Vintage Style Mirror in Gilded Teak with an Oval Plate and Bow Crest

Putting an oval inside a rectangle leaves four corner panels, and how those are carved decides whether the two shapes get along.

The obvious approach is to treat each corner as a corner: put a symmetrical rosette or a square motif in it, aligned to the frame. It looks tidy on a drawing. On the finished mirror it fights, because now the corner ornament is announcing the rectangle at exactly the point where the eye is trying to follow the oval round.

So the sprays here are set out from the oval instead. Each grows out of the outer corner and curves inward, with its leaves and flowers following the ellipse - so the ornament runs alongside the curve rather than across it.

The four are laid out as two mirrored pairs, upper and lower, rather than four copies of the same spray - because the oval is taller than it is wide, and a spray that sits comfortably in the top corner is slightly too long for the bottom one.

The effect is that the corners lead the eye around the oval, and the rectangle becomes a background rather than a competitor.

Material: solid teak in the frame, corner panels, bow crest, swags and back structure.

Glass: oval mirror plate set as a true ellipse within a rectangular frame.

Corners: four carved floral sprays growing inward from the corners and following the oval's curve, laid out as two mirrored pairs.

Crest: carved ribbon bow at the top centre with falling swags.

Frame: running band of small flowers to the outer edge, beaded moulding ringing the glass.

Back: solid structure carrying the hanging fixings.

Finish: gilded by hand, raised work burnished brighter than the grounds.

Made to order: size, oval proportion, corner design and finish are all customisable. Custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

An oval plate inside a rectangular frame has four points where the glass edge comes closest to the corner panels, and those are padded first.

The plate is taped in a grid across its face, edge-padded around the ellipse and covered with a rigid board cut to the oval.

The gilded frame takes acid-free tissue directly against the gold, then foam bedded into the hollows of the carving rather than pressed onto the raised work.

The bow crest and the four corner sprays stand proudest and each is given a moulded foam block.

The mirror travels flat in a hardwood crate with corner protection at every arris and clear orientation marking.

Hanging fixings are packed in a labelled bag taped to the back. Multi-layer protective packaging is included on every order at no extra cost.

Delivery is free anywhere in India, with guaranteed dent-free arrival. No distance charge, no size charge and no handling fee.

Production begins once your dimensions are confirmed in writing - and we agree both the outer frame size and the oval proportion, since the relationship between the two is what this design is about.

We photograph your actual mirror through the build: the ellipse set out inside the frame, the corner sprays carved, the gilding and the finished mirror.

On site, our team unpacks it flat, marks the fixings and hangs it level.

Send us lift dimensions, stair turns and doorway widths ahead of dispatch so the route can be planned. Every photograph on this page is of the actual product, not a render.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the frame members, the corner panels, the crest and the back structure, along with every joint between them.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with the mirror and never expires. Teak's natural oils are its own defence and our warranty stands behind them.

The oval plate and hanging fixings are covered against manufacturing defect. The ellipse your frame was set out to is recorded, so a replacement plate can be cut to the original shape rather than measured off the frame.

The gilding specification is logged against your order number for future matching. Contact us and we will arrange it.