Mirror, Napoleon III-era Mirror, 19th Century, Mercury Mirror.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Mirror, Napoleon III-era mirror, 19th century, mercury mirror. 19th-century mirror, Napoleon III period, embossed copper leaf mirror, blackened wood, mercury mirror.
Mercury Glass, Wood
Louis XV Gilt Carved Mercury Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Louis XV gilt carved mercury mirror. Smaller scale delicately carved gilt frame mirror with inner egg banded moulding with carved floral knopf centered on each side, with fabulous wa...
Mirror, Giltwood
$2,531Sale Price|20% Off
Napoleon III mercury mirror
Located in LYON, FR
Maison Lecan presents this large Napoleon III mercury mirror (circa 1860–1880), crafted in giltwood and stucco, featuring parecloses and topped with an ornate cresting.
Stucco, Giltwood
Mirror, Louis XVI-era Mirror, 18th Century, Mercury Mirror.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Mirror, Louis XVI-era mirror, 18th century, mercury mirror.
Silver
19th century french "Louis Philippe" mercury mirror.
Located in LYON, FR
19th century mercury mirror. Stucco frame with rich gilded floral motifs and original patina.
Stucco, Pine
Rectangular Bevelled Giltwood Mirror with 19th C Mercury mirror plate
Located in Reepham, GB
A stunning rectangular giltwood mirror with a distinctive 19th Century beveled mercury mirror plate in a later frame.
Giltwood
Giltwood Wall mirror with 18th Century Mercury Mirror Plate
Located in Reepham, GB
A striking rectangular giltwood wall mirror with single candle arm. The heavily foxed 18th Century bevelled edge mercury mirror plate is housed in a later classic rectangular gilded ...
Giltwood
$1,031Sale Price|19% Off
Napoleon III mercury mirror (circa 1860–1880)
Located in LYON, FR
Maison Lecan presents this Napoleon III mercury mirror (circa 1860–1880), crafted in giltwood and stucco, crowned with an ornate cresting.
Stucco, Giltwood
A Gothic Revival oak and inlaid wall mirror with the original mercury mirror
Located in London, GB
A Gothic Revival oak and inlaid wall mirror with the original mercury mirror.
Oak
Silver Plated Metal Tray and 19th Century Antique Mercury Mirror
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Silver plated metal tray and 19th century antique mercury mirror. Centerpiece display, 19th century silver-plated metal tray and 19th century antique mercury mirror.
Metal
Pair of 18th Century Italian Ecclesiastical Embroideries on Mercury Mirrors
By Interi
Located in Columbia, SC
The pair have been preserved and placed onto antique mercury mirror to create symmetrical works of art to grace any wall, creating a beautiful artistic work of historical and ecclesi...
Mirror, Fabric, Thread, Beads
Pair of 17th Century Italian Angel Heads on Antique Mercury Mirrors
By Interi
Located in Columbia, SC
The fragments have been mounted onto two coordinating antique mercury mirrors. The pair is put together by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the artist and creative director of Interi.
Mirror, Textile, Mercury Glass, Wood
17th Century Gold Leaf Carved Wood and Mercury Mirror, circa 1600
By Travail Francais
Located in Atlanta, GA
Most remarkably, the piece retains its original mercury glass mirror insert, a rare survival that underscores its provenance and historical integrity.
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
19th Century French Silver Gilt Bistro Mirror with Mercury Plate, 1880
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
19th Century French silver gilt bistro mirror. With original mercury mirror plate with foxing.
Silver Leaf
An 18th C Bevelled Mercury Mirror Plate in a 20th C Queen Anne Style Gesso Frame
Located in Reepham, GB
An 18th-century Vauxhall bevelled and distressed mecury mirror plate surrounded by a 20th-century gilt gesso frame with double candle arms and gilded brass sconce plates. The intric...
Gesso, Giltwood
Decorative Scientific Concave Mercury Mirror Maroon Leather Ebony
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A unusual scientific mirror, French in origin circa 1880 The mirror is mercury, with age related oxidization and pitting to the plate.
Leather, Mirror, Ebony
French Brass Bistro Mirror
Located in København, København
French bistro mirror with a thick reeded brass frame and the original mercury mirror glass.
Brass
$2,993
Brass Bistro Mirror
Located in Arundel, GB
Large, French, Brass Bistro mirror. A moulded brass frame formed over a wooden frame and surrounding a foxed, mercury mirror plate.
Brass
English Georgian Wall Mirror
Located in Kingsbridge, GB
Georgian Giltwood Mirror, with original Mercury mirror plate and panelled back.
Giltwood
French 19th Century Gilt Mirror
Located in palm beach, FL
Superb gilded mirror of exceptional quality, without any lack or alteration, mercury mirror, very decorative and elegant, can be installed in the vertical as a horizontal.
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
19th Century Brass Reeded Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
A fabulous tall late 19th-century French mirror crafted in a reeded brass frame with wonderful minimalist lines, notable features include antique mercury mirror plate.
Brass
Large Victorian Overmantel Mirror in Mercury Glass, 19th Century
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Very Large Victorian Overmantel Mirror This is a Large Example of a good quality Victorian Overmantel, the 3” moulded mirror frame was originally white and has hints of gold, the o...
Mercury Glass
French Brass Bistro Mirror
Located in København, København
French bistro mirror with a thick reeded brass frame and the original mercury mirror glass.
Brass
19Th Century Faded Velvet Foxed Mercury Convex Country House Mirror
Located in Lowestoft, GB
The original mercury mirror plate has been beautifully oxidised and pitted by time.
Velvet, Glass
French Provincial 18th Century Mirror
Located in Paris, FR
French provincial work from the 18th century. Mercury mirror in carved, gilded wooden frame. Centered on a basket filled with fruit in a vine environment.
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Elegant and refined pair of antiques carved and gilded wood mirrors
Located in Milano, IT
Elegant and refined pair of carved and gilded wood mirrors with mercury mirrors. Ligurian manufacture, Italy, ca. 1770.
Mirror
Gilded Louis XIV Style Mirror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An elaborately hand carved and gilded Louis XIV style frame with original slightly mottled mercury mirror.
Wood
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Mirrors
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Surmounted by and elegant hand carved giltwood crest with its inset mirror, retaining their original mercury mirror plates.
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
Gilt Mirror Medaillon Napoleon III
Located in palm beach, FL
Around the oval mercury mirror, friezes richly garnished with garlands of flowers.
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
$2,041
Giltwood Empire Mirror
Located in Arundel, GB
The frame being more refrained and Empire in style. The mirror retains its original mercury mirror plate and backing boards.
Mirror, Giltwood
19th Century Italian Baroque Style Giltwood Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century Italian Baroque Style Giltwood Mirror. Our outstanding antique Italian Baroque style gilt wood beveled mirror retains the original mercury mirror and really makes a stat...
Mirror, Giltwood
Early 19th Century Italian Giltwood Mirror
Located in London, GB
A fine early nineteenth century giltwood mirror of large scale, with stylised anthemions to the corners, with mercury mirror plate.
Giltwood
Late 19th Century French Original Gilded Mirror
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Late 19th Century French gilded mirror with decorative carved detailing. With original mercury mirror plate and original back plate.
Wood
18th C Italian Silver Leaf Mirror
Located in Arundel, GB
A 18th century Italian, Rococco mirror. Retaining its original silverleaf finish, mercury mirror plates and backing boards.
Silver Leaf
Large 18th Century French Louis XVI Period Original Mirror
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Large 18th Century French Louis XVI period mirror in carved wood and original paint. Original mercury mirror.
Beech
A George I Giltwood Pier Mirror
Located in London, GB
An early 18th century giltwood pier glass with finely carved cresting, punched decoration to the frame, retaining the original mercury mirror plate.
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
$1,411Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century Empire Mahogany Dressing Table Mirror, 1800s
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Antique mercury mirror.
Mahogany
English Victorian Mahogany Dressing Table - Black Marble Top and Mercury Mirror
Located in Firenze, IT
Above are three additional drawers providing practical concealed storage. The upper mirror is fully adjustable and retains its original mercury glass plate, framed by a deeply carve...
Brass, Bronze
Early 18th Century Silver Gilt Oval Mirror
Located in Reepham, GB
A stunning, well proportioned 18th Century Silver Gilt Oval Mirror with old process mercury mirror plate. Carving to top, bottom and either sides.
Silver Leaf
A 19th Century gilt and ebonised pier mirror
Located in Reepham, GB
A gilt 19th Century pier mirror with a decorative ebonised frieze above the original rectangular foxed mercury mirror plate housed in an ebonised reeded slip.
Giltwood
18th Century Italian Carved Pine Mirror
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Unusual mid-18th Century Italian carved pine wall mirror. The over-hanging pediment with deep carving depicting hanging draps and putti, around its original mercury mirror plate.
Pine
Diminutive Antique French 19th Century Gilt Mirror
Located in London, GB
Original mercury mirror. A handsome example.
Brass
$12,179
18th Century Italian Mirror
Located in London, England
A fine eighteenth century carved and gilt mirror with foliate cresting, crowned by carved feather plumage and bearing flower heads and with original mercury mirror plate and border. ...
Giltwood
Louis XIV Style Golden Wood Mirror
Located in Beaune, FR
Good general condition and mercury mirror. Dimensions Height 1m12 Width 70cm Depth 4cm
Giltwood
Late Gustavian or Early Biedermeier Painted Wall Mirror
Located in Atlanta, GA
Antique painted mirror with gilded accents and beveled mercury mirror.
Mirror
Large Antique Floor Mirror
Located in København, København
Beautiful antique large French mirror, with the original mercury mirror in a cream color painted wooden frame.
Mirror, Wood
Early 19th Century French Trumeau Mirror with Gilt Frame, Circa 1810
Located in New Orleans, LA
A finely painted naïve landscape with castle, a stone bridge over a small river with 2 figures in the foreground, a woman riding a donkey and a man walking on the road. Original merc...
Canvas, Mercury Glass
A delicate petit 19th Century gilt pier mirror
Located in Reepham, GB
A delicate, petit 19th Century gilt pier mirror with a decorative ebonised reeded slip housing the original foxed mercury mirror plate.
Giltwood
English Regency Giltwood Overmantle Mirror
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Retaining its original sparkling mercury mirror plate. The whole dry scraped back to reveal the original water gilding.
Mirror, Giltwood
Louis XVI Gilt Carved Oval Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI Gilt Carved Oval Mirror. Louis XVI gilt carved oval frame enclosing bronze mercury mirror plate, wood carved frame with acanthus leaf, laurel leaf and egg and dart banding ...
Mirror, Giltwood
George I Painted and Gilt Wall Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
A very pretty and rare painted Georgian wall mirror, circa 1720, with the original foxed mercury plate.
Mirror, Wood
18th Century French Louis XV Provençal Mirror
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An important large 18th Century French Louis XV Provençal mirror. Of beautiful hand carved construction with its original mercury mirror plate.
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century French Hand Blown Mercury Mirrored Glass Footed Vase
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Late 19th Century Hand Blown Mercury Glass & Decorated Vase. Some wear to the decoration.
Glass, Blown Glass
Antique Large Gilt Convex Mirror
Located in Sherborne, GB
Antique English Regency convex mirror of country house proportions circa 1815 with slightly worn through gilding, retaining its original mercury mirror glass with has a slightly crac...
Gold Leaf
Late 18th Century Northern Italian Rococo Mirror
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Terminating in scrolling feet to the base, with the original mercury mirror plate. Please note this mirror has had some restoration over the years and currently has its removable ...
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
$1,326 / item
19th century painted mirror
Located in Castle Douglas, GB
With a heavy mercury mirror plate with some foxing, the panelled back with chamfered edge.
Mirror, Wood
Lacquered mirror Louis XV style Napoleon3 period
Located in Grenoble, FR
Large Louis XV style pareclose mirror from the Napoleon III period, late 19th century, original lacquered stucco, decoration of shells, leaves and flowers gaps and shine, original me...
Wood
The road from early innovations in reflective glass to the alluring antique and vintage mirrors in trendy modern interiors has been a long one but we’re reminded of the journey everywhere we look.
In many respects, wall mirrors, floor mirrors and full-length mirrors are to interior design what jeans are to dressing. Exceedingly versatile. Universally flattering. Unobtrusively elegant. And while all mirrors are not created equal, even in their most elaborate incarnation, they're still the heavy lifters of interior design, visually enlarging and illuminating any space.
We’ve come a great distance from the polished stone that served as mirrors in Central America thousands of years ago or the copper mirrors of Mesopotamia before that. Today’s coveted glass Venetian mirrors, which should be cleaned with a solution of white vinegar and water, were likely produced in Italy beginning in the 1500s, while antique mirrors originating during the 19th century can add the rustic farmhouse feel to your mudroom that you didn’t know you needed.
By the early 20th century, experiments with various alloys allowed for mirrors to be made inexpensively. The geometric shapes and beveled edges that characterize mirrors crafted in the Art Deco style of the 1920s can bring pizzazz to your entryway, while an ornate LaBarge mirror made in the Hollywood Regency style makes a statement in any bedroom. Friedman Brothers is a particularly popular manufacturer known for decorative round and rectangular framed mirrors designed in the Rococo, Louis XVI and other styles, including dramatic wall mirrors framed in gold faux bamboo that bear the hallmarks of Asian design.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, mid-century modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary mirrors. Today’s simple yet chic mantel mirror frames, for example, often neutral in color, owe to the understated mirror designs introduced in the postwar era.
Sculptor and furniture maker Paul Evans had been making collage-style cabinets since at least the late 1950s when he designed his Patchwork mirror — part of a series that yielded expressive works of combined brass, copper and pewter — for Directional Furniture during the mid-1960s. Several books celebrating Evans’s work were published beginning in the early 2000s, as his unconventional furniture has been enjoying a moment not unlike the resurgence that the Ultrafragola mirror is seeing. Designed by the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass in 1970, the Ultrafragola mirror, in all its sensuous acrylic splendor, has become somewhat of a star thanks to much-lauded appearances in shelter magazines and on social media.
On 1stDibs, we have a broad selection of vintage and antique mirrors and tips on how to style your contemporary mirror too.
Repairs and replacements can go toward devaluing any piece of antique or vintage furniture, and any modifications or repairs done to a centuries-old mirror should be handled by experts and executed with care. Because antique Venetian mirrors were handcrafted by Italian artisans and can in some cases be hundreds of years old, it is strongly recommended that you consult with experts in the field of restoring antique or decorative mirrors in the event that your piece should require restorative work.
In "Object Permanence 4," on view at the 1stdibs Gallery, Emma Holland Denvir and Leah Ring have brought together pieces that range from polished to playful.
A new generation of creative minds is reinventing the use of clay through sculptural forms and bold ideas.
Leading talents tell us what goes into their mirrored creations and where to put them on a wall.
These are the fairest of them all.