Irish Convex Mirrors

19th century convex mirror with original glass from the Regency period. Beautiful water gilding.

Round convex mirror cover with goatskin and brass details. Parchment is in varying shades of natural color. (High gloss polyester resin filled finish).

Urns and foliate carvings adorn this attractive piece.

French giltwood sunburst convex mirror. This stunning French carved gilt wood sunburst mirror has a warm aged patina and good scale. Beautiful aged convex mirror.

Nineteenth century giltwood convex wall mirror with ball and ribbon decoration.

Exceptional English Regency style convex Girandole mirror made by Friedman Brothers decorative arts. Painstaking model of an 18th century hand-...

French round gilt wood sunburst or starburst wall mirror with antiqued convex mirror. Wall mirror is combination of composition and wood. Overall...

English Regency giltwood convex mirror, circa 1810. Featuring elaborate carving at top and bottom of acanthus leaves and scrolls, with two single graceful girandole. Bull's-eye mirro...

Stunning gilt convex mirror circa 1850. The mirror features a concave frame, decorated water gilded spheres, inset with an ebony reeded slip. The mirror plate is original, ornate car...

Dramatic large handcrafted giltwood sunburst mirror with a convex looking glass. Made by Carvers Guild featuring a carved frame with angular facets covered in gold leaf. Over four fe...

A truly fabulous, important, rare and grand proportioned Regency giltwood convex mirror. The substantial frame carved with overlapping laurel leaves and berries, supporting to boldly carved acanthus candelabra with original cut-glass drip pans and gilt bronze nozzles. The gilding has aged to a deep rich colour. This fabulous and incredibly grand masterpiece retains its original convex mirror plate. One of the finest period convex mirrors ever made. The creation of convex mirrors became possible with the development of glass blowing. When the glassblower created a small glass bulb, they were filled with a metallic mixture of lead and tin while still hot. Once cooled, the bulbs were cut into smaller pieces and could be used as hand an pocket mirrors. They were used as fashionable pieces of jewelry and were often encased with gold, silver, ivory and tortoiseshell. The Empire circular convex mirror was introduced from France, where they had been made as early as 1756. This style of mirror became so popular under the heading ‘Mirrors’, in Sheraton’s 'Cabinet Dictionary' (1803), that they are the only style mentioned. Convex mirrors were said to “strengthen the colour and take off the coarseness of objects by contracting them”. Convex mirrors produced on a larger scale were both practical and intriguing. While they distort the image that they reflect, they also magnify light...

A Regency convex mirror with carved, ebonised moulded octagonal frame. We are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time.