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Antique Gilt Weathered Barbizon Mirror with Mercury Glass
Located in New York, NY
Antique gilt weathered Barbizon mirror with mercury glass. Barbizon mirror with mercury glass
Category
Antique 19th Century French Barbizon School Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
18th Century Italian Gilt Wood Mirror Louis XV with Mercury Plate
Located in Milan, IT
An Italian Louis XV carved and gilt wood mirror dating back to the mid-18th century. Of Italian
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Pine
18th Century Italian Silver Gilt Mirror with Mercury Glass Plate
Located in London, GB
A fine 18th century carved and silver gilt Italian mirror, with mercury glass plate.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Silver Leaf
French Gilt Louis XVI Wall Mirror, 18th Century with Original Mercury Glass
Located in Salzburg, AT
Impressive classical wall mirror from Paris represents a carved and gilded wooden frame (15.5cm
Category
Antique 1770s French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Gold Leaf
H 59.06 in W 43.31 in D 2.76 in
Fine 19th Century French Louis XVI Mercury Gilt Hand Carved Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century Louis XVI Fire gilt hand carved fine mirror, Beautiful quality with fine
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
1850-1880 Pair of Mirror Gilted in the Mercury N 3
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of mirrors in a wood frame and decorated with stucco mouldings gilded with the sheet. Mirrors
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Giltwood Wall mirror with 18th Century Mercury Mirror Plate
Located in Reepham, GB
bevelled edge mercury mirror plate is housed in a later classic rectangular gilded frame mounted with a
Category
Antique 18th Century Girandoles
Materials
Giltwood
French Late 18th Century Stacked Mercury Mirror
Located in Buchanan, NY
Large French late 18th century stacked mercury mirror in a gilt frame. Good condition, wear
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror
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
Category
Antique 19th Century Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
H 17.33 in W 29.53 in D 1.58 in
18th Century Venetian Mirror, Faux Marble, Gilded, Original Mercury Glass
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exuberant Italian Rococo mirror with parcel-gilt and faux marble and a double mercury plate
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Golden Wood Mirror - Mercury Ice - Period: Louis XV
Located in CRÉTEIL, FR
Lovely little mirror in carved wood, gilded with 24 carat gold leaf, Louis XV period, old mercury
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
19th Century, Parcel Gilt Relief Mirrors
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A pair of wonderful, hand-carved, Florentine mirrors with foliate forms throughout, crowned with
Category
Antique 1820s Italian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Wood
French 19th Century Gold Gilt Rectiliner Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
red base paint peaks through the gold gilt, adding to the overall patina. The beautiful mercury mirror
Category
Antique 19th Century French Other Wall Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
George II Palladian Gilt Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George II gilt carved wood and gesso mirror, the central cartouche with cabochon carved center
Category
Antique 1740s English George II Wall Mirrors
Materials
Gesso, Giltwood, Mercury Glass
French 19th Century Gilt Mirror
Located in palm beach, FL
Superb gilded mirror of exceptional quality, without any lack or alteration, mercury mirror, very
Category
Antique 1880s French Restauration Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Gilt Mirror Medaillon Napoleon III
Located in palm beach, FL
ribbon on the corners. Around the oval mercury mirror, friezes richly garnished with garlands of flowers.
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Antique Neoclassical Carved and Gilt Mirror
Located in Bridgeport, CT
twist surround and oval rosettes on the side mirror panels. The gilt in a nice mellow patina.
H. 39
Category
Antique 19th Century Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
19th Century Gilt Mirror
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very fine quality mercury gilded portrait frame now converted to a mirror. Beautiful antique
Category
Antique 19th Century American Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Napoleon III Giltwood Wall Mirror with Mercury Glass
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A fine rectangular Napoleon III full length mirror, in gilded wood and moulded plaster, which can
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
No Reserve
H 50.01 in W 30.91 in D 4.34 in
19th Century Italian Gilt Mirror
Located in Ross, CA
Italian gilt wood mirror (c. 1880). Ornately carved with camellias, acanthus leaves, and crest of a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Beaux Arts Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
19th Century Green French Arch Top Mercury Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
A beautiful 19th century French arch top mercury plate mirror, gesso over wood, then finished in a
Category
Antique 1840s French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Gesso, Wood
19th Century Louis Philippe Gilt Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Louis Philippe gilt mirror with pearl detail along the inside perimeter. Gilt is
Category
Antique 1860s French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Large Gilt Carved Wood Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Large gilt carved wood mirror. Expansive softly mercuried plate glass mirror bound by foliate
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Antique French Burr Walnut Parcel Gilt Mirror 19th C
Located in London, GB
A beautiful antique French burr walnut and parcel gilt mirror, circa 1880 in date.
The
Category
Antique 1880s French More Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Walnut
Circa 1860 French Carved & Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Napoleon III, c.1860, carved & gilt wood mirror. French. Rococo style with asymmetrical foliage
Category
Antique 1860s Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
George II Walnut and Gilt Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine early Georgian walnut and parcel gilt mirror, the scalloped crest with inset carved gesso
Category
Antique 1720s English George II Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood, Walnut
Early 19th Century Gold French Mercury Plate Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
Early 19th century french mercury plate mirror
Gilt gesso over wood, with an incredible foxed
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
18th c., Italian, Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in Newport Beach, CA
drapery swags. The frame is inset with mercury glass mirror.
Category
Antique 1780s Italian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Mercury Glass
Large Italian Gilt Carved Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Large Italian gilt carved mirror. Mecca gold washed frame with neoclassical style foliate, rope and
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Gilt and Blue Painted Venetian Style Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Gilt and blue painted Venetian style Mirror. Aedicule-form tripartite mirror in gilt carved wood
Category
20th Century European Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror
French 19th Century Painted & Gilt Oval Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A circa 1840 French Louis XVI style gilt carved wood wall mirror crafted in 19th century France
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
Italian Neoclassical Style Mahogany & Gilt Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Italian Neoclassical Style Mahogany Mirror enhanced with gilt lion head and urn finial and flanked
Category
20th Century Unknown Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Louis Philippe Gilt and Ebonized Mirror
Located in Troy, MI
This Louis Philippe style mirror features an elaborate gilt and ebonized frame. Original mercury
Category
Antique 19th Century French Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
19th Century Antique French Gold Gilt Louis Philippe Mirror
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Antique French 19th century Louis Philippe style gold gilt mirror intricately etched with an
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Wood
George II Carved Gesso and Gilt Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good George II carved wood and gilt gesso mirror, the central cartouche flanked by swan neck
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Gilt Bronze Viennese Miniature Cheval Mirror
Located in London, GB
Beautiful antique ormolu/gilt bronze 19th century Viennese miniature mirror. Set on curved legs the
Category
Antique 1880s Austrian Table Mirrors
Materials
Bronze
George II Walnut and Parcel Gilt Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine George II walnut and parcel gilt mirror, the phoenix bird finial surmounted by acanthus
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English George II Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Walnut, Giltwood
French 19th Century Gold Gilt Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
is visible within the mercury mirror plate, adding to its unique charm. The original gilt finish of
Category
Antique 19th Century French Other Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Very Fine Louis XV Period Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine Louis XV period gilt wood mirror, the frame with foliate, fruit and vine carving over
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Mercury Glass
French Art Nouveau Gold Gilt Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A fantastic gold gilt Art Nouveau mirror with the original beveled mirror plate. The gilt is in
Category
20th Century French Art Nouveau Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
18th Century Louis XIII Style Gilt Copper Mirror
Located in Ross, CA
Louis XIII style gilt-copper and wood mirror, featuring an elevated rectangular mercury glass plate
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Wall Mirrors
Materials
Copper
Diminutive Antique French 19th Century Gilt Mirror
Located in London, GB
Diminutive Antique French 19th century Gilt Mirror.
Of small proportions, the bevelled plate
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Wall Mirrors
Materials
Brass
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
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Wall Mirrors
Materials
Silver Leaf
George III Gilt Wall Mirror
Located in London, GB
A fine gilt gesso George III wall mirror with delicate carving. The intricate frame has fine
Category
Antique 1770s English George III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Circular Regency Gold Gilt Wood Tailors Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
A stunning and very rare gilt gesso over wood circular tailors mirror, with superb foxed mercury
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Wall Mirrors
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Louis XVI Green and Gilt Carved Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI green and gilt carved mirror. Finely carved Italian gilt-wood frame in original condition
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Scagliola, Wood
18th Century Silver Gilt Mirror
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Wonderful 18th century silver gilt mirror.
With decorative carved detailing and an original
Category
Antique 18th Century French Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Rococo Gold Gilt Wood Marriage Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
Beautiful marriage mirror, in the Rococo style, dating to the late 18th century, all original
Category
Antique 1790s French Rococo Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Antique Venetian Gilt Octagonal Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Antique Venetian gilt octagonal mirror. Gilt carved and gessoed octagonal framed mirror with later
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Near Pair of Antique Italian Mercury Gilded Mirrors with Beveled Fan
Located in Dallas, TX
A near pair of elegant antique Italian mercury gilt beveled mirrors. Finely detailed ventilated
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Italian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Georgian Period Walnut and Parcel Gilt Dressing Mirror
Located in Free Union, VA
plate. Ca. 1760-1780. Original mercury glass speckled mirror plate. Good antique condition, with typical
Category
Antique 18th Century Table Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Walnut, Giltwood
19th Century French Louis Philippe Blackened and Gilt Engraved Wall Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
mercury glass and wood backing. The mirror is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use, and
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century French Louis XVI Carved Painted and Gilt Wall Trumeau Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
in excellent condition with a rich patinated painted finish with gilt accents and the mirror has the
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Trumeau Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood, Canvas
19th Century French Louis Philippe Two-Tone Gilt and Blackened Wall Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a powder room or a bedroom with this elegant antique blackened and gilt wall mirror
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
H 42.5 in W 30 in D 1.75 in
French Faded Pale Gilt Pier Mirror
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
French faded pale gilt Pier mirror
The mirror has a very elaborate large pierced top decoration
Category
Antique 19th Century French Provincial Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
French 19th Century Silver & Gold Gilt Oval Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A regal gold and silver gilt mirror with intricate, carved details at the top and bottom. A
Category
Antique 19th Century French Other Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Wood
18th Century French Carved and Parcel Gilt Trumeau Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
Fabulous 18th century French carved and parcel gilt Trumeau mirror. Featuring a beautiful carvings
Category
Antique 18th Century French Trumeau Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Early 19th Century French Reeded Frame Gilt Wall Mirror
Located in Seaford, GB
A lovely French Reeded frame gilt wall mirror. Dating to the early 19th Century and having its
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Fine Late 18th Century Silver Gilt Pier Glass Mirror
Located in London, GB
England, circa 1780
A fine late eighteenth century silver gilt pier mirror with mercury glass
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Queen Anne Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Large Monumental gold leaf gilt French ornamented Louis Philippe Mirror
Located in Casteren, NL
immense length of 106 inches and is adorned with its original mercury-gilded mirror glass. The mirror
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
H 106.3 in W 49.61 in D 9.85 in
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With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the gilt mercury mirror you’re looking for. Each gilt mercury mirror for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using glass, mercury glass and wood. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect gilt mercury mirror — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A gilt mercury mirror is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Louis XVI, Louis XV and Georgian styles are sought with frequency. Rimadesio and Stephen Cavallo each produced at least one beautiful gilt mercury mirror that is worth considering.
How Much is a Gilt Mercury Mirror?
Prices for a gilt mercury mirror start at $141 and top out at $82,107 with the average selling for $3,450.
Finding the Right Mirrors for You
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.
Questions About Gilt Mercury Mirror
- What is a mercury mirror?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A mercury mirror is a type of wall mirror that features mercury glass inside of a decorative frame. Mercury glass is the term for two panes of glass separated by silvering material. Early examples feature real mercury, while ones produced after the 1840s usually substitute silver nitrate. On 1stDibs, shop a range of mercury mirrors.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Mercury mirrors were made with a thicker glass layer than modern mirrors, so one way of identifying a mercury mirror is to test the thickness. Take an object like a pen or toothpick and press it against the mirror. If the object looks like it’s touching its own reflection, then the mirror is thin and not a mercury mirror. However, if the object appears separate from its reflection, the thickness indicates that it’s probably a mercury mirror. Shop a collection of antique mercury mirrors from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- Why was mercury used in mirrors?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Mercury was used in mirrors in the form of mercury amalgam. This substance was used because of its highly reflective property when applied on a surface. Shop an array of antique mercury mirrors from top sellers around the world on 1stDibs.
- What is a gold gilt mirror?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A gold gilt mirror has gold decorative details along the frame. Gilt mirrors often have a thin layer of gold leaf around the edges to create an attractive gold finish. Shop a collection of gold gilt mirrors on 1stDibs.
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