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Louis XIV style furniture

  Louis XIV, Le Roy Soleil, ruled France for 72 years until he died in 1715. It was the longest reign of any French or other major European monarch. He was born in 1638.
Louis XIV is a French furniture style of rounded forms and curved lines. Baroque furniture is associated with Louis XIV.
The construction, during his reign, of The Chateau de Versailles is one of the largest and most extravagant monuments in Europe.
Masks, heads of sphinxes and satyrs were all included among the fashionable motifs modeled in gilded bronze.
Among the principal woods used in Louis XIV furniture where ebony, walnut, and oak. Various woods such as almond, boxwood, holly and pear wood where employed in marquetry work.
Richly carved chairs, canapes and tables, with scrolled legs, where generally made more brilliant by gilding.
 
 
             
  mirror in Louis XIV style, baroque   French commode in Louis XIV style   kingwood, ebony commode   bureau   casket and stand in Louis XIV style   ebony, polychrome commode  
 
                       
  centre table                      

mirror in Louis XIV style

 
Mirror, 18th century
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commode in Louis XIV style

 
Commode
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kingwood, ebony commode

 
kingwood, ebony commode

bureau in Louis XIV style

 
Bureau

casket and stand

 
Casket and stand

ebony, polychrome commode

 
Ebony, polychrome commode

centre table

 
Centre table
                   

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