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Girandoles For Sale
Style: Louis XV
Style: Regency
19th Century Ornate Gilt Oval Girandole Mirror
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century ornate gilt oval girandole mirror with elaborate grape vine and ribbon detailing. Circa 1820.
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19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

Regency Giltwood Convex Girandole Mirror
Located in Savannah, GA
A Regency giltwood convex girandole mirror. The 13 inch convex plate with ebonized reeded surround is mounted in a concave frame with beaded and rope edges and ball spacers. The ...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Giltwood

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood Carved Sconce Mirror and Candelabra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine French 19th Century Louis XVI Style giltwood and gesso carved sconce mirror (Wall-Light) girandole with candelabra. The scrolled carved mirror frame surmounted with a pair of ...
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19th Century Louis XV Antique Girandoles

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Gesso, Mirror, Giltwood

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood Carved Sconce Mirror and Candelabra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine French 19th/20th century Louis XVI style belle epoque gildwood carved sconce mirror (wall-light) Girandle. The elongated carved body decorated with giltwood carved wreaths...
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Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Girandoles

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Gesso, Giltwood, Mirror

19th Century English Regency Carved Giltwood Convex Mirror
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine Regency period carved giltwood and Gesso convex mirror, the plate within a reeded ebonized slip with ball decoration surmounted by an Eagle pediment. It has sconces to ei...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Giltwood

Louis XV Style Brass and Bronze Three-Arm Mirrored Girandole Wall Sconce
Located in Barntrup, DE
Beautiful Louis XV style brass and bronze girandole, wall sconce with beveled mirror. Three arms, each with a socket for an E14 light bulb, ornate with foliate scrolls and flowers, F...
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1920s French Louis XV Vintage Girandoles

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Brass, Bronze

Large Single Italian Giltwood Mirror Candle Sconce
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Elaborate carved giltwood and metal mirrored sconce. The all giltwood back with Centro round mirror with front girangole candleholder that is removable. Made in Italy, circa 1950. Th...
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1940s Italian Louis XV Vintage Girandoles

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Mirror, Giltwood

Louis XV Giltwood Mirrored Girandoles
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Girandoles

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

19th Century English Regency Convex Girandole Mirror with Eagle and Dolphin
Located in Charleston, SC
This magnificent English Regency giltwood convex girandole mirror, circa 1800, featuring displayed eagle with hanging tassels, opposing dolphins and six candle arms with gilt foliage...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

Materials

Giltwood, Mercury Glass

Eagle Girandole Mirror in the Regency manner
By Thomas Hope
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A carved giltwood girandole of early Regency design. The convex mirror plate is within a moulded frame decorated with gilt balls and has a carved eagle crest supported on a tapered b...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Regency Girandoles

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Gold Leaf

19th Century English Regency Convex Looking Glass with Girandole Arms
Located in Charleston, SC
Fabulous 19th century English Regency convex looking glass with girandole arms. This amazing girandole mirror has the British Royal Crown on the pediment and a tudor rose on the pend...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Gold Leaf

Pair of Louis XV Style Carved and Giltwood Girandole Mirrors
Located in Montreal, QC
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.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Girandoles

Materials

Wood, Mirror

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Two pairs of large French modern neoclassical double arm metal wall lights with mirrored backs. The metal frame is pierced and the mirror has been mercuried. Priced and sold by the...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Girandoles

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George III Style Giltwood Girandole Mirror
Located in Essex, MA
In the style of Robert Adam. Urn form finial with leaf tip swags and scrolls over an oval beveled mirror and a pair of candle arms flanked by leaves and seed pods terminating on urns...
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Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Girandoles

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20th Century American Regency Girandoles

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19th century English Regency Gilded Wood Convex Bull's-Eye Mirror
Located in Savannah, GA
English Regency giltwood convex mirror, circa 1810. Featuring elaborate carving at top and bottom of acanthus leaves and scrolls, with two single graceful girandole. Bull's-eye mirro...
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Early 19th Century English Régence Antique Girandoles

Materials

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Early 19th Century Monumental Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror
Located in London, by appointment only
A truly fabulous, important, rare and grand proportioned Regency giltwood convex mirror. The substantial frame carved with overlapping laurel leaves and berries, supporting to boldly carved acanthus candelabra with original cut-glass drip pans and gilt bronze nozzles. The gilding has aged to a deep rich colour. This fabulous and incredibly grand masterpiece retains its original convex mirror plate. One of the finest period convex mirrors ever made. The creation of convex mirrors became possible with the development of glass blowing. When the glassblower created a small glass bulb, they were filled with a metallic mixture of lead and tin while still hot. Once cooled, the bulbs were cut into smaller pieces and could be used as hand an pocket mirrors. They were used as fashionable pieces of jewelry and were often encased with gold, silver, ivory and tortoiseshell. The Empire circular convex mirror was introduced from France, where they had been made as early as 1756. This style of mirror became so popular under the heading ‘Mirrors’, in Sheraton’s 'Cabinet Dictionary' (1803), that they are the only style mentioned. Convex mirrors were said to “strengthen the colour and take off the coarseness of objects by contracting them”. Convex mirrors produced on a larger scale were both practical and intriguing. While they distort the image that they reflect, they also magnify light...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Ormolu

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Located in Savannah, GA
Pair of rectangular Aesthetic Movement brass two candle sconces with embossed morning glory and butterfly motif. Frames lined in 2" claret colored velvet border. Beveled mirrors meas...
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1860s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Girandoles

Materials

Brass

Pair Of Italian Red Painted Girandole Mirrors
Located in Essex, MA
Carved cartouche shaped frames with mirror plate and two arm attached candle sconce.
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Mid-19th Century European Rococo Revival Antique Girandoles

Materials

Bronze

Antique Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror
Located in Bishop's Stortford, GB
A beautiful Antique Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror in its original condition. Dating back to mid 19th Century. Foliate display around the frame and beaded edging each side with triple s...
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Mid-19th Century British Rococo Antique Girandoles

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Gesso, Giltwood

Antique Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror
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H 42.52 in W 21.66 in D 9.85 in
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Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A fine Regency Period Giltwood Circular Convex Mirror, Surmounted With Attractive Stylised Dolphin Set Upon Rocks And Foliage To Top, Above Moulded Giltwood Concave Frame With Gilt B...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror
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H 33 in W 21 in D 7 in
19th Century English Regency Convex Girandole Mirror with Eagle and Dolphin
Located in Charleston, SC
This magnificent English Regency giltwood convex girandole mirror, circa 1800, featuring displayed eagle with hanging tassels, opposing dolphins and six candle arms with gilt foliage...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Giltwood, Mercury Glass

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Two Arm Ormolu Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. two arm ormolu sconces. Each sconce is centered by a fine foliate bottom finial below richly scrolled acanthus leaves and a stri...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Girandoles

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Ormolu

Previously Available Items
A Large Regency Convex Gilt Girandole Wall Mirror
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A Large Regency Convex Gilt Girandole Wall Mirror This Stunning Mirror has a deep gilt frame decorated with spheres and is finely reeded up to the convex glass, on either side it has a twisted candle...
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Early 1800s Regency Antique Girandoles

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Giltwood

Regency Convex Mirror by Thomas Fentham
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine Regency period gilt and ebonized convex mirror by Thomas Fentham, London, having carved hippocampus with two gilt balls flanked by pair of dolphins...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Brass

Regency Giltwood Girandole Convex Mirror
Located in Essex, MA
With carved eagle holding two balls on a chain over a convex glass mirror with ebonized outer band, the conforming frame with spherules, mounted candle arms and base leaf carved deco...
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1810s English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Pine, Giltwood

Early 19th Century Regency Giltwood Convex Dolphin Mirror
Located in Essex, MA
Period English Regency giltwood convex girandole mirror. Dolphin top. Original candle arms. Original gilding. Original Mirror --Provenance: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Loan Exhib...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Regency Oval Giltwood Mirror
Located in Essex, MA
Unusual form with newly water gilded frame and replaced glass. A period frame with spherules and molded fasces outer band.
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1810s English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Regency Oval Giltwood Mirror
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Large Scale English Late 18th-Early 19th Century Convex Mirror with Sea Horse
Located in Charleston, SC
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19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Gold Leaf

19th Century Petite Regency Carved Giltwood Convex Girandole Mirror
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A small Regency carved giltwood convex girandole mirror The typical circular mirror with an ebonized slip and ball encrusted frame surmounted by a twin-handled urn with trailing h...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Glass, Softwood

English Regency Gilt Carved Wood Girandole Mirror
Located in Charleston, SC
This Regal early 19th century British Convex mirror is craved gilt carved wood with Girandole candle arms.
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Mirror, Giltwood

Pair of 19th Century Regency Convex Mirror Girandoles with Hippocampus
Located in Essex, MA
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Girandoles

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Located in New Haven, CT
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H 43 in W 25 in D 4 in

Antique and Vintage Girandoles

A girandole is a specific type of lighting fixture with at least two candleholders, frequently held aloft on ornate branches. While antique and vintage girandoles are popular in contemporary homes, these fixtures emerged in lighting design in the latter half of the 17th century, with the French name having derived from the Italian girandola.

Girandoles became popular additions to luxurious interiors in the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe, particularly in England and France. They were typically affixed to walls in pairs and made from a variety of materials, including gilded bronze and hardwoods.

Artists created girandoles inspired by eclectic sources such as ruined buildings, Greek columns, waterfalls, animals and more. This gave them a sense of movement and nostalgia. Some girandoles were made as both a candleholder and a mirror to reflect light into a room. Many of these mirrors are convex to further enhance the illumination though others are flat.

There are all kinds of lighting to enhance your home. On 1stDibs, find a modern, sophisticated girandole that updates this heritage and pairs well with any furniture style, or find an antique example that brings the beauty of the past into your space.

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