Moorish Mirrors
MOORISH STYLE
After the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the eighth century, Islamic Spain became a cultural mix of influences that shaped both private homes and religious spaces. Moorish design was the name given to this style, which evolved through the 15th century with vibrant tile work, horseshoe arches and lavish ornamentation, most visible at sites such as Granada’s Alhambra and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba. Moorish furniture was often similarly ornate, and featured pieces inlaid with wood, ivory and bone.
When European designers began studying Moorish art and architecture in the early 19th century, it led to a Moorish Revival. Appropriating the style’s decorative flourishes and architectural elements, it promoted a romantic view of Islamic design. Travelers could bring home a memento of what they witnessed in the Middle East, a trend that aligned with a fad for themed interiors. Men’s smoking rooms arranged with ottomans, divans and settees and inlaid tables were especially popular, as were cafés where coffee was served amid bead curtains and colorful floor mats. (Handwoven rugs are a centerpiece of Moorish interiors.) Octagonal rooms with domed ceilings were created for wealthy homes, frequently with furnishings like pipe stands, filigree plasterwork and arched doorways. The horseshoe arch is an iconic attribute of Moorish architecture that, in addition to Spain, can be found in Sicily, Morocco and elsewhere.
Several late 19th to early 20th-century movements featured Moorish touches. The American and English Aesthetic Movement, for example, borrowed liberally from global decorating styles, as seen in furniture designed by Lockwood de Forest, a New York-born artist who mixed Eastern and Western forms. The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau also references the elegant use of geometry in Moorish design, with Milanese Art Nouveau furniture designer Carlo Bugatti drawing inspiration from the style. The Arts and Crafts movement, which prized expressive yet simple design, incorporated Moorish influences; hand-painted furniture and tile work created by William De Morgan, a British designer and potter who made furnishings for the likes of Morris & Co., were informed by techniques from Moorish Spain.
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Style: Moorish
Grand Syrian Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
A large scale Damascus mirror: mixed woods to include walnut featuring stunning bone intarsia and hand turned fretwork, in an all over geometric pattern.
Category
20th Century Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Bone, Mirror, Wood, Walnut
Pair Grand Syrian Mirrors
Located in Houston, TX
A pair of large scale Damascus mirrors. Mixed woods to include walnut feature stunning bone intarsia and hand turned fretwork in an all over geometric pattern.
Category
20th Century Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Bone, Mirror, Wood, Walnut
Very Large Oriental Mirror In Marquetry, 20th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Very large mirror in the oriental style, with carved wooden decoration, geometric marquetry of wood, mother-of-pearl and bone, Moorish arch, cartouche with stylized Arabic inscriptio...
Category
20th Century Asian Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Pair of Syrian Moorish Style Bone Inlay Mosaic Wall Mirrors
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Heavenly pair of Indian hand-crafted wall mirrors featuring mosaic bone inlay veneer. Embellished with scrolling vine and floral patterns in the Syrian Moorish style having a creamy ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Bone, Wood
Vintage Moroccan Hand Made Arched Vanity or Wall Mirror with Brass Inlay
Located in Plainview, NY
A vintage arched Moroccan vanity or wall mirror, handmade of natural bone and engraved with beautiful tribal designs. The mirror frame is inlaid in bra...
Category
1980s Moroccan Vintage Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Brass
Large Moroccan Arched Mirror Bone Amber Inlaid
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Moroccan mirror with brass embossed metal.
Vintage Moroccan handcrafted inlay bone and brass arched Moorish wall mirror.
Moroccan mirror in...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Bone, Wood
Antique Wall Mirror with Moorish Design, Small
Located in New York, NY
A small antique wall mirror with Moorish design around top edge, circa early-20th century. Mirror has a Moorish design around top edge, metal...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Mirror
19th Century Damascene Mirror With Bone Inlay & Silvered Metal Decoration
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Beautiful Early 19th Century Highly Decorative Damascene Wall Mirror.
Hand Crafted With Bone Inlaid & Silvered Metal Decoration.
Would Suit A Modern or Period Home, The Monochro...
Category
Early 19th Century Moroccan Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Metal
Moroccan Wall Mirror Etched Brass Vintage 1970s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Handmade Moroccan wall mirror, this handmade mirror has a frame made of brass and accentuated with beautiful engraved Islamic Moroccan brass mirror finely etched with Moorish designs...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Brass
White Shell Inlaid Antique Middle Eastern Damascene Syrian Mirror 66"
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Levantine Middle Eastern Moorish Damascene Syrian antique Mirror, Late 19th Century.
White shell abalone Inlaid Middle Eastern Mirror.
Antique Middle Eastern Moorish mirror in the Turkish Syrian Ottoman style.
Sensational large Levantine finely inlaid with white shell, each piece of inlay is out lined with pewter wire.
The intricate design crown over a rectangular frame surrounded with hand carved wood border, the mirror is flanked by two ornate ornaments, all resting on two inlaid feet.
This mirror is one of the best levantine mirror...
Category
Late 19th Century Lebanese Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Walnut, Shell, Abalone
Anglo-Indian Style Mother of Pearl Inlaid Neoclassical Mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Anglo-Indian Style mother of pearl Inlaid neoclassical mirror.
India, Later 20th century
Of rectangular cartouche shaped, with fine mother of pearl inlays with birds, flowers a...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Mirror, Wood
La Barge Giltwood Wall Mirror
By La Barge
Located in Bradenton, FL
Mid-century La Barge Moorish Style decorative Wall Mirror. Striking mirror characterized by its intricate design & elegant craftsmanship. Features a gold color arch frame inspired by...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Jackson & Graham attributed. A fine quality Moorish over mantle or wall shelf.
By Jackson & Graham
Located in London, GB
Jackson and Graham attributed. A fine quality Moorish mahogany over mantle or wall shelf, with carved floral decoration to the central upper pediment and a display shelf below. Seven...
Category
1880s English Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Boxwood, Walnut
Jacques Philippe Imberton, Oriental-Style Enameled Mirror
By Jacques-Philippe Imberton
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This superb mirror with polychrome enamel decoration is an exceptional piece inspired by Nasrid art, representative of the architectural and decorative forms of the Alhambra Palace.
Mr. Philippe Imberton is, at the present time, the king of enamel; he sows it on the glass, with a prodigal and brilliant hand, early by large plates, sometimes by light veins, but in such a way as to always produce the happiest decorative effects.
Article by Louis Enault in La Presse, published on September 25th, 1884.
The geometric and vegetal patterns are a real innovative achievement in the glass enameling industry. Arranged on a rectangular mirror, the enamels are elegantly composed and colored to form a Nasrid-inspired decoration, representative of a Mudejar architecture, and manifesting the cultural and artistic exchanges in the Iberian Peninsula in the 12th and 16th centuries. The outline of enamels in the form of a horseshoe arch is a typical element of Arabic-Andalusian architecture, visible from early Christian churches to converted mosques.
The horseshoe arch is supported by very thin columns with a concave base and molded rings, a unique type of column that appears only in the Alhambra Palace and indicates the passage to a sacred or royal place. The capital is divided into two bodies, the first of which is cylindrical and has a voluptuous floral decoration. Above, a prism decorated with a plant frieze with a rounded base delicately curves the whole mirror.
I have rarely seen more power combined with greater skill.
Article by Louis Enault in La Presse, published on December 17th, 1880.
The talent of the enameler is rendered by the richness of the polychrome ornamentation of the vegetal patterns, notably by the arabesques of the polylobed arch, that is to say small contiguous arches, each ending in a pointed arch, also polylobed. These arches also evoke the muqarnas vault, one of the most impressive decorative elements among the ornamentation used in the Alhambra. The alfiz, the frame that surrounds the outside of the arch, is decorated with intricate bands of red and yellow floral filigree.
The entire portico is framed by regular and harmonious friezes, decorated with vegetal motifs and structured by lines of small white flowers. Six wild pomegranate flowers, also known as balaustes, are framed on a white enamel background by the eight-pointed star, a recurring figure throughout Islamic art. The flowers are slightly open and accompanied by small pomegranate seeds, a connotation of fertility and the literal symbol of the city of Granada, where the Alhambra is located. The decoration is also characterized by four mirrored fleur-de-lis, as if to express the meeting of the two monotheistic influences in Granada. We can see the extent of refinement in the detail of the rhinestone fixtures that attach the glass mirror to a wooden support.
While the representation of human figures in Muslim art is prohibited, the reflections of faces in the mirror naturally thwart the ban. One can read in an article of the Arts Industriels, published in La Presse on September 25, 1884, some lines notifying a mirror preceding ours: It will not displease the women either to find themselves beautiful by reflecting their fresh faces in this pretty oriental mirror...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Enamel
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Rare Parchment and Copper Mirror by Carlo Bugatti
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare parchment and copper embossed mirror by Carlo Bugatti. inlaid with pewter brass and walnut.
Category
Early 1900s European Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Parchment Paper
Vintage Moroccan Mirror with Two Doors in Moucharabeih Design
Located in Plainview, NY
Beautiful vintage two doors mirror featuring Moucharabeih traditional hand-paint design with lovely details and warm colors. This mirror will be a perfect addiction to your hallway, ...
Category
1960s Moroccan Vintage Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Wood, Paint
Venetian Moorish Style Hand-Carved Italian Mirror
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Venetian Moorish style wood carved composition polychrome decorated mirror.
Heavily carved and hand-painted, decorated with flowers, tulips, fleurs-de-lys and leafs.
Heavy mirror.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Composition
Late 20th Century Ornate Large Scale Resin Mirror, Circa 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Late 20th century Ornate large scale Resin mirror. Circa 1990s
Features a large Syroco style frame mimicking Asian inspired carved wood finished with an antique gold patina and a s...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Resin
Intricately Inlaid Large Antique Moorish Style Mirror
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A stunning Moorish style mirror with amazing inlay work of bone, ebony, mother of pearl and exotic wood.
Category
20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
1980s Hand Oainted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s Hand Oainted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations in blue colors
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations in blue colors
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations in red colors
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations in red colors
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Wood
Vintage Moroccan Mirror Hand Painted with Red Moorish Design
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Moroccan mirror, hand painted, wooden Moorish window shaped mirror.
Beautiful hand crafted mirror in a traditional hand painted Mooris...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Paint
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-painted Moorish Style Wooden Wall Mirror with Decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Moroccan Moorish Mirror Tessellated Stone by Maitland Smith.
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Moorish mirror tessellated marble stone by Maitland Smith.
Monumental Moroccan style mirror by Maitland Smith, tessellated marble stone...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Stone, Travertine, Marble
Vintage Moroccan Mirror Hand Painted with Red and Amber Moorish Design
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Moroccan mirror, hand painted, wooden Moorish window shaped mirror.
Beautiful hand crafted mirror in a traditional hand painted Mooris...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Paint
Old large oriental mirror in engraved and polychromed wood; beveled mirror
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Old large oriental mirror in engraved and polychromed wood;
beveled mirror
small paint losses
Category
Late 19th Century Maghreb Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Wood
1990s Moorish Syle Gilded Metal Wall Mirror
Located in Marbella, ES
1990s Moorish Syle Gilded Metal Wall Mirror
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Metal
1980s Wooden Wall Mirror Imitating Hand Painted Moorish Building Architecture
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s Wooden Wall Mirror Imitating Hand Painted Moorish Building Architecture
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror
Pair of Large Antique Moroccan Inlaid Wall Mirrors
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable pair of 19th Century Moroccan mirrors crafted in indigenous hardwoods in classic Moorish form featuring turned finials, inlaid marquetry in exotic woods and bone,...
Category
Late 19th Century Moroccan Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Bone, Mirror, Hardwood
1980s Hand-painted Moorish Style Wall Mirror with Iron Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s Hand-painted Moorish Style Wall Mirror with Iron Decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Iron
1980s Hand Painted Wooden Wall Mirror Imitating Moorish Building Architecture
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s Hand Painted Wooden Wall Mirror Imitating Moorish Building Architecture
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
1970s Hand Painted Wooden Wall Mirror Imitating Moorish Building Architecture
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Hand Painted Wooden Wall Mirror Imitating Moorish Building Architecture
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Austrian Moorish Revival Enameled & Engraved & Bejeweled Brass Three Fold Mirror
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning, very rare and marvelous workmanship antique table mirror.
If you are looking for great antiques with a high decorative and aesthetic value then this unique, three fold mirror...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Brass, Enamel
ANTIQUE HAND CARVED & PAiNTED BURMESE LIBERTY'S LONDON STYLE OVERMANTLE MIRROR
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale stunning Antique Liberty's of London style hand carved wall mirror made in India after the traditional Burme...
Category
20th Century Indian Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Damascene Moorish Decorative Inlay Tea Table With Matching Wall Mirror
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Damascene Moorish Decorative Inlay Tea Table With Matching Wall Mirror
Featuring A Repetitive Khatam Marquetry of Geometric Decorative Patterns 1910's
Mirror
Height 85.5cm
Width 56...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Pair of Pierced Crest Courting Mirrors
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of carved and painted courting mirrors with soulful patina. An interesting combination of French form and Moroccan decoration. Executed in the ear...
Category
19th Century Moroccan Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Glass
Antique South European Mirror with Moorish Influences
Located in Baambrugge, NL
Antique South European mirror with Moorish influences, painted zinc and aged weathered mirror glass, so that it is not really possible to look in the mirror.
Dimensions: 159.5 x 7...
Category
19th Century Spanish Antique Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Post Modern Moorish Hart Associates Iron & Brass Cathedral Wall Mirror
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Wonderful Hart Associates post modern cathedral mirror in brown with auburn highlights and brass hardware. Brass accent corner buttons wrapped with br...
Category
Late 20th Century Moorish Mirrors
Materials
Brass, Iron
Moorish mirrors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Moorish mirrors for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage mirrors created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include mirrors, folk art, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Moorish mirrors made in a specific country, there are Africa, Maghreb, and Morocco pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original mirrors, popular names associated with this style include Berber Tribes of Morocco, and Maitland Smith. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for mirrors differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $425 and tops out at $18,500 while the average work can sell for $1,975.