Rococo Picture Frames
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
French Rectangular Wood Gold Gilded Art Frame Rococo Style
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A charming wooden frame that is suitable for most style artwork including prints, watercolors as well as oil on board paintings. This frame certainly captures that vintage European v...
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20th Century European Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Wood Gold Gilt Painted Art Frame
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Fabulous wooden rectangular frame with fantastic gilt. This wood frame will accommodate artwork 12x14 . Add some vintage charm to your favorite water color, print of oil painting wit...
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Mid-20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Paint
Small French Art Frame In the Style of Rococo Rectangular Gold Gilded
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A charming European ornate picture frame that is suitable for most style artwork including prints, watercolors as well as oil on board paintings. This frame certainly captures that v...
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Late 19th Century European Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gold
French Rectangular Art Frame Gold Gilt in the Style of Rococo
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A charming European ornate picture frame that is suitable for most style artwork including prints, watercolors as well as oil on board paintings. This frame certainly captures that v...
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Mid-20th Century European Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gold
Mid-Century French Wood Painted Ornate Art Frame
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Fabulous wooden rectangular frame with fantastic patina. This wood frame will accommodate a 12x9 piece of artwork. Add some vintage charm to your favorite water color, print of oil p...
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Mid-20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Wood, Gesso, Paint
French Bronze Rococo Style Desktop Picture Frame
Located in Barntrup, DE
French Rococo-style bronze photo or picture desktop easel frame from circa the end of the 1920s.
This magnificent ornate frame is made of bronze and has an easel supporting leg on t...
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1920s French Vintage Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Rococo frame. Gilded wood. 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Rococo frame. Gilded wood. 18th century.
Rectangular frame made of carved and gilded wood, and decorated in the corners and the centres of the sides with carvings of architectural e...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Other
Huge 19th Century Venetian Grotto Frame, Italy 1780
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monumental 18th Century Venetian Grotto Frame, created circa 1780 in Italy. This frame is impressive as an decorative element or the encasement for a treasured painting, mirror or im...
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1770s Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Silver Leaf
Pair of Antique French Gilt Bronze Rococo Style Picture Frames, ca. 1890
Located in Barntrup, DE
Pair of Antique French gilt bronze Rococo style picture frames, ca. 1890
This adorable pair of delicate gilt bronze picture frames features typical Rococo-style motifs - rocailles, f...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Large French Rectangular Art Frame Gold Gilt in the Style of Rococo
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Large European ornate picture frame that is suitable for most style artwork including prints, watercolors as well as oil on board paintings. This frame certainly captures that vint...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gold
18th Century Venetian Giltwood Frames A Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
A pair of Italian carved and giltwood frames. Most likely Venetian. Hand carved wood in a wonderfully worn gold gilt patina.
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Large Carved Gilt Wood Frame, French Rococo Style
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large Ornate French Rococo Style Carved Ornate Gilt Wood Frame. This gorgeous hand-crafted frame has lots of charming details including shell motifs and cross hatch features. This su...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gesso, Wood
18th Century Venetian Gilt Carved and Polychrome Frame
Located in New York, NY
A rare Venetian hand-carved and gilt picture frame, with hand-painted detail and background panels. Opening size: 24 1/2" x 19 3/8".
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Leaf
Set of Two 18th Century Italian Silk Frames with Embroidery and Saints Figures
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of antique embroidered frames, rectangular shape, in ivory colored silk satin with embroidery in cotton and gold lamé of floral elements and love knots. These are devotional monastic Italian...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Paste, Silk
Enamel cloissoné and gilt bronze picture frame. France, late 19th century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Enamel cloissoné and gilt bronze picture frame. France, late 19th century.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Italian Gilt Sterling Blue and Red Enamel 19th Century Picture Frame
Located in Norwood, NJ
Antique (gilt) vermeil over sterling silver ornate picture frame with red and blue vitreous enamel, Italy, circa 1890. Has hallmark on front. Oval...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Frame, Wood, Late 17th-Early 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Framework. Carved wood, late 17th-early 18th century.
Rectangular frame that presents a "base structure" of straight lines, combining moldings of different widths and finishes (inside, a golden band with Fine plant details towards the corners; then a thin red one, and a wider green one, these two the latter imitating marble; outside, another fine gilt molding), enhanced with a series of carvings of vegetal elements in the corners (symmetrical composition), two ovoid elements on the long sides and a highly elaborate cresting with vegetal elements, rockeries, scrolls, flowers and imitation of fabrics (which are joined with those ovoid elements mentioned).
The combination of red, green and gold is common in certain types of frames (compare, for example, with the terracotta of Salamanca made around the middle of the 16th century by Juan de Juni, which is kept in the Victoria and Albert Museum). On it, a series of carvings with a lot of movement and depth have been added, showing Baroque influence (reminiscent in certain details of works such as the frame of the Immaculate Conception by Alonso Cano...
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Early 18th Century European Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Italian Rococo Pierce Carved Giltwood Frame with Shell Decoration
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Rococo style pierce carved giltwood frame with shell decoration, probably Italian in origin, dating to the 17th/18th century, in very good condition, with minor gilt rubs, imp...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
Located in London, GB
A fine 19th century gold leaf cover frame decorate in flower motifs.
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Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Gesso
19th Century Italian Carved Frame
Located in New York, NY
Finely carved and gilded 19th century Italian frame. Features continuous pierced carving decorative design. Carved out of a solid piece of fruitwood, the example is in excellent cond...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
By Rocco Lodise
Located in London, GB
19th century giltwood and gesso frame decorated with laurel wreath and fruits.
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Gesso
French Art Frame In the Style of Rococo Rectangular Gold Gilded
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A charming European ornate picture frame that is suitable for most style artwork including prints, watercolors as well as oil on board paintings. This frame certainly captures that v...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Gold
18th Century French Rococo Gilded Bronze Frame Mounted on Green Velvet
Located in New York, NY
!8th century French Rococo bronze frame mounted on a velvet covered wood back. Very rare in its rich detail of winged cherubs. This piece was once most certainly a frame for an impor...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Bronze
Monumental 19th Century Giltwood Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very unusual. Have never seen one like this. Most likely had a painting inset, but mirror could be placed inside. Stand alone or hang on wall.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Ornamental Mirror Frame, Giltwood, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
It requires restoration.
Rectangular cornucopia with carved and gilded wooden frame decorated with a series of smooth moldings and with a very elaborate finish on the upper part (ar...
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18th Century European Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Metal
Finesse Originals Rococo Figural Cherub Grapevine Large Fiberglass Art Frame
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage 1970s Finesse Originals Rococo Figural Cherub Grapevine Large Fiberglass Art Frame. Item features multiple cherub angels surrounding frame, flowers and leaves, fruit and vine...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Fiberglass
Large Vintage Silk Scarf Pale Blue Gold Eiffel Tower Paris
Located in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Title:
Large Vintage Silk Scarf Pale Blue
Description:
Beautiful and rare vintage designer silk scarf.
Very pretty with multiple detailed p...
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Late 20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Silk
Rococo French Style Carved Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Hand carved and gilt, French style large mirror frame, pair available.
Category
1990s North American Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Large Vintage Lanvin Silk Scarf Pale Blue Butterflies Fruits French
Located in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Large vintage Lanvin silk scarf pale blue butterflies fruits French
Beautiful and rare vintage silk scarf
Very pretty with butterfly and d...
Category
Late 20th Century French Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Silk
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
By Rocco Turzi Decoration
Located in London, GB
A highly detailed late 19th century gold metal leaf cover frame decorated in golden floral motifs.
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Gesso
Rococo picture frames for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo picture frames for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage picture frames created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, wall decorations, mirrors and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo picture frames 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 picture frames, popular names associated with this style include Limoges, and Royal Vienna Porcelain. 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 picture frames differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $75 and tops out at $25,000 while the average work can sell for $1,227.