm
Louis XVI style inside doors with stucco décorations. The pine wood is painted and we recommend not stripping it off.
Width : 4' 8'' ¾ 144cm Height : 9' 9'' ¾ 299cm
The originality of this mantel resides in the tapered semi-detached columns: with flutes filled partially above with chains of husks, narrowing down to a motif of laurel leaves, followed by a succession of s…
Width : 5' 1'' 155cm Height : 3' 7'' ¼ 110cm
18th century mantel facade. The jambs have upright strict fluted columns and scrolled capitals, topped by a rosette. A wave motif runs across the entablature. The overall effect is an elegantly simple and cl…
Width : 4' 11'' 150cm Height : 3' 8'' ⅛ 112cm
Complete oak paneling from a 19th century dining room. There are four walls of paneling. Two facing walls are each decorated with a large beautiful still-life painting of flowers in elaborately carved oak fr…
Width : 18' '' ½ 550cm Height : 12' '' ⅞ 368cm