Collection: Jharokha Wall Frames & Rajasthani Mirrors

A jharokha is the overhanging enclosed balcony window of a Rajasthani haveli — the carved stone frame women of the household once watched the street through, seen but unseen. Rendered as wall art it keeps that architecture: an arched opening, a projecting sill, and sometimes shutters that really open. Sixteen pieces here, from a $60 hand-painted mirror to a $235 signed original.

Which one do you need

A mirror, 12x10 inches — $60. Three listings at this size, and they differ by painting rather than shape. One carries white line work on solid colour across eight colourways, one is multicolour floral across six, and one is a five-colour hand-painted set. People here buy these in grids of four to eight, so pick the listing whose style you want to repeat.

A mirror, larger — $85 to $160. The 20x16 Large Jharokha in seven colours is three times the panel of the 12x10 with a scalloped cusped arch. The Rajasthani Jharokha with Opening Doors at $160 is the one with working hinged shutters, brass hardware, pierced quatrefoil cutouts and a surround of real mirror glass set in by hand. That inlay is the reason for the price gap, and it is why the doors version is a different object rather than a dearer one.

A painted panel, not a mirror — $180 to $190. Shreenathji, Radha Krishna, the Peacock 24x24, and the Welcome pair of a man and a woman in namaste. These use the jharokha arch as a frame around a figure or motif. The Welcome two are designed as a pair and several photographs show them hung either side of a door.

A signed original — $195 to $235. Five panels by Sakshi Khullar, each named for an American landscape: Emerald Yosemite, Amber Bryce Canyon, Yellowstone Mist, Thunderstorm Blue Ridge and White House. A Rajasthani palace-window form named for American places, painted by a named Indian artist, for households that live in both. Yellowstone Mist, Thunderstorm and White House have doors that open. Each is signed on the reverse under a studio label.

Where these work

Above a console or entry table, either side of a doorway for the Welcome pair, in a stairwell where the projecting sill catches side light, or grouped as a grid on a long wall. The mirrors work in dark hallways where the glass does the job a window would.