Pair of 19th Century Gilt Rococo Mirrors

19th Century gilt wall mirror in the Rococo style with finely carved detail throughout. The oval glass plate sits within a gilt frame of elaborately scrolling foliage, feathers and a...

19th century French Rococo gilt wall mirror This is a beautifully Decorative Rococo gold frame mirror it is a very pretty shape with heavy ...

A Pair of English Rococo Style Mirrors Carved from wood and gilded, the almond-shaped mercury silvered plates surrounded in a Rococo asymmetrical frame cared with scrolls, acanthus ...

Original Gilt Rococo period. The frame is hand-carved wood with the flowing, asymmetrical curves, scrolls motifs intertwine typical of the style. The frame is gold leaf gilded and a...

Mid-19th Century gilt-wood French Rococo mirror. Hand-carved gesso-enhanced pine frame with crest and curled relief features around the original one-inch hand-beveled mirror.

Pair of 19th century oval-shaped mirrors with ornate, gilded frames. The frames are designed in a Rococo style, featuring intricate carvings and embellishments. Each mirror has a h...

Large Early 19th century square gilt Rococo wall mirror The mirror has a wide a elaborate carved Giltwood Rococo Frame, it is almost square in shape with a 7” wide decorative fram...

Gold gilt and painted hand carved mirror from France. This mirror features beautiful Rococo floral motifs. Certainly a versatile piece that can be used in any formal or informal dini...

Monumental 19th century Italian parcel and water gilt mirror with beautifully ornately carved birds, fruit, foliage and faces. Measures: 91" H x 60" W.

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...