Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
LOUIS XVI STYLE
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Louis XVI
French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Architectural Corinthian Columns, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XVI style carved walnut and gilt-cast Gesso Architectural Corinthian columns. The slender carved walnut column resting on a square plin...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Gesso, Walnut
19th Century French Louis XVI Faux Marble Pedestal
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century French Louis XVI Faux marble pedestal is a gem of the classical style! Designed in a style that has existed for over 3,000 years! Solid wood painted to look exactly like...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood
19th Century French Louis XVI Carved Pedestal
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century French Louis XVI carved pedestal is the most exquisite way to display your prized sculpture, vase or objet d'art! Hand-crafted exclusively from old-growth quarter-sawn o...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Oak
Pair of 18th Century French Louis XVI Carved Wood Column Pedestals
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of 18th century French Louis XVI carved wood column pedestals. This gorgeous pair of carved wood with gesso Neoclassical style fluted columns or pedestals are great stand alone ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood
Pair of Italian 18th Century Louis XVI Period Patinated and Gilt Torchieres
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and most elegant pair of Italian 18th century Louis XVI period patinated and giltwood Torchière pedestals. Each Torchière is raised by a fine faux painted triangular base...
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood, Giltwood
Pair 19th Century Pedestals by Francoise Linke
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality and rare pair of late 19th century French Louis XVI style pedestals by Francoise Linke.
Each having their original marble tops, wonderful gilded ormolu mounts depicting ribbons, swags, Lion masks and rococo mouldings...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Ormolu
Pair of Italian 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble Pedestals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome pair of Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. marble pedestals. The pair are raised by an impressive and thick Black Belgian marble plinth below a White Carrara marble socle....
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
Fluted column in blackened wood in Corinthian shape - Louis XVI - 19th France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Magnificent column forming a saddle in blackened wood with a corinthian-shaped fluted shaft in the Louis XVI style.
This fantastic straight shaped pedestal is carved from solid beech...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood
French Empire Gilt Bronze Ormolu Mottled Marble & Satinwood Pedestals, a Pair
Located in Germantown, MD
An elegant pair French 19th century Empire style ormolu mounted with marble top inset and 4 side corner mounted veined green marble columns over conforming tapered base and fine chis...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Truncated Louis XVI Style Column With Rudented Fluting
Located in BARSAC, FR
Truncated Column in Louis XVI Style with Rudentated Fluting.
Square base topped with a boudin decorated with crosspieces
White patina
Work from the end of the 19th century.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood
French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Wood and Giltwood pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most unique French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Wood and Giltwood pedestal. This striking patinated black pedestal is raised on a square base with cut out corn...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Mahogany, Giltwood
French 19th Century Louis XVI Pedestal
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Very interesting pedestal by its dimensions and form, very decorative inside a home.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Brass
Louis XVI Style Bronze and Black Marble Pedestal
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Louis XVI Style Black Marble Pedestal. It depicts a large square black marble top supported by a tridimensional rectangular marble column that is attached to a three steps ...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble and Giltwood Pedestals
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble and Giltwood Pedestals. It depicts a round beige marble tops framed with giltwood over a tripod made of cabriole legs decorated with hand car...
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20th Century Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
Set of Four Italian 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble Columns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and monumentally scaled complete set of four Italian 19th century Louis XVI style Sienna and white Carrara marble architectural ionic columns. Each palatially scaled co...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Carrara Marble, Siena Marble
Pair of Italian 19th Century Scagliola and Black Belgian Marble Columns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fine pair of Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. Scagliola and Black Belgian marble columns. Each column is raised by a octagonal Black Belgian marble base below elegant mottled soc...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ebony, Ormolu and Marble pedestals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and extremely high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ebony, Ormolu, Hardstone, Brass, and white Carrara marble pedestals. Each truly impressive single d...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Stone, Marble, Ormolu
Pair Of French Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Pedestal, 19th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
A vibrant set of parquetry pedestals showcasing marble tops, parquetry-patterned curving faces and ornate gilt-bronze mounts and short gilt feet.
The decoration is expressive yet re...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Brass, Bronze
Continental 19th century Louis XVI st. Burl Wood, Fruitwood and Ormolu pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A unique and most decorative Continental 19th century Louis XVI st. Burl Redwood, Ebonized Fruitwood and Ormolu pedestal. This stunning pedestal is raised by an Ebonized Fruitwood pl...
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19th Century Unknown Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Ormolu
A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A tall and elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany pedestal.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Mahogany
20th Century Louis XVI Style Pedestal after Jean Henri Riesener
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Berlin, DE
Podest. Sides with paneled parquet engraved with grid forming, broken through, wide brass strips. Conical body, ending in Lion's paws on three sided retracted plinth, ending in “toup...
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20th Century Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Brass
Early 20th Century Bronze Mounted French Louis XV Style Kingwood Column Pedestal
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Early 20th Century Bronze Mounted French Louis XV Style Kingwood Column Pedestal
Dimensions : 45" Tall X 12" Wide X 12" Deep
This stunning pedestal was made in France in the early...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Bronze
pair of French 18th century Louis XVI Period white Carrara marble pedestals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely pair of French 18th century Louis XVI Period white Carrara marble pedestals. Each pedestal is raised on a square base adorned on all four sides with two tiers of laurel and ...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
French 19th century Belle Epoque period Giltwood and marble pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most decorative and high quality French 19th century Belle Epoque period Louis XVI st. Giltwood and Breccia Violette marble pedestal. This unique pe...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Onyx and Ormolu pedestal column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and extremely elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Onyx and Ormolu pedestal column. This stunning pedestal is raised by a square Onyx base with a stepped design and d...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Onyx, Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu pedestal. This beautiful pedestal is raised on a square marble block supported on an ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Griotte Marble, Ormolu
French Louis XVI Style Carved Wood Pedestal
Located in Dallas, TX
A large French Louis XVI style carved wood pedestal with a faux marble and gilded finish. This is a very decorative piece that can hold a...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Gold Leaf
French 19th century Belle Epoque Period Mahogany and Ormolu pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most unique French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Epoque Period Mahogany and Ormolu pedestal. This beautiful pedestal is supported on squared topie shaped Mahogany l...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Ormolu
Impressive Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Pedestal
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive good quality 19th century marble topped, marquetry inlaid pedestal, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts of scrolling foli...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Ormolu
A Spectacular Pair of 19th Century Italian Painted and Gilt Columnar Pedestals
Located in New York, NY
A Spectacular Pair of 19th Century Italian Painted and Gilt Columnar Pedestals. This pair of Louis XVI-style painted and gilt wooden columns features rounded, fluted tops with gilt f...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and most decorative French 18th century Louis XVI period patinated faux painted marble and giltwood pedestal column. The column is raised by a circular base with a finely...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood, Giltwood
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Vert Antique Marble and Ormolu Columns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert Antique marble and ormolu pedestal columns. Each pedestal is raised by a hexagonal base with a decorativ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Italian 19th Century Louis XVI Style Columns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful pair of Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Royale, St. Maximin and Sienna marble pedestal columns. The columns are raised by f...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Marble
French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Wood Pedestal, 19th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
A vibrant set of parquetry pedestals showcasing marble tops, parquetry-patterned curving faces and ornate gilt-bronze mounts and short gilt feet.
The decoration is expressive yet re...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Brass, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Onyx and Red Marble Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular French 19th century Louis XVI st. onyx and red marble pedestal column. The column is raised by a square base with elegant ormolu feet and a most decorative stepped desi...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Onyx, Marble, Ormolu
Regulateur after antique Jean-Henri Riesener in the Style of the 18th Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Piano black polished veneer on solid pinewood. Exceptionally fine floral, bronze. It takes place in a magnificent gilt decor of three winged children playing with garlands on clouds.
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20th Century Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Beech
Italian 19th Century Louis XVI St. White Carrara Marble Pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble pedestal. This exquisite circular pedestal is raised by a three level stepped plinth. The shaft is wonderfully desi...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
19th Century Ormolu and Specimen Wood Pedestal after Riesener
By E. Kahn, Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in London, GB
A Pedestal by E. Kahn of Paris
After a model by Jean-Henri Riesener
Constructed in the Neo-Classical manner in fine specimen woods and high quality ormolu work; the incurved base, ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
19th Century Ormolu Mounted Pedestal after Jean Henri Riesener
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This wall-side gilt bronze mounted pedestal with stepped veined marble top with canted front corners, above the rectangular upper section centred by a Mercury mask and sunburst with crossed lower branches, the angles with an acanthus-cast scrolled volute hung with foliate festoons, the sides inset with foliate swags, above the tapering upright, the paneled front cast with a flower-filled vase flanked by scrolling foliage and floral swags, with paneled parquetry sides, on lion-paw feet and shaped plinth, on toupie feet.
This pedestal is a copy of the celebrated model made circa 1785 by Jean-Henri Riesener...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Fruitwood, Ormolu and Marble Pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning French 19th century Louis XVI st. ebonized fruit wood, ormolu and marble pedestal column, signed L'Hoste. The column is raised on a square base with a large molded socle a...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Faux Marble and Giltwood Pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very attractive French 19th century Louis XVI st. faux marble and giltwood pedestal. The pedestal is raised by a square base below two decorative circular giltwood bands. The maste...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood, Giltwood
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Rouge Griotte Marble & Ormolu Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu pedestal column. The pedestal is raised by a square base below a mottled border, a superb mirrored Coeur-...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French Louis XVI Style, Two-Toned Carrera and Grey Marble Pedestals
Located in New York, NY
Neoclassical pair of palatial antique French Louis XVI style hand-carved Carrera white and grey marble pedestals of unusual form embellished with raised three dimensional neoclassica...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Griotte Marble, Ormolu and Bronze Pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking French 19th century Louis XVI St. Rouge Griotte marble, ormolu and silvered bronze pedestal column. The column is raised by an elegant square base with a stepped design an...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Fleur de Pêcher marble and Ormolu pedestal. This exquisitely decorative pedestal is raised on a square marble base with Or...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Giltwood & Patinated Wood Pedestals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and most elegant pair of French 18th century Louis XVI period giltwood and patinated wood pedestals/plant stands. Each pedestal is raised by a circular giltwood base with...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Wood, Giltwood
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Onyx and Ormolu Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and extremely elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. onyx and ormolu pedestal column. The pedestal is raised by a square base with a stepped design and decorated with a...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Onyx, Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Pedestals
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Alabastro Fiorito Antico Pedestal Columns.
The pedestals are of classical form with finely figured Alabastro Foiorito columns and gilt...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Alabaster, Bronze
Italian 19th Century Louis XVI St. Vert De Patricia Marble Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Patricia marble pedestal column. The column is raised by an elegant octagonal base with a mottled fillet and fine lightly curve...
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19th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
19th Century French Inlaid Pedestal After Francoise Linke
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th Century Breche Violette marble top, bombe shaped pedestal, with wonderful scrolling foliate gilded ormolu mounts, Marquetry inlaid classical decoration to th...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Mahogany
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Vert de Patricia Marble Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fine French 19th century Louis XVI St. Vert de Patricia marble pedestal column. The pedestal is raised by an octagonal base below a socle pedestal with an elegant mottled border. T...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
19th Century Pair of Kingwood Porcelain-Mounted Pedestals in the Louis XVI Style
Located in London, GB
A pair of pedestals in the Louis XVI manner
Constructed in kingwood, and dressed with ormolu gilt bronze mounts; rising from stepped rect...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Plaster Columns with a Faux Marble Finish
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A pair of beautiful French 19th Century Louis XVI st. plaster columns with a faux marble finish. Each superb column/pedestal is raised on a circular base with moulded borders. The co...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Plaster
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble, Granite and Ormolu Pedestal Column
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte, Campan Rubané, Brèche de Sicile marble, Granite and ormolu pedestal column. The column is raised by a square Brèche de...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Granite, Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Mahogany Pedestals, Attributed to Sormani, circa 1870
By Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very fine pair of Louis XVI Style gilt bronze mounted mahogany pedestals, attributed to Sormani.
French, circa 1870.
The pedestals are of tapering form with finely chiselled...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Bronze
Majestic Pedestal in the Louis XVI Style According to J. Henri Riesener
Located in Berlin, DE
Solid coniferous wood ebones. Sides decorated with grid-shaped, perforated wide measuring strips. Cover plate with stepped veined marble. A conical corpus in a lioness, ending on thr...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Beech
French Wrought Iron Marble Top Pedestal stand
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a wonderful wrought iron Marble top pedestal table. It features a braided or twisted form of wrought iron work with piercings throughou...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble, Wrought Iron
19th Century Green Onyx and Marble Rotating Pedestal with porcelaine plaque
Located in New York, NY
Finely crafted antique pedestal in green onyx and variegated brick red marble with square top that turns smoothly 360 degrees, with gilt metal mounts and painted cartouches depicting...
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Late 19th Century Antique Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
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Marble
Louis Xvi pedestals and columns for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI pedestals and columns for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Mid-20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage pedestals and columns created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include building and garden elements, decorative objects, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with stone, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI pedestals and columns made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original pedestals and columns, popular names associated with this style include François Linke, and E. Kahn. 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 pedestals and columns differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $724 and tops out at $215,000 while the average work can sell for $14,150.