French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood Carved Sconce Mirror and Candelabra

An important and palatial pair of French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood carved six-light wall lights "Appliques" (Sconces), the six scrolled candle-arms emanating from a center...

A fine and large French 19th century Louis XVI style giltwood and gesso carved oval mirror frame with a beveled glass plate. All gilding original. T...

A fine French 19th century Louis XVI style green painted and parcel-gilt wood carved trumeau mirror frame. The elongated frame surmounted with giltwood carved wreaths, leaves, urns, ...

An Ornate French 19th-20th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Gesso Carved Mirror.The rectangular shaped frame crowned with a floral urn flanked by acanthus, scrolls and leaves, th...

This incredibly rare pair of Louis XV-period giltwood mirrored girandoles capture the grandeur, grace and opulence of the Rococo movement in the decorative arts. Each opulent mirror is exquisitely framed with voluminous flourishes of naturalistic motifs exemplary of the Louis XV era’s organic, deliberately asymmetrical stylings. Holding four candles each, these outstanding mirrored girandoles would have decoratively flanked a room of the period elegantly, illuminating the giltwood lustrously and providing ambient light reflected in the mirrored glass. Mirrors have long played an integral role in decorative design, often serving as focal points of a room. Dating back to the 13th century, the first French looking glasses were very small, yet enormously precious. Because these early mirrors...

Pair of French Rococo style girandoles, late 19th century, in fine silver-gilt, elegantly decorated with figural and scrolls, two candlestick-arms.

Pair of Louis XV style carved and giltwood oval girandoles, the shell and scroll crest above beaded and gadrooned oval frame and terminating in triple scrolled candle arms.

A very good quality pair of 19th Century carved gilt wood Girondoles, each with Classical Chinese Chippendale style scrolling foliated pagoda decoration.