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Circa 1890 Italian Wood and Gesso Mirror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This great old C. 1890 Italian wood and gesso framed mirror just says patina, old world, chic
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19th Century Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso, Paint, Mirror

Pair of Antique Brazilian Chromolithographs of Palm Trees
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Antique hand colored chromolithographs of Palm Trees in gesso frames with 22k. gilt bevel
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Early 20th Century Brazilian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso

Pair of 19th Century Eglomise Venetian Mirrors
Located in New York, NY
Eglomise Venetian Mirrors. Original Gilt and Gesso Frames
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19th Century Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Pastel Portrait of Twins, Vienna, circa 1894
Located in Lake Forest, IL
Pastel Portrait of Two Sisters, Vienna, Circa 1910 Shaped Gilt Oak and Gesso Frame. Indistinctly
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1890s Austrian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Gouache, Wood

Portrait of A Noblewoman
Located in Middleburg, VA
18th century portrait of a French noblewoman in her original oval gilded/gesso frame.
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

19th Century Marble Effect Mounted Portrait
Located in Salisbury, GB
A 19th century marble paint effect, plaster relief portrait mounted in wood gesso frame.
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Early 20th Century Antique Gesso Frames

pair of french oil on canvas still life painting
Located in New Jersey City, NJ
french oil on canvas on board still life painting with 19th century gilt gesso frame
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Early 20th Century French Antique Gesso Frames

Victorian Oval Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror
Located in Worcester, Worcestershire
gesso framed mirror. Ornate classical design with girandole candleholders to either side. Lovely
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19th Century European Antique Gesso Frames

Regence border glass mirror
Located in New York, NY
Regence border glass mirror with a carved gesso frame within a frame and carved shell corners.
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Gesso Frames

Early 20th Century Oval Bevel Edge Wall Mirror
Located in Altrincham, Cheshire
Early 20th century oval bevel edge wall mirror, the gilt gesso frame decorated with ferns and
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Early 1900s English Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Large 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
The oil on canvas of cows is framed in a gilt and gesso frame. It is signed indistinctly.
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19th Century Unknown Antique Gesso Frames

Rare Early 18th Century Chinoiserie Divisional Mirror
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
This small decorative mirror has a moulded gesso frame with fine divisions. It retains its original
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18th Century and Earlier English Antique Gesso Frames

Regency Bulls Eye Convex Mirror
Located in Port Chester, NY
A turn of the century wood and gesso frame, with a ribbed and ebonized inner band. The gilt finish
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Early 20th Century English Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso

Regency Bulls Eye Convex Mirror
Located in Port Chester, NY
A turn of the century wood and gesso frame, with a ribbed and ebonized inner band. The gilt finish
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Early 20th Century English Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso

Small Giltwood Mirror, French, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
gesso frame with original plate.   
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Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

Pair of Victorian Oil on Canvas Paintings
Located in Salisbury, GB
gesso frames, circa 1880.
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1880s Antique Gesso Frames

Rare Pair of English Regency Girandole Mirrors
Located in Essex, MA
gilt-gesso frame with applied verdigris-painted spherules.
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19th Century English Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood

Large Overmantel Mirror
Located in Llandudno, Conwy
gesso frame over painted and with losses and damages. English, 1870s.
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Wood

BLACK GILT LOUISE PHILIPPE MIRROR
Located in San Francisco, CA
. THE GESSO FRAME CARVED OUT AND HIGHLIGHTED WITH GILDING.
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19th Century French Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Mirror

Rectangular Louis XV Giltwood Border Glass Mirror
Located in Babworth, Retford
The water-gilded carved wood and gesso frame with floral decoration and a central palm crest
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1750s French Louis XV Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

large still life of flowers by Emile Artiges
Located in Sleepy Hollow, NY
listed american artist) dated 1928 in its original gilt gesso frame.
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Early 20th Century American Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Victorian Portrait of Gentleman
Located in Hinsdale, IL
-than-expected foreground, i.e. hands, skin, hair, watch-chain. Old gilt-over-gesso frame
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19th Century English Antique Gesso Frames

Napoleon III gilt gesso mirror
Located in Kensington, MD
French Napoleon III gilt gesso mirror. Rectangular beveled mirror framed by gold leaf filets
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19th Century French Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

19th Century Oil Painting From European School
Located in Gallatin, TN
Wagon Housed in an gold gilded wood and gesso frame Dimensions: Image 12″ X 16.5″; Framed 19.5″ X 23″
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19th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Oil, Board

19th Century Oil On Canvas Portrait Of Captain Lionel Marmaduke Darell
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Guards from adjutancy of the Gloucestershire Royal Hussars, England. In gilt and gesso frame in
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19th Century English Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Very Large and Grand Regency Period Giltwood and Gesso Carved Convex Mirror
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
The giltwood and gesso frame has a wide stiff leaf border decorated with egg and dart carving and a
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19th Century British Regency Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

A Path Through The Trees
Located in Petworth, GB
scale oil on canvas of a tree lined path through a forest, presented in its original gilt and gesso
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1880s European Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Flemish School Oil on Canvas of a Hunting Dog Protecting Game, Dated 1841
Located in London, GB
rabbits, pheasants and ducks. In a carved giltwood and gesso frame. Dated 1841 and signed with the letter
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19th Century Belgian Antique Gesso Frames

Oval Edwardian Period Regency Style Gilt Mirror
Located in Darwen, GB
An oval Edwardian period Regency style gilt mirror. Having a giltwood and gesso frame with
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Early 1900s Edwardian Antique Gesso Frames

19th Century Oil painting by David Jacobsen – Landscape Scene
By David Jacobsen
Located in Gallatin, TN
“Jacobsen” Housed in original ornate period gold gilded gesso frame
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19th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Raffaele Frigerio Tavern Scene Oil Painting Entitled "Flirtation
By Raffaele Frigerio
Located in Gallatin, TN
shows incorrect dates) SIZE: 20" x 15" overall 31" x 24" Housed in ornately carved period gilt gesso
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Early 18th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large and Grand Regency Period Giltwood and Gesso Carved Convex Mirror
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
The giltwood and gesso frame has a wide carved laurel leaf border which is decorated with egg and
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Giltwood

Gilt George III Style Oval Margin Mirror
Located in Darwen, GB
A gilt George III style oval margin mirror. Housed in a carved gilt-wood and gesso frame with a
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Early 1900s George III Antique Gesso Frames

19th Century Religious Pair of Italian Porcelain Plaques
Located in Suffolk, GB
. These are very fine examples and the plaques are framed in highly decorative Rococo style wood and gesso
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19th Century Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Porcelain

English Naval Battle, Oil Painting by Bernard Gribble
By Bernard Gribble
Located in Paradise Point, Queensland
quality gesso frame Signed bottom left. This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1926
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1920s English Romantic Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Louis Philippe Giltwood Mirror Circa 1870
Located in San Francisco, CA
and gesso frame features deeply carved moldings. The gilded surface is particularly nice. Less than 2
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19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Wood

Large Early 19th Century Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Darwen, GB
later high quality double swept carved giltwood and gesso frame. Recently removed from a large country
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1820s Antique Gesso Frames

French Frame
Located in Seattle, WA
A mid 19th century French gilt renaissance revival frame with Cherubs or Seraphim decorating the
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19th Century French Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Plaster, Gesso

Late 19th Century French Carved Gilt-Wood Margin Mirror
Located in Darwen, GB
and gesso frame with a wonderful floral crest flanked by twin flaming urns with a central shaped
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1880s Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Giltwood

Pair of Frames
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Walnut Frames with Worn Gilded Fillets. Spain, Late 19th Century
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19th Century Spanish Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Walnut, Gesso

Demure Woman in Straw Bonnet
Located in Minneapolis, MN
its original, lined, ornate gesso frame. This illustration comes from the collection of esteemed
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Early 20th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Pastel, Illustration Board

Francesco Peluso Italian, 1836-1916 a Pair of Oil on Canvas Paintings
By Francesco Peluso
Located in London, GB
paintings. Pair of Works: Spinning Yarn; and a Rest from Work, within a gilt wood and gesso frame. Signed: F
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1880s Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Frame
Located in Round Top, TX
Carved frame with gesso and gold leaf.
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1840s Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Frame
Frame
$985
19th Century Original Oil Painting by Arnold Frische
By Arnold Frisch
Located in Gallatin, TN
gold wood and gesso frame Dimensions: 29.0″ W x 23.5″ H x 2.0″ D Good Condition; Antique plaster frame
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19th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Regency Period Giltwood and Gesso Convex Wall Mirror, circa 1825
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
mirror plate with ebonised reeded mahogany slip, surrounded by a molded gilt gesso frame with acanthus
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1820s English Regency Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

American E. A. Harvey Original Maritime Oil Painting on Canvas "The Harriet"
Located in Wells, ME
signed and dated: E.A.HARVEY 1-15 (January of 1915). She is housed in her original gold leaf and gesso
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Early 20th Century American American Classical Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Pair of Miniature 19th Century Gilt Frame Mirrors
Located in Los Angeles, CA
be used as painting frames. The mirrors retain the original gilt with loss to one frame, as noted in
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19th Century Unknown Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso

Rococo Gilded Gesso Bed with Mermaids and Eagles WK75
Located in Wrexham, GB
gesso work depicting a scene of mermaids, three feathered pediment, eagles' heads and scroll work
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Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso

French 38x50 Regence Picture Frame circa 1860
Located in Hallowell, US
This is an antique French Gesso gold leaf Gilded Regence style Picture Frame for canvas art. Rabbet
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Mid-19th Century French Regency Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Aesthetic Period Picture Frame in Gilt and Black
Located in Stonington, CT
A late 19th, or early 20th-century picture frame. The outer border is picked out with black
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19th Century American Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso

Richard Geiger Deco Style Painting
By Richard Geiger
Located in Gallatin, TN
" overall 46 x34" Housed in ornate period gilt gesso frame CONDITION: Very good, some minor gesso loss to
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Early 18th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

The Arabian Nights
By Louis Rhead
Located in Minneapolis, MN
is framed in an antique art nouveau bat wing gesso frame. Sight Size 7" x 7" Framed 10 1/2" x 10 1
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1910s Art Nouveau Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

India Ink, Paper

Pair of Gilded Ripple Molded Picture or Mirror Frames
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A beautiful pair of frames with what appears to be the original surface.
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19th Century American Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso

19th C. Pair Of Victorian Gilt And Composition Frames
Located in San Francisco, CA
Each rectangular form with an interior leaf tip band surrounded by carved pebble-texture and bead molding , mounted at each corner with deeply carved fruits and foliage of autumn har...
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19th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso

An American Beauty
By Earl Christy
Located in Minneapolis, MN
ornate wood gesso frame. This illustration comes from the collection of esteemed illustration art
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1920s Other Art Style Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Pastel, Illustration Board

Tabernacle Frame Case from the Estate of Hugh Grant
Located in New York, NY
may be used as such, or re-imaging as a frame for an image or mirror. Hugh J. Grant was
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19th Century American Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso, Paint

Della Robbia Style Hand Carved Italian Gilt Tondo Frame
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite example of a Della Robbia style frame is complete with a running garland of flowers
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18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

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Antique Gesso Frames For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of antique gesso frames available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of gesso, wood and glass, all antique gesso frames available were constructed with great care. Antique gesso frames have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Antique gesso frames are generally popular furniture pieces, but Victorian, Rococo and Louis XV styles are often sought at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made antique gesso frames over the years, but those made by John James Audubon, Edgar Degas and James Edwin Meadows are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Antique Gesso Frames?

Prices for antique gesso frames start at $170 and top out at $30,965 with the average selling for $1,899.
Questions About Antique Gesso Frames
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 28, 2021
    Gesso is the Italian word for “chalk.” It has been used for the preparation of gilding frames. You can find a variety of gesso picture frames on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
    Antique picture frames can be very valuable, particularly if they are older and have maintained their high quality. Some designs are considered classically attractive and are more valuable even if they are not as old.
    1stDibs ExpertAugust 24, 2021
    Yes, antique picture frames are considered valuable. They are regarded as high-value collectibles and can often be seen in exhibits without canvases, as art pieces on their own. Made of wood traditionally, antique picture frames remain very popular owing to their ability to be shaped in varied profiles. You can choose from a wide variety of antique picture frames, including designs in antique and vintage, new and contemporary, and 21st century pre-owned styles on 1stDibs.