Decorative Mirror for Wall in Gilded Teak with a Swept Frame and Corner Cartouches

On a swept frame the corners are the honest test, and the answer is decided before any carving starts.

The hollow that runs along each rail cannot simply continue into the corner - two hollows meeting at a mitre produce a soft, muddled junction that never quite resolves. So our artisans stop the sweep short at each end and leave a flat pad on the corner block. The hollow is then worked from the centre of each rail outward toward that pad, and finished with a scraper run in one continuous pass so there are no facets in the curve.

Those flat pads are what the corner cartouches are bedded onto. The ornament is not stuck over a curve and hoped for; it has a true, flat seat cut for it, which is why the leaf clusters sit tight to the frame with no gap under their edges even after years on a wall.

It is a decision nobody sees. It is also the reason the frame still looks right in a decade.

Material: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans.

Profile: swept frame with a hollowed face, stopped at flat corner pads that carry the carved cartouches.

Ornament: shell cartouche at the top and bottom centres, leafy scroll clusters at all four corners, running bands along the outer and inner edges.

Finish: gold gilding over the carved and swept surfaces, burnished along the raised bands. Silver, ivory, champagne, black with gold and natural teak available.

Plate: mirror glass set from the back into a rebate; plain or bevelled to your choice.

Hanging: concealed fixings supplied, rated for the finished weight; portrait or landscape orientation set at the time of order.

Sizes: custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

Photography: images on this page are photographs of the actual product, not renders.

A swept frame has one thing to protect above all: the long, uninterrupted curve of the hollow. A single point of pressure anywhere along it would show, because the eye follows that curve from end to end.

So the frame is faced along its whole swept surface with a continuous foam sheet rather than spot padding, spreading any load evenly. The corner cartouches and the two centre shells, which stand proudest, are each capped separately before the outer wrapping goes on.

The plate is filmed and backed with a cut board so the glass never bears weight. The mirror then goes into laminated foam, bubble wrap and a fitted wooden crate, marked for orientation and handling.

Multi-layer protective packaging is standard on every order and dent-free arrival is guaranteed. If something is not right on opening, tell us and we will resolve it.

Free delivery across India comes with the mirror. No freight line, no distance charge, no small-town surcharge.

Because the piece is made to order, production starts when your size, orientation, finish and plate specification are confirmed in writing. You get a realistic production window at that stage and updates as the mirror moves through carving, gilding and crating.

The shipment is tracked and our team stays reachable throughout. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed and honoured by us.

If your building has a narrow stair, a small lift or a restricted entrance, say so when you order. We plan the crate dimensions and the delivery route around those constraints before the piece leaves the workshop.

Brown Rabbit covers the solid teak frame and its joinery for 20 years. On this piece that means the mitred frame, the corner blocks, the seats cut for the cartouches and the joints holding every carved element to the frame.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs alongside it, for as long as you own the mirror. Teak resists termites naturally because of the oils it carries, and we back that with a written guarantee rather than leaving it as a claim about the species.

The gilding is hand-laid and hand-burnished, so the highlights along the swept face vary slightly along their length. That variation is the finish behaving as intended.

Written warranty terms are issued with the order, so the cover is agreed before the timber is cut.