Italian Rococo Florentine Style ‘19th Century’ Giltwood Wall Mirror

Italian Rococo style giltwood wall mirror with oval plate within a scrolling surround (19th century).  

Italian Rococo (Florentine, 19th Century) giltwood wall mirror with extensive foliate carved filigree frame with a shell form pediment top.

Pair of Italian Rococo style giltwood wall mirrors with rectangular plate within a scrolling acanthus surround (poss. Florence, 19th century).  

Italian Rococo-style (20th Century) oval-shaped gilt wall mirror with a leaf carved form double frame with a centered beveled mirror and a scroll pediment top.

Italian Rococo (Florence, mid-18th Century) giltwood wall mirror with a carved scroll and floral motif and an Apollo mask crest pediment.

Spanish Rococo-style (19th Century) giltwood wall mirror with rectangular plate surrounded by carved scrolling acanthus leaves.

19th century Rococo style giltwood wall mirror The 3” wide deeply carved Gilt frame has a rococo leaf and swag decoration all the way around the rectangular frame The mirror fram...

A large scale Rococo style elaborately carved gilt wood mirror. Aged mirror has some ghosting and spotting. The photos do not show well (it is not even close to to being this cloudy)...

This is an exquisite 19th century Italian Rococo style wall mirror, the mirror plate surrounded by a medley of decorative features emanating from a dramatic lunging central architect...

A palatial and museum quality Italian 19th century Florentine Rococo giltwood carved mirror frame. The ornately carved frame with scrolls and acan...

An amazing hand-carved gilt wood Rococo style mirror decorated with foliate scroll details all around the frame. Made in Italy, 19th Century. Dimensions: 49"H x 38.5"W x 2.5"D

This is a superb pair of antique Italian Florentine giltwood mirrors, circa 1870 in date. The oval mirrors plates are set within a Rococo boldly-carved scrolling acanthus frame, and they retain the original gilding. Florentine style refers to the art and architecture coming out of Florence, Italy during the Renaissance period. Florentine furniture is characterized by the heavy use of gold gilding on wood and very elaborate hand carved decoration. This impressive pair is certain to make a charming addition to that one special room in your home. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: height 102 x width 63 x depth 4 Dimensions in inches: height 3 foot, 4 inches x width 2 feet, 1 inch x depth 2 inches Rococo Although Rococo is usually thought of as developing first in the decorative arts and interior design, its origins lie in the late Baroque architectural work of Borromini (1599–1667) mostly in Rome and Guarini (1624–1683) mostly in Northern Italy but also in Vienna, Prague, Lisbon, and Paris. Italian architects of the late Baroque/early Rococo were wooed to Catholic (Southern) Germany, Bohemia and Austria by local princes, bishops and prince-bishops. Inspired by their example, regional families of Central European builders went further, creating churches and palaces that took the local German Baroque style to the greatest heights of Rococo elaboration and sensation. An exotic but in some ways more formal type of Rococo appeared in France where Louis XIV's succession brought a change in the court artists and general artistic fashion. By the end of the king's long reign, rich Baroque designs were giving way to lighter elements with more curves and natural patterns. These elements are obvious in the architectural designs of Nicolas Pineau. During the Régence, court life moved away from Versailles...