Large Classical Revival Mirror with Ornate Frame, circa 1920
Located in Portland, OR
Our collection of antique mirrors features pieces from before the Civil War through the mid-20th century, with every style and historic period in between represented. Here you’ll fin...
Antique French Gilt Louis Philippe Mirror with Ornate Cartouche and Floral Frame
Located in Houston, TX
This stunning, bright gold gilt mirror features an ornate cartouche and floral details in the frame.
Mirror, Plaster, Wood
Sold|$1,100
Ornate Gold and Red Painted Tinted Mirror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful wall mirror with ornate carved gilded frame. Glass is slightly tinted for a dramatic effect.
Sold|$1,000
C. 1920 Ornate Mirror with 12 Sections
Located in Los Angeles, CA
C. 1920 ornate framed mirror with 12 sections. The detail on the frame is gorgeous with tons of detail and muted color on a dark green base.
Paint, Mirror
Sold
Mirror
Located in New Orleans, LA
Oval beveled mirror with gilded ornate frame.
Mirror
Sold|$6,800
Baroque Style Painted Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Ornate polychrome and gilt framed mirror
Sold|$3,200
1920s Very Large Gilded Mirror
Located in Pasadena, CA
Large scale mirror with ornate gilded frame of flowering roses, shells, and other decorative elements.
Wood
Sold|$1,500
Large Vintage Sunburst Mirror, circa 1970
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Mirror is in excellent vintage condition and gold frame is beautifully detailed and ornate.
Glass
19th Century Chippendale Design Antique Mirror.
Located in Lancashire, GB
19th Century Chippendale Design Antique Mirror. An ornate antique carved pine framed mirror in the Chippendale style dating from around 1880.
Sold|$1,701
Victorian Oval Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror
Located in Worcester, Worcestershire
One or two sections of minor damage to gesso and blooming to mirror. Later gold gilt finish. Offered for sale; a fine period Victorian oval gesso framed mirror.
Antique French Hand Carved Gilt Louis Philippe Mirror with Ribbon & Leaf Detail
Located in Houston, TX
This late 19th century Louis Philippe mirror has an ornately carved frame featuring a ribbon and leaf detail, along with a beaded detail that seems to be suspended between the spiral...
Mirror, Plaster, Wood
An Antique Chippendale Style Over Mantel Mirror
Located in London, GB
A mid nineteenth century Chippendale revival rococo carved giltwood overmantel mirror. The ornate frame composed of C scrolls, dripping rocaille and with bull rushes to either side.
Sold|$1,646
French Napoleon III Mirror Gilded
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French Napoléon III mirror, ornate frame design with shells, flowers and leafs and acanthus moldings, original mirror and gold leaf, nice flowers and leafs graving around with burnis...
Gesso, Wood
Sold|$4,200
19th Century Gilded Oval Mirror
Located in Oakville, ON
Amazing 19th century ornate gilded oval mirror. The oval frame is gilded over wood and all the hand-carved elements are in wood and plaster.
Plaster, Wood
Small Ornate Gilt Frame Convex Mirror
Located in San Francisco, CA
A small convex mirror in an orantely formed and gilded composition frame. Would be charming in a group with pictures.
Sold|$7,500
Stunning Large Antique Mirror with Planter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spectacular antique mirror with ornate frame and old planter base in chipping and weathered gilt and brown umber paint.
Sold|$1,450
chinois mirror with gilt frame
Located in New York, NY
chinois mirror with ornate gilt frame
Sold|$1,200
C. 1900 Wood Carved Watergilt Mirror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
C. 1900 ornately carved wood framed mirror. Finished with watergilt, and it has a beveled mirror.
Wood, Mirror
Ornate Antique Italian Rococo Gilt Frame Mirror with Open Carvings
Located in Houston, TX
This ornate antique Italian Rococo mirror has very detailed open carvings made of carved plaster and wood. The carvings include Classic Rococo themes: floral details, scroll work and...
Mirror, Wood, Plaster
Sold|$525
Ornate Small Mirror
Located in Seattle, WA
Ornate distressed gold framed mirror with original glass.
Vintage Fabulous Orleans Tole Verdigris Finish Ornate Wire Frame Mirror
Located in Southampton, NY
Perfectly suitable for indoor or outdoor use. Ornate wire frame composition. Circa 1980's
Sold|$1,000
Ornate French Wall Mirror
Located in Paradise Point, Queensland
Antique French ornate carved wood gilt framed mirror, circa 1920, 141 x 90cm.
Sold|$1,695
French Carved Wooden Accent Wall Mirrors
Located in Cookeville, TN
This is a fabulous pair of carved wooden accent wall mirrors. These mirrors feature ornate wooden frame with carved scrolls, angelic figures, and a lion head.
Mirror, Wood, Paint
Pair of French Empire-style Gold Plated Bronze Wall Mirrors
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This pair of 19th century French Empire-style wall mirrors feature ornate bronze frames. The frames have recently been gold-plated and feature a Roman goddess motif atop a swirled, i...
Gold Plate, Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Style Gold Gilt Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
Outstanding mirror with oval mirror suspended in ornate rectangular frame.
Gold
Fine Pair of Hand-Carved Gilt Louis XV Style Mirrors
Located in Worcester, Worcestershire
Stunning pair of French style 7 1/2 ft tall mirrors. Finely carved ornate frame set with heavy bevel edged glass.
Giltwood
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.
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.