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19th Century Gold Gilt and Gesso Wood Frame Wall Mirror with Foliate Design ‘a’
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th century gold gilt and gesso wood frame wall mirror with foliate design. Item features ornate
Category

Antique 19th Century Hollywood Regency Wall Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Wood

Antique French Neoclassical Gold Figural Gesso Large 76x54 Trumeau Floor Mirror
Located in Philadelphia, PA
large impressive size, gold gilt gesso figural details, maiden faces, urns and wreaths, distressed gold
Category

Early 20th Century Unknown Renaissance Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mir...

Materials

Gesso, Glass

Antique French Renaissance Baroque Carved Giltwood Gesso Wall Mirror with Face
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Renaissance Baroque Style Carved Giltwood Gesso Wall Mirror with Maiden Face
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Unknown Baroque Wall Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Mirror, Wood

Antique 19th C Victorian Gold Giltwood Gesso Foliate Design Wall Mirror (A)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
ornate gold gilt gesso foliate, wooden frame, central mirror, very nice antique item. Circa 19th Century
Category

Antique 19th Century Unknown Victorian Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood

Kindel Bleached Walnut Parcel Gilt Wall Mirror
By Kindel Furniture
Located in Chicago, IL
Understated and elegant wall mirror from Kindel Furniture. Bleached walnut frame with parcel gilt
Category

Vintage 1950s American Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Walnut

Large French Empire Ebony Black and Gold Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirror
Located in Hopewell, NJ
classic French form. A lovely rectangular shape, the surfaces all decorated with gilt-gesso decorations
Category

Vintage 1940s French Empire Wall Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Mirror

Early 18th Century Gilt Wood Italian Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
centuries, adorned with the most beautiful gilt gesso over carved wood decorative elements. In totally
Category

Antique 1730s Italian Baroque Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Wood

American Gilt over Mantle Mirror with Cove Molding
Located in Kenilworth, IL
with a period gilt oval spandrel and fitted with mirrored glass. The surfaces are gilt gesso on
Category

Antique 19th Century American Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Pine, Giltwood

Georgian Gold Gesso Wall Mirror with Verre Eglomise Gilded Glass Frieze
Located in Hastings, GB
Achingly pretty Georgian period mirror, gilt-gesso surround with reeded insert around the original
Category

Antique Early 1800s English Rococo Wall Mirrors

Materials

Glass, Wood, Mirror

American Gilt Tabernacle Pier Mirror With Eglomise, c. 1820
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American Sheraton gilt gesso tabernacle looking glass with eglomisé upper glass panel above a
Category

Antique 19th Century American Sheraton Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Materials

Enamel

Early 19th Century American New England Gilt Tabernacle Pier Mirror
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American Sheraton split pillar, gilt gesso, two part tabernacle looking glass with a projecting
Category

Antique Early 19th Century American Sheraton Pier Mirrors and Console Mi...

Materials

Mercury Glass, Wood, Giltwood

Pair Large Neoclassical Gilt Green Cased-Glass Table Lamps
Located in Chicago, IL
Elegant and unusual, these green cased glass and gilt gesso table lamps are quite large and
Category

Vintage 1950s American Table Lamps

Materials

Brass

Antique French Victorian Gold Gilt Scroll Oval Beveled Glass Wall Mirror
Located in Philadelphia, PA
. Antique French Victorian Gold Gilt Gesso Scroll Oval Beveled Glass Wall Mirror. Circa Early 20th Century
Category

Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood

Beautiful 19th Century Cream French Painted Decorative Rectangular Wall Mirror
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Decorative Gilt Gesso Florals and Foliage Detailing
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood, Paint

American Gilt Tabernacle Pier Mirror by Waterhouse
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American Sheraton gilt gesso tabernacle pier mirror of turned white pine. The cornice is fitted
Category

Antique Early 19th Century American Sheraton Pier Mirrors and Console Mi...

Materials

Mercury Glass, Pine, Giltwood

Large Gilt and Cream French Convex Wall Mirror
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
” wide cream coloured and Gilt Gesso frame and has a convex looking glass The mirror is in good
Category

Early 20th Century French Provincial Convex Mirrors

Materials

Mirror

Silvio Bicchi (1874-1948), La Mucca, The Cow
Located in New York, NY
of a young cow in a gilt gesso and wood carved frame. Italy, first quarter twentieth century. Signed
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Paintings

Materials

Paint, Gesso, Wood

Pair of Period Baroque Venetian Giltwood Sconces
Located in Hanover, MA
clad in water gilt gesso, terminating in carved water giltwood candle cups. Very good original
Category

Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Metal

Italian Classical Trumeau Mirror with Sconces
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1950s Italian Trumeau mirror with brass sconces. Wood and gilt gesso. Sconces are on two panels
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood

French Art Deco 1930s Maison Dominique Attr. Floor Lamp
Located in London, GB
and carved timber, lacquered and decorated in gilt gesso - now heavily patinated. The finial of the
Category

20th Century French Floor Lamps

Materials

Gesso, Lacquer

French Napoleon II Carved Gilt and Painted Console Mirror
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
top of the mirror has scalloped Arch shape, bordered with gilt gesso carvings which are set on a
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Napoleon III Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Materials

Giltwood

Large Louis XV Style Giltwood Console Table, 19th Century with Marble Top
Located in Houston, TX
kegs with stretcher, ending in scroll feet. Beautiful Gilt patina, gilt gesso over carved wood frame.
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Console Tables

Materials

Marble

Impressionist Style Landscape Signed Paul Rubens
By Claude Monet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
the distance, presented in a gilt/gesso frame; signed Paul Rubens; likely English, 20th century.
Category

Mid-20th Century British Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Gilt Oak Leaf Frame Mirror
Located in South Salem, NY
A generously sized English mirror with a gilt gesso frame. Crafted in the early 20th century, this
Category

Early 20th Century English Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror

Pair American Carved Giltwood Mirrors
Located in New York, NY
Pair American carved giltwood mirrors. Gilt gesso framed mirrors with lemon gold liners and
Category

Antique Late 19th Century American Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

French Neoclassical Style Giltwood Wall / Console Mirror with Oval Artwork
Located in Manhasset, NY
her cherub. Finely cast gilt gesso wall mirror. Diminutive in form with carved frame high lighted
Category

Vintage 1920s French Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Mirror, Wood

Antique Outlaw Portrait Convex Glass
Located in Savannah, GA
An antique portrait photograph of a gentleman nicely presented in a gilt gesso frame with convex
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Prints

Materials

Glass, Giltwood, Paper

A Pair of Large Italian Carved Walnut and Parcel-Gilt Armchairs, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
gently slanted square back surmounted by a pair of parcel-gilt gesso foliate finials to either end
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Armchairs

Materials

Walnut

Oil on Canvas, “Cows Watering at Stream, Aymar Pezant, 1846-1916
Located in Atlanta, GA
lead cow gazing directly at the viewer, in its original gilt-gesso frame complete with artist’s
Category

Antique 1880s French Paintings

Materials

Paint

Large French 19th Century Overmantel
Located in London, GB
A large French overmantel gilt gesso mirror with an arched scroll pediment. The frame is decorated
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace M...

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Antique Adam Style Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and very high quality original antique Adam Style mirror in gilt wood and gesso. This
Category

Antique 1890s English Adam Style Wall Mirrors

Materials

Giltwood, Mirror

Antique Harp C1920 Rudolph Wurlitzer Gilt W Birdeye Maple Inlay Starke Model
By Wurlitzer
Located in Port Jervis, NY
fluted column sits on a gilt gesso base and has a conforming crown. Several string missing , but we have
Category

Vintage 1920s American Biedermeier Musical Instruments

Materials

Gesso, Birdseye Maple, Maple, Giltwood

19th Century French Gilded Mirror
Located in Charlottesville, VA
19th century French mirror in an ornate gilt gesso frame in a period style, with worn gilding and
Category

Antique 19th Century French Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

19th Century, Antique French Gold Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
19th century antique French gilt mirror. Beautiful aged gilt and gesso frame. Foxed mirror plate in
Category

Antique 19th Century French Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood

Set of Four Queen Anne Gilded Side Chairs
Located in Essex, MA
Remarkable Set of Four Queen Anne or George I Style Gilded Side Chairs. Carved and gilt gesso in
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century English Queen Anne Chairs

Materials

Giltwood

An Original Pair Of English Watercolor/Sketches C. 1854, 1855, Ellen Dumbleton
Located in New Orleans, LA
, Humble House and Summer house, Hall Grove. Beautifully presented in gilt gesso and wood frames. Ellen
Category

Antique 1850s English High Victorian Decorative Art

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Pair of Palatial Mirrors Louis XVI Giltwood Hand Carved, Pier / Console / Wall
Located in Manhasset, NY
Pair of Monumental Wall or Console Mirrors, Over the Mantle Mirror, A magnificent pair of gilt
Category

Late 20th Century Louis XVI Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Wood

Regency Amboyna and Gilt Library Table Attributed to Seddon and Morel
By Morel Seddon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
throughout with rich amboyna veneers and gilt gesso edging to the top and inside the panels of the end
Category

Antique 1810s English Regency Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Amboyna

A Very Good Regency Period Giltwood Wall Mirror, England Circa 1825
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
tablet with burnished gilt gesso classical motifs in high-relief, overtop a later mirrored plate sided by
Category

Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Wall Mirrors

Materials

Giltwood, Mirror

Regency Amboyna and Gilt Library Table Attributed to Seddon and Morel
By Morel Seddon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
is decorated throughout with rich amboyna veneers and gilt gesso edging to the top and end supports
Category

Antique 1810s English Regency Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Wood

Large Antique Ecclesiastical Style Framed Painted Canvas
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large antique ecclesiastical style painted canvas housed in a gilt gesso timber frame
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Decorative Art

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Superb Large 18th Century Louis XVI Gold Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
, which has foxed in the most wonderful manner, the carved wood and gilt gesso decoration, with hues of
Category

Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood

19th C. William Salter "The Waterloo Banquet at Apsley House" Framed Engraving
Located in Philadelphia, PA
table in military uniforms. Framed in a gilt gesso & wood military themed frame. Marked along lower edge
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Unknown Victorian Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Wood, Paper

Mid-18th Century Mahogany Small Bureau Bookcase
Located in London, GB
architectural dentil-moulded cornice above shaped mirrored door with original gilt-gesso framing. The bookcase
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English George II Bookcases

Materials

Mahogany

Pair of George III Carved Giltwood Demi Lune Tables
Located in London, GB
A Pair of George III Carved Giltwood Demi Lune Tables with statuary marble white tops, above a gilt
Category

Antique Late 18th Century George III Side Tables

Materials

Giltwood

Superb Art Deco Venetian Style Mirror This is a very attractive piece
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
etched mirrors set in a shield formation, the decorative theme carries through on the gilt gesso of the
Category

Vintage 1950s Arts and Crafts Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror

19th Century Italian Baroque Style Giltwood and Gesso Mirror with Verre Églomisé
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century Italian baroque-style mirror is made from giltwood, gilt gesso, and verre
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Baroque Wall Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Napoleon III Giltwood Overmantel Mirror, Louis XV Style, Circa 1860
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Napoleon III Giltwood and Gilt-Gesso Overmantel Mirror. France, Circa 1860 This fine and large
Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Antique French Mirror
Located in Nashville, TN
Antique French gilt gesso wall mirror in Rococo style. It features an ornate, flowing giltwood
Category

Antique 1880s French Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

Large Italian Chinoiserie Vase
Located in New York, NY
views of gentlemen, on a gilt gesso and wood scrolled foliate base, Italy, circa 1815. Dimensions: 12
Category

Antique Early 19th Century Italian Chinoiserie Vases

Materials

Porcelain

Regency Oval Silk Embroidery of a Shepherdess
Located in New York, NY
foliage. The figure's face and feet painted. Set within a carved gilt gesso ol frame with a cobalt blue
Category

Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Early 19th Century Regency Giltwood Pier Glass with Intaglio Cut Mirror Plate
Located in Worcester, GB
wear as described. Materials: Carved wood, gilt gesso, mirror glass
Category

Antique Early 19th Century British Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

Pair of English Rococo Style Giltwood Two Light Sconces with Ebonized Eagle Tops
Located in Milford, NH
, recently rewired, with minor gilt gesso losses, and other minor imperfections and wear commensurate with
Category

20th Century English Rococo Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Metal

18th Century Gold Processional Religious Church Cross
Located in Hastings, GB
Wonderfully ornate gilt gesso over carved wood processional cross, probably northern Italy late
Category

Antique 1780s Italian Baroque Religious Items

Materials

Wood

Gorgeous Pair of Empire Style Black Gold Wall Mirrors
Located in Hopewell, NJ
motif is a classic French form. A lovely rectangular shape, the surfaces all decorated with gilt-gesso
Category

Vintage 1940s French Empire Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror

Exceptional 18th Century Rococo Giltwood Marble Top Commode
Located in Milford, NH
century and is in very good overall condition, with some high point gilt gesso losses, minor surface
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century German Rococo Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Marble

Antique Napoleonic French Empire Parcel-Gilt Mahogany Wine Cabinet Armoire 1810
Located in Portland, OR
, below is a neoclassical style pediment which is supported by seven gilt gesso corbels and decorated with
Category

Antique 1810s French Empire Cabinets

Materials

Bronze

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