Architectural Mirror in the manner of George II

A carved and giltwood looking rectangular glass mirror that combines the genius of Thomas Chippendale together with that of Thomas Johnson. In...

This rectangular giltwood looking glass mirror is carved in a light and open Rococo style frame. The mirror plate is set within vigorously drawn C-scrolls, acanthus leaves, flowers a...

These small carved giltwood oval mirrors of Chippendale design illustrate the English Rococo period of the middle years of the 18th century. These small oval looking glasses are in ...

A George I style carved giltwood and gesso looking glass mirror. The rectangular mirror plate is in a leaf and shell carved moulded frame beneath a shaped cresting centered by a pier...

A small carved giltwood looking glass mirror in a swirling Rococo style frame incorporating many of the mid-18th century designers repertoire of vigorous leaf carved scrolls, leaves ...

An oval carved giltwood looking glass mirror in the manner of George III. The moulded frame is carved with leaves carefully worked with C-scrolls both in front and behind the leaves....

A George II Style Pier Glass in the manner of Matthias Lock Of rectangular form, constructed in giltwood and gesso, elaborately carved incorporating f...

A good pair of looking glasses In the manner of Thomas Chippendale The oval mercury glass plates housed within ornate rococo carved and pierce...

A George III Giltwood Pier Mirror In the Manner of Thomas Johnson An exceptionally detailed design; the superb carved decoration housing a shaped rectangular plate and undulating mirrored borders; the inner frame closely tied to the outer frame and leading the eye around the mirror. The grandiose masterful carving incorporating C-scrolls, flowering branchwork, stylized icicles, acanthus leaves, and distinctive architectural follies and figures which firmly place this mirror within the canon of Johnson's greatest designs. The confident execution is a great testament to the technical prowess and artistic creativity of one of the greatest carvers and designers of the eighteenth century, circa 1760. Provenance Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Farmleigh, Co. Dublin, (1880?-1927); The Earls of Iveagh, Farmleigh, Co. Dublin & Elveden Hall, Suffolk (1927-2018). Thomas Johnson (1723-1799) Thomas Johnson was one of the most skilled carvers and furniture designers in Georgian England. Drawing inspiration from the Fables of Aesop, the rococo, China, and the idealised rustic life, his work is whimsical, exuberant and witty. Chippendale borrowed freely from his work. Johnson was a founder member of the 'Antigallican Society', a group who excoriated the French taste. In addition to its relation to Johnson's designs, this mirror also reflects the influence of Lock, the great master with whom he worked for a period. Lock published many sketches and pattern books, including A New Book of Ornaments for Looking Glasses in 1752, introducing several idiosyncratic features which Johnson would adopt such as the small decorative urns...

A superb Irish George II white painted mirror. The carved architectural top with a central scallop shell, above a panel of panel swagged ribbons a...

Fine George II carved and pierced giltwood mirror.

An exceptional and beautifully preserved rare pair of period George II looking glasses in the style of William Kent (1685-1748) with beveled mirror plates. The burled walnut tablet is bound by Greek eared-architraves with acanthus detailing and oak leaf and acorn garlands. The whole is surmounted by a graceful swan-neck pediment and a central pierced and carved cartouche...