Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Early 19th Century French Restauration Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Giltwood, Mercury Glass
Late 18th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
1770s French Louis XVI Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
1790s Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mahogany
18th Century French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
17th Century European Renaissance Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Fruitwood
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Wrought Iron, Tôle
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Glass, Giltwood
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Giltwood, Mirror
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Silver Leaf
18th Century French Directoire Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Silver Plate
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Giltwood
Late 19th Century English Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Velvet, Glass
19th Century Italian Other Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Gold
19th Century Italian Regency Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Glass, Mercury Glass, Mirror
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Early 19th Century Irish George III Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror
19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Gold Leaf
1750s Irish Georgian Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mahogany
19th Century English Regency Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Late 18th Century Irish George III Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Glass, Mercury Glass
Early 20th Century French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Paint, Giltwood, Mirror, Mercury Glass
18th Century Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Wood
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Walnut
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Wire
Late 19th Century French Louis XIII Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Oak
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Black Forest Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Walnut
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Wood
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mirror, Hardwood, Paint
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Glass, Mercury Glass, Wood, Giltwood
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Metal
1820s English Regency Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Brass
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Giltwood, Mercury Glass, Mirror
Mid-19th Century American Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Oak
17th Century Italian Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass
Late 18th Century English Queen Anne Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
1880s French Louis Philippe Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Glass, Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Pine
Early 20th Century French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
1790s American Chippendale Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Glass, Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood
19th Century French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
1880s French Restauration Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
19th Century French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Oak
19th Century French Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
19th Century Italian Antique Mercury Glass Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
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Finding the Right Mirrors for You
The road from early innovations in reflective glass to the alluring antique and vintage mirrors in trendy modern interiors has been a long one but we’re reminded of the journey everywhere we look.
In many respects, wall mirrors, floor mirrors and full-length mirrors are to interior design what jeans are to dressing. Exceedingly versatile. Universally flattering. Unobtrusively elegant. And while all mirrors are not created equal, even in their most elaborate incarnation, they're still the heavy lifters of interior design, visually enlarging and illuminating any space.
We’ve come a great distance from the polished stone that served as mirrors in Central America thousands of years ago or the copper mirrors of Mesopotamia before that. Today’s coveted glass Venetian mirrors, which should be cleaned with a solution of white vinegar and water, were likely produced in Italy beginning in the 1500s, while antique mirrors originating during the 19th century can add the rustic farmhouse feel to your mudroom that you didn’t know you needed.
By the early 20th century, experiments with various alloys allowed for mirrors to be made inexpensively. The geometric shapes and beveled edges that characterize mirrors crafted in the Art Deco style of the 1920s can bring pizzazz to your entryway, while an ornate LaBarge mirror made in the Hollywood Regency style makes a statement in any bedroom. Friedman Brothers is a particularly popular manufacturer known for decorative round and rectangular framed mirrors designed in the Rococo, Louis XVI and other styles, including dramatic wall mirrors framed in gold faux bamboo that bear the hallmarks of Asian design.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, mid-century modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary mirrors. Today’s simple yet chic mantel mirror frames, for example, often neutral in color, owe to the understated mirror designs introduced in the postwar era.
Sculptor and furniture maker Paul Evans had been making collage-style cabinets since at least the late 1950s when he designed his Patchwork mirror — part of a series that yielded expressive works of combined brass, copper and pewter — for Directional Furniture during the mid-1960s. Several books celebrating Evans’s work were published beginning in the early 2000s, as his unconventional furniture has been enjoying a moment not unlike the resurgence that the Ultrafragola mirror is seeing. Designed by the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass in 1970, the Ultrafragola mirror, in all its sensuous acrylic splendor, has become somewhat of a star thanks to much-lauded appearances in shelter magazines and on social media.
On 1stDibs, we have a broad selection of vintage and antique mirrors and tips on how to style your contemporary mirror too.
- What is antique mercury glass?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertOctober 19, 2021Mercury glass, often known as "silvered glass," is an antique decorative art glass made by glassmakers in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), England and America from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. These are blown glass artworks with hollow interiors, the majority of which are double-walled.
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