18th Century and Earlier Mirrors

A Swedish 18th Century Gustavian gilt wall mirror with the classic festoons decorations, an urn on the top and a shield framed by another festoon on the bottom section. The patina of...

A Charming And Good Quality 18th Century English Chippendale Period, George III Period, Rectangular Giltwood Wall Mirror, Having Superbly Carved Rococo Design Frame, Featuring Elegan...

A C R O T E R I O N is pleased to offer this fine and rare circa 1800 English late George III period convex mirror in 'proto-regency' style, the carved moulded and beaded edge circul...

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 ...

A large, antique French pair of wall mirrors made of hand caved gilded wood with facet and its original mirror glass, in good condition. Each frame of the rectangular mirror is featu...

A superb 18th century Chinese Chippendale carved giltwood mirror of exceptional detail. The pierced foliate frame with climbing roses on architectural column elements of pagoda form,...

A Mid 18th Century Irish Giltwood Wall Mirror with original mercury mirror plate. The mirror is adorned by an imposing Eagle crest, looking down over the mirror. The Eagle is flanke...

18th C. Chippendale Mahogany Mirror, American, English Style Wall Mirror. Original Glass Gorgeous antique solid Mahogany American Chippendale...

This is a large impressive antique French Louis XIV carved giltwood and gesso wall mirror, Circa 1760 in date. The frame is surmounted with an elaborate carved and pierced giltwood ...

A truly exceptional and rare late 18th century French Louis XVI period parclose, or cushion mirror, in an elaborate, richly carved giltwood frame. This rectangular mirror is embellis...

Elegant and refined pair of carved and gilded wood mirrors with mercury mirrors. Ligurian manufacture, Italy, ca. 1770.

This exceptionally carved Baroque period Italian mirrored mercury glass giltwood wall hanging / mantel mirror captures the reason why we love Eur...

A lovely and very old antique mirror with applied gilding and polychrome throughout, in the Renaissance style, from the 18th and possibly the 17th century. Most probably Italian but ...

A fine English Chippendale-period carved giltwood mirror. Mid-18th century, circa 1760. The design dates from the height of the eighteenth-century rococo fashion in England. The fra...

Nice mid to late 18th Century Chippendale mirror in a refinished surface. Appears to be the original frosted looking glass. Cross band...

COD-S255 Pair of very refined and elegant carved and gilded wooden mirrors with antique mercury mirrors in perfect condition. Tuscan manufacture, ca. 1730-1750.

Fine George III carved and giltwood rectangular border glass mirror, the frame with gadrooned outer edge and bead carved inner border all in well burnished water gilding, retaining o...

Wonderful 17th Century Italian ebonised Guilloché mirror with carved ripple moulding. Luigi XIV, Piedmont. The rectangular plate within a cushion frame of convex and carved ripple m...

Louis XV Gilt Oval Mirror. Small transitional Louis XV oval wood and gesso carved frame in white washed and gilt finish with inset beading, corner rosettes and further swagging with ...

A Georgian pier mirror in walnut and Giltwood. The broken pediment top with scrolls and rosettes, gilt outer border with Kit Kat inner frame and bevelled glass. An old repair along t...

From Italy Rome, a unique Louis XIV Pair of 1700s Italian Giled Terracotta Frames, they are almost a pair of similar form and age but with slight differences. The two lovely small oval frames were probably made for framing oval miniatures, they are empty now, come from a private Italian collection and can be used as mirrors. They are in good condition consistent with age, they are older than 300 years, with old restorations and minor losses in a few curls and small felures. See, closed-up picture details. It is more common to find these kinds of antique small frames...

Charming small Louis XVI / Directoire period mirror, featuring a carved and gray-painted wooden frame, enhanced with gilt highlights highlighting the ornaments. The frame is punctuat...

This exceptional and rare 18th century giltwood mirror is distinguished by its finely carved decoration and the presence of original parecloses—the smaller mirrored panels that frame...

18th century Queen Anne walnut mirror with stand. The frame is wonderfully shaped and beveled in the Queen Anne style and surrounds a beve...

This 18th century Louis XVI baguette frame giltwood mirror is full of vintage character, and features a slim but beautifully carved frame embellished with bands of carved decoration ...

Amazing 17th/ 18th century hand carved silverleaf mirror. On the sides of the mirror you can see two angel heads on baroque curls and claw feet. Italy, circa 1650-1750, weathered, s...

Baroque Style, Flemish Ripple Wall Mirror, Carved Walnut, Mirror, Belgium, 18th c. A good example of an 18th century Dutch carved walnut wall mirror. This example presents with flam...

A fine, large, and stunning trumeau dating back to the Louis XV period in France. Typical of the period, the trumeau has tastefully carved Rococo accents which house the double stack...

An 18th Century Swedish Gustavian mirror gilded with original glass. Richly hand carved antique wall mirror in the Gustavian style with medallion in good condition, enhanced by detai...

An elegant Italian carved giltwood mirror dating from the second half of the 18th century. The frame is finely sculpted with classical motifs, featuring a richly detailed crest compo...

This magnificent wall mirror embodies the opulence and elegance often associated with Florentine or central Italian manufactures. This is an attention-grabbing piece, ideal for addin...

A French Giltwood Over Mantle Mirror, 18th Century Description: The large rectangular mirror surmounted by a central scrolling acanthus corona, descending to scrolling yoke flanked ...

Classic Gustavian or Louis Seize carved giltwood wall mirror. Features an oval mirror with pearl beading on the interior perimeter, exterior frame decorated with a bow-tied ribbon on...

Typical form with rounded top corners. Water gilded with subtle incised trailing leaves.

This is a magnificent gilded, sculpted and carved wall mirrors. This elegant wall mirrors hails from the Early 18th Century, from Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. The mirror showcases exquisit...

An extraordinary example of an English Chippendale looking glass. The rectangular plate with conforming foliate surround and frame lie beneat...

French Regence painted and carved giltwood mirror circa 1780 with elaborately scrolled and foliate carved crest over a beveled plate glass.

Rare George I carved and gilt gesso mirror with original beveled border glasses, the shell carved crest over swan neck pediment above foliate and strapwork carving, The base with ges...

Fine George I giltwood looking glass, the eagle and foliate carved crest with punched ground surrounding an arched and shaped hollow beveled plate wi...

A gold, antique Swedish Gustavian pair of wall mirrors made of hand crafted gilded wood with its original mirrored glass, in good condition. The Scandinavian wall décor...

Pair of 18th Century Louis XV mirrors featuring ornately carved wooden frames adorned with ram's head motifs, floral garlands and acanthus leaves.

An exquisite 18th century Venetian mirror from the Baroque period with beautifully aged, original giltwood and mercury plates, circa 1740. Standing on two scrolled feet with finely c...

18th Century Gustavian oval mirror. With carved bow details to the top and bottom.

This unusual table-top 'Psyche' table mirror dates from the 18th century, its wooden frame beautifully crafted from yellow-lacquered wood and decorated with hand-painted chinoiserie ...

Mirror made from fragments of a Baroque altarpiece, 18th century – Spain One of a kind and a Exceptional mirror made from fragments of a Baroque altarpiece. It is a quadrangular mir...

Beautiful carved giltwood Baroque mirror, with its original foxed mirror glass. Italy, circa 1750. Weathered and minor losses.

Antique Tibetan Tantric Ritual Mirror in Copper and Bronze, 18th/19th Century or Earlier An extraordinary and highly refined Tibetan Tantric ritual mirror, dating to the 18th/19th c...

French Louis XVI '18th Century' carved gilt wall mirror with shell pediment and filigree detail in corners.  

A fine, large, and stunning trumeau dating to the Louis XV period in France. Typical of the period, the trumeau has tastefully carved Rococo accents which house the double-stacked me...

George III carved and giltwood rectangular mirror, the scrolled foliate crest over rocaille and scroll carved body, the sides flanked by hanging garlands of fruit and flowers, the wh...

Very fine George II walnut and parcel gilt mirror, the phoenix bird finial surmounted by acanthus carved swan neck pediment, the folia...

George II giltwood mirror having well-carved gilt scroll and rocaille frame with elaborate entwined pierce-decorated crest and conforming carved bottom cartouche. The whole of pleasi...

An exceptional carved and parcel gilt painted trumeau mirror, 18th century, France. The antique mirror features a dainty carved and gilt Chinoiserie-inspired foliate appliqué in the ...

French 18th Century painted trumeau mirror with floral basket painting over the mirror and gilded accents. Gorgeous original details. Add some French style to your home or design pro...

A Rare and Unusual Pair of 18th Century Spanish Colonial 'Enconchado' Mirrors Veneered in Tortoiseshell and Inlaid With Bone and Mother of Pearl Made in Lima (Peru) or Mexico Circa 1720 Provenance One of the mirrors with a fragmentary label printed with "Bodmer", possibly relating to one of the branches of the Bodmer family in Switzerland, some of whom were renowned collectors of South American art The mirrors of rectangular form with ripple moulded outer borders framing tortoishell veneered inner borders inlaid with fine bone stringing and sinuous floral motifs inlaid in mother of pearl. The sight edges also veneered and inlaid with a repeating geometric motif. The mirrors are notable for the fine quality of the inlay, their unusually large size for this date, in particular the size of the plates themselves (possibly original) and the fact that they are a pair. The term 'Enconchado' comes from Spanish colonial art, particularly associated with Mexico, comprising of oil paintings inlaid with mother of pearl and other iridescent minerals. This form of art is discussed in great detail by Miguel Arisa in his essay Luminosity in Mexican Enconchado Paintings and Conceptions of the Sacred in Visual Culture and Indigenous Agency in the Early Americas, The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume: 10 Chapter 4 (October 2021). He argues that the development of this style was an attempt to combine pre-Hispanic indigenous South American traditions regarding the sacred properties of "shiny objects" and "Baroque concepts of the miraculous", the sparkling inlay adding to the power of the European religious imagery. Mirrors such as the present pair are likewise cross-cultural objects, fusing European form and aesthetic concerns with indigenous craftsmanship to create objects of great prestige and decorative appeal. The ripple mouldings are clearly the result of a 17th century Dutch...

Exquisite Italian wall mirror made in hand carved wood with gilded parts and floral motifs still wearing the original glass. There was some restorations in order all parts to be well fixed but it still wears the original painting. Extremely beautiful shape in quite good condition having in mind how old...

Large palace mirror, 1750 - 1770. The gilding was restored in the 19th century.

An exceptional Northern Italian Baroque intricately carved ebonized frame, inset with old mercury glass. The frame with cove carved 'ripple' molding and its original forged iron hook...

An Italian mirror with a tall rectangular glass framed by elaborate carved scrollwork and vine decoration. Grapes and leaves run through the frame with pierced sections and curved si...

With original wonderful surface gilding. The crest with urn of flowers and trailing arabesques over an original distressed mirror plate that we will replace if requested. The frame w...