Collection: Handcrafted Indian Wall Mirrors

Hand-painted Indian wall mirrors in two forms: the jharokha, a Rajasthani palace-window frame with an arched opening, and the mandala, a round disc of concentric hand-drawn pattern with a mirror at its centre. Nineteen pieces, $60 to $320, all with real mirror glass.

Which one do you need

Jharokha, 12x10 inches — $60. Three listings at this size, differing only in the painting: eight colourways of white line work, six multicolour florals, and a five-colour hand-painted set. These are bought in grids of four to eight, so choose the listing whose style you want to repeat across a wall.

Jharokha, 20x16 inches — $85 to $195. The Large Jharokha in seven colours is three times the panel with a scalloped cusped arch. The Rajasthani version at $160 has working hinged shutters, brass hardware and a hand-set mirror-glass surround. Three signed panels by Sakshi Khullar at $195 — Yellowstone Mist, Thunderstorm Blue Ridge and White House — have doors that open onto the mirror.

Mandala, 24 inches — $160. Six designs, all one price, so the choice is purely which pattern suits the room. Red & Teal has the largest centre mirror in the range at 14 inches. Pink Sunburst is the only one whose edge is cut into petals rather than left round. Ivory & Black is the most neutral — the one that works in a room with nothing else Indian in it. Monochrome Feather, Multicolour and Yellow Lotus complete the set, and Yellow Lotus is the one for a dark hallway where the colour does the work a window would.

Mandala, 36 inches — $320. Four designs and a genuinely different proposition: three feet across and 5.6 kg, which makes it the anchor of a wall rather than an addition to it. Hawaii Rainforest is the only one with mirror chips inlaid into the rings, so it needs a light source to work. Hawa Mahal Pink takes its palette from the rose sandstone palace of 953 windows. Peacock closes its outer ring with around forty individually drawn feather eyes. California Poppy is the brightest.

Carved wood — $100. An 18-inch carved mirror with green parrots and pink lotus, the only carved-timber frame here.

Where these work

A hallway or entry where a mirror opens the space, above a console, over a mantel, or as a grid of the 12x10 jharokhas along a stair wall. The 36-inch mandalas suit a large blank wall above a sofa or bed.