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Antique French Louis Philippe Gold Mirror
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Louis Philippe gold mirror. Classic lines and appeal.
Category
19th Century French Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf
Italian Midcentury Large Vintage Wall Mirror with Brass Frame, 1970s
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Beautiful and elegant original vintage wall mirror with solid brass frame and crystal mirror glass.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
The crystal glass is still the original from that ti...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Brass
French Renaissance Revival Styled Console Table & Mirror with Brass Cherub Legs
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintage console table and mirror are unsigned, but presumed to have been made in the United States in circa 1955 in the French Renaissance Revival style. The base composition of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Renaissance Revival The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Brass
Swedish Gilded Mirror, circa 1820 with Arched Crest and Flanking Half Columns
Located in Atlanta, GA
An early 19th century Swedish gilded mirror, circa 1820. This mirror features an arched crest and flanking fluted half columns. There are two li...
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood
Modern Grifo Wall Mirror Gold Leaf Handmade in Portugal by Greenapple
By Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Grifo Wall Mirror, Modern Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by GF Modern.
Grifo is a round mirror in a classical style that reflects his graceful personality. The vivid c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf
Contemporary Italian Square / Diamond Mirror in Black and Grey White Leather
Located in New York, NY
An Italian modern black and ivory grey/white square mirror, minimalist fine design, entirely handcrafted. The slightly convex wood frame is covered...
Category
2010s Italian Minimalist The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood, Animal Skin
Contemporary Italian Minimalist Brass Mirror with Organic Curved Frame
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Italian modern design mirror with elegant curved brass frame detached from the mirror, entirely handcrafted, showing a sensual smooth wavelike motion design.
The mirror ...
Category
2010s Italian Organic Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Brass
Ettore Sottsass Post-Modernism Colored Geometric Mirror for Glas Italia 2007
By Glas Italia, Ettore Sottsass
Located in New York, NY
A modern polychromatic Memphis-style mirror designed by Ettore Sottsass, of the post-modernism movement, part of the series Gli Specchi di Dioniso produced by the Italian Company Gla...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Art Glass, Mirror, Cut Glass, Wood
Modernist Steel Framed Mirror
Located in Chicago, IL
An incredible mid-20th century French red painted steel framed mirror with a cast bronze face with two laurel leaf branches, with a bronze drip in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Bronze, Steel
English Regency 19th Century Gilt Pier Mirror
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive regency period giltwood wall pier mirror having replaced
rectangular mirror plate bordered by half turned spiral twist columns
with attractive carved capitals.
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Giltwood
Italian Pair of Modern Nickel Round Mirrors with Jewel like Blue Murano Glass
Located in New York, NY
Italian contemporary round wall mirrors with diamond cut turquoise blue Murano glass accents, entirely handmade, with high quality of execution and materials: the frame is in brass w...
Category
2010s Italian Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Chrome, Brass
Contemporary Italian Organic Modern Ivory White and Gold Leaf Round Lit Mirror
Located in New York, NY
A modern Made in Italy round mirror, entirely handcrafted in glass, of high quality execution: the thick glass frame with beveled edge is decorated on reverse in cream white and a pu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Organic Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf
1960s Italian Minimalist Brass Floating Mirror with Round Arched Top Frame
Located in New York, NY
3 available - Handcrafted Italian vintage Art Deco design mirror with an elegant rounded top brass frame enclosing a detached mirror creating a floating effect.
The mirror plate ends...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Italian Geometric Murano Glass Mirror with Aqua Green Ribbon Decor
Located in New York, NY
An exclusive Venetian rectangular mirror in Murano glass, entirely handcrafted in Italy with a unique modern architectural design of a crenelated decoration. High quality of execution: the border is finished with an antiqued beveled mirror...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Organic Modern The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood, Murano Glass, Mirror, Art Glass
French, 19th Century Petite Louis XVI Style Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A darling petite mirror from France created in the 19th century that would be perfect in a powder or dressing room. An eagle crowned with laurel perches atop the whole with drapery s...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Mirror, Mercury Glass, Glass
A Federal Mahogany Mirror with Eagle Motif, American ca. 1820
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Federal Mahogany Mirror with Gilt Eagle Crest and Bronze Dore Accents.
Category
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Mahogany, Giltwood
Northern Italian Hand-Carved Mirror in the Baroque Manner
Located in New York, NY
Baroque-style Northern Italian Hand-Carved Mirror
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood, Glass, Mirror
'Ice Queen' Vanity Mirror in Mint Matt Green Glass
By EXPERIMENTAL
Located in Riga, LV
'Ice Queen' vanity / make-up mirror in mint green mouth-blown glass setting on a polished Verde Antigua marble base on soft glides. Thick blown glass she...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baltic Minimalist The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Marble
Giltwood Gesso Wall or Console Mirrors, Beveled Mirror, Circa 1930s
Located in Stamford, CT
French Manner Giltwood and Gesso Wall or Console Mirrors. Italian Made.
Each of rectangular form having scroll and floral decorated framed around a beveled clean mirror...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Louis XV The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gesso, Mirror, Giltwood
Pair of Square Maccasar Faux Art Deco Style Wall / Console Mirror
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of 40inch square Maccasar Faux Art Deco style wall / console mirror. Two pair are available. The center concave panel. This listing is for one pair.
ZAX.
Category
1990s Art Deco The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror
Pair of Italian Painted and Giltwood Mirrors-Serge Roche Inspired
By Sirmos, John Dickinson, Dorothy Draper, Serge Roche, Maison Jansen
Located in Houston, TX
Stunning pair of painted and giltwood mirrors-Italian Serge Roche or Dorothy Draper inspired, circa 1940s. These fabulous gilt wood mirrors would look great above consoles, credenzas...
Category
1940s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Round Wall Mirror Uno & Östen Kristiansson Luxus Oak Leather Wood Sweden 1960s
By Luxus Vittsjö, Uno & Östen Kristiansson
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Round Swedish oak wood wall mirror with leather strap designed by renowned Uno & Osten Kristiansson and produced by Luxus in Vittsjö, Sweden 1960s. The handmade Scandinavian modern m...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Oak, Leather, Mirror
Circa 1820s Swedish Stripped Wood Empire Classical Style Wall Mirror
Located in London, GB
Wonderfully pale, this Swedish Empire style mirror circa 1820 has been stripped of its gilt, down to its pale soft tones beneath.
The mirrored glass has been replaced and some of its...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Glass, Giltwood
Pair of Venetian 18th-19th Century Rococo Dragon and Bird Mirrors and Consoles
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare, unique and dramatic pair of Rococo style marble topped giltwood triangular shaped consoles and complimentary slightly elliptical giltwood mirrors. The four pieces are believed to be northern Italian most likely from the Venetian region. The design and carving of the superstructure presented with bunches of grapes, vine leaves, branches and twigs. A winged dragon is shown swirling around and down the central leg of each console. The three legs are joined with a lower stretcher are all presented as vine tree trunks from which germinate more grape leaves and branches. They both have shaped red/grey mottled marble tops. The consoles show more signs of early to mid-18th century Rococo chinoiserie influence.
The mirrors were likely made slightly later in the 19th century but in the same Italian region, and appear to have a more Japanese influence in their design especially the hawk/eagle leaning over the top of the mirror. The giltwood frames of the mirrors are completely covered with gilded branches and leaves. On the left side of each mirror is a 'fantastical' dragon-bird, his huge wings spread out and his long tail clinging around the lower branches. He looks up into the eyes of the top hawk/eagle who appears ready to attack the dragon-bird. The whole is a real virtuoso display of carving and whimsical Rococo design.
Chippendale in England and his contemporaries were some of the first cabinet makers to design furniture in the Rococo style, the term taken from the French 'Rocaille' (rockwork), as in fantasy constructions such as grottoes. The style originated in France early in the 18th century when there was a reaction against the weighty classicism of the Baroque style. The consequent taste was for something lighter representing an escape from the stifling, self-conscious grandeurs of the Louis XIV period. As pioneered by designers such as Jean Berain and Pierre Lepautre...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Rococo Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood
French Design, Art Deco Style, Wall Mirrors, Faux Macassar Ebony, Glass, 1970s
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of Art Deco style faux Macassar square console or wall mirrors. Purchased from a hotel in France we have one dozen of these squarish wall or consol...
Category
Late 20th Century Hollywood Regency The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror
Antique 19th Century Fine Giltwood Mirror with Leaf Vine and Floral Carvings
Located in Stamford, CT
Antique 19th century fine giltwood wall / console or pier mirror with leaf vine and floral carvings. This finely gilt mirror is squarish in size and simply stunning in both quality a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Baroque The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Italian Burled Wood and Bronze Mirror After Gio Ponti
By Osvaldo Borsani, Paolo Buffa, Gio Ponti, Ico Parisi, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Located in Houston, TX
Stylish Italian Gio Ponti inspired burled wood and bronze mirror in the Art Deco style. Featured mirror is geometric in form with interesting curved cor...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Bronze
Regency Dressing Mirror, Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills Tessellated Stone
By Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills 1, Maitland Smith
Located in Chattanooga, TN
This pretty mirror is something fairy tales are made of. It boasts beautifully smooth and polished tessellated stone throughout and stands firmly on a stone carved pyramid. The multi...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Stone
Floating Console & Mirror by Osvaldo Borsani
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Hanover, MA
An exceptional and rare floating console & mirror by Osvaldo Borsani, Italy, 1946.
A pair available.
Authenticated by the Borsani Archives.
Mirror 47" tall x 38" wide
Console 16" hig...
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Marble
19th Century English over Mantel Regency Adam Style Pediment Mirror
Located in Southampton, NY
19th century English Regency over Mantel Adam style mirror having and architectural form with a pediment on top. Hand gesso and carved with classical motives of urns, swags, bows and...
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gesso, Mirror, Wood
1870s Victorian Gold Pier Mirror Brooklyn Brownstone Marble Shelf
Located in New York, NY
This Victorian gold pier mirror with a hand carved Jenny Lind top and white marble shelf was originally in a 1870s brownstone parlor in on 6th Ave in Brooklyn, NY. There are two area...
Category
1870s American Victorian Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Large Pair Italian Midcentury Oval Mirrors Faceted Crystal Glass Fontana Arte
By Cristal Arte, Fontana Arte
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Rare large pair of Italian Midcentury oval mirrors with faceted crystal glass and attribution to Fontana Arte or Cristal Arte, Italy around 1950s. The reverse with cardboard and patinated brass hangers for vertical or horizontal installation. The two beauties measure each 77,5 cm / 30.51 inches tall, 47 cm / 18.50 inches wide and 1 cm / 0,39 inches deep. They stay in great original vintage condition, minor wear consistent with age and use. They are an highlight and an upgrade for any midcentury design interior and would perfectly fit to a pair of modern consoles...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Crystal
Large Palm Foliate Mirror by Sirmos
By Sirmos, Serge Roche
Located in Hanover, MA
Large scale wall or floor mirror in cast plaster foliate palm leaves by Sirmos. In the style of Serge Roche. Finished in gloss black enamel.
Category
1960s American Hollywood Regency Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Vintage Italian Gold Giltwood Chinoiserie Japanned Rococo Console Wall Mirror
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Italian giltwood chinoiserie Japanned carved console wall mirror. Item features lack and gold gilt accents, chinoiserie "Japanned" paint d...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Chinoiserie The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Glass, Wood
Oscar Bach Attr. Bronze and Onyx Top Red Console Hall Table with Figural Mirror
By Oscar Bruno Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine neoclassical motif bronze console table with matching wall mirror attributed to decorative artist Oscar Bach. The table sits on claw feet rising into tapered legs with figural partial nude female...
Category
Early 20th Century Neoclassical The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Labarge Gold Carved Giltwood French Louis XV Rococo Large Console Wall Mirror
By LaBarge
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large 72" gold carved giltwood French Louis XV / Rococo style wall mirror by Labarge from the late 20th century, Made in Italy. Item features a substantial hand-carved frame with orn...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Rococo The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
Italian Hollywood Regency Gold and Silver Giltwood Mirror after Dorothy Draper
By Dorothy Draper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Elegant Italian Hollywood Regency gold and silver giltwood mirror after Dorothy Draper. This stunning vintage mirror features a scallop carved ...
Category
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique American Empire Walnut Leaf Carved Pier Wall Console Mirror
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique American Empire Walnut Leaf Carved Pier Wall Console Mirror. Circa 19th Century. Measurements: 38" H x 22" W x 4.5" D
Category
19th Century Empire Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Walnut
Signed Round Wall Mirror Vittsjö Östen Kristiansson Oak Wood Leather, 1960s
By Uno & Östen Kristiansson, Vittsjö
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Signed round Swedish brown oak wood wall mirror with leather strap designed by renowned Uno & Östen Kristiansson and produced by Vittsjö möbel in Sweden circa 1960s. The handmade Sca...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Leather, Mirror, Oak
French Parcel Gilt Wall Mirror in Hand Forged Iron
Located in Barcelona, ES
Parcel-Gilt wrought iron oval mirror with scroll and leaves details, France, 1940s.
Beautiful design and terrific aged patina showing rests of the orgininal gold leaf gilding with g...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf, Wrought Iron, Iron
French Gilt Carved Wood Floral and Cherub Wall Mirror. Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
French gilt carved wood wall mirror with centered crest medallion, flanking cherubs perched on acanthus carved plinths, surrounded by molded edge with rope, floral, and beaded moti...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
English Classical Federal Gilt Carved Wood and Gesso Wall Mirror, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English classical Federal gilt carved wood and gesso wall mirror with flying angelic figures, chariot, warrior and lion motif, Corinthian fluted side columns and original three panel...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
French Gilt Carved Wood Cherub Wall Mirror. Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
French gilt carved wood wall mirror with centered crest medallion, flanking cherubs perched on acanthus carved scrolled decorative work and molded foliage border. Mirror retains the...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Russian Gilt Carved Wood and Gesso Arched Cornice Lapis Wall Mirror, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Russian gilt carved wood and gesso wall mirror with an arched painted lapis cornice, flanking fluted acanthus columns, and decorated with lambs tongue, bell flower, interior bead wor...
Category
1780s Russian Regency Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gesso, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
French Carved Wood & Gilt Cherub Acanthus Wall Mirror. Circa 1820.
Located in Hollywood, SC
French carved wood & gilt five paneled wall mirror with center floral basket, ebonized cherubs, and acanthus carved floral corners. Early 19th Century
Category
1820s French Louis Philippe Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf
English Chippendale Mahogany & Gilt Prince Of Wales Wall Mirror . Circa 1760
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Chippendale mahogany & gilt carved wall mirror with Prince of Wales cartouche , broken pediment , egg & dart border , flanking graduated bell flowers, and acanthus carved mo...
Category
1760s English Chippendale Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf
French Gilt Wood & Gesso Foliage Swag Medallion Crest Cherub Wall Mirror, C 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
French gilt wood and gesso foliage swag medallion crest cherub wall mirror with interior bead work, ribbon border, and lower flanking acanthus motif...
Category
1810s French Louis Philippe Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gesso, Mirror, Giltwood
French Silver Gilt and Gesso Cherub Gallery Foliage Wall Mirror, Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
French silver gilt and gesso foliage wall mirror with a central arch cherub playing flute, flanking galleries with urn finials, and decorative foliage medallion borders. Mirror retai...
Category
1790s French Louis XVI Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Silver Leaf
French Gilt Carved Wood Floral Wall / Mantel Mirror
Located in Hollywood, SC
French gilt carved wood wall / mantel mirror with centered floral cartouche, original glass, and paneled back. All original. Dealers please call for trade price.
Category
19th Century French Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
1780s Louis XVI Pareclose Giltwood Mirror
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A truly exceptional late 18th century French Louis XVI parclose, or cushion, mirror, in an elaborate, richly carved giltwood frame. This rectangular mirror is embellished on all four...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
19th Century George III Style Carved Mirror after a design by Thomas Johnson
By Thomas Johnson, London 1
Located in London, GB
A George III style carved giltwood mirror
After a design by Thomas Johnson
Of grandiose proportions, the central oval glass plate built up in a concentric arrangement of mercury ...
Category
Late 19th Century English George III Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Mirror
18th Century George III Carved Mirror in the Manner of Thomas Johnson
By Thomas Johnson II
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century British George III Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Giltwood, Mirror, Wood
Very large Italian giltwood mirror carved in the Baroque style
Located in London, GB
Very large Italian giltwood mirror carved in the Baroque style
Italian, 19th Century
Height 254cm, width 168cm, depth 11cm
This very lar...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Pair of Large Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirrors
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of large carved giltwood and Gesso mirrors.
Each mirror has an arched mirror plate framed by foliate carved borders.
Possibly Italian or Austrian, circa 1870.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Giltwood
Art Deco Console Table with Matching Mirror Attributed to Oscar Bach
Located in New York, NY
Stunning Italian wrought iron console table with matching mirror. Lovely filigree pattern with round brass ornamentation. Some scrat...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Wrought Iron
Mother of Pearl Inlay Mirror
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Beautiful mirror made of mother of pearl inlay, beveled mirror, could use horizontal or vertical.
Great elegant mirror for any room.
Actual mir...
Category
20th Century The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
19th Century George II Style Pier Glass in the Manner of Matthias Lock
By Matthias Lock
Located in London, GB
A George II Style Pier Glass in the manner of Matthias Lock
Of rectangular form, constructed in giltwood and gesso, elaborately carved incorporating f...
Category
Mid-19th Century English George II Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood, Wood
A Large 18th Century George I Gilt-Gesso Pier Glass, Attributed to John Belchier
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A Large and Important George I Gilt-Gesso Pier Glass, Attributed to John Belchier, Circa 1725. England.
Divided by the original arched and rectangular soft bevelled mirror plates within a gadrooned and foliate-carved border surmounted by an impressive foliate crest, flanked by profusly carved scrolling acanthus wings above a punch decorated carved frieze.
Provenance
Clopton Hall, Rattlesden, Suffolk
John Belchier
‘The Sun’, south side of St Paul's Churchyard, London; cabinet maker (fl.1699-d. 1753).
This impressive mirror can be confidently attributed to the London cabinetmaker John Belchier based on similarities with two large pier glasses he supplied in 1723 and 1726 to John Meller at Erdigg in Denbighshire, Wales (National Trust; illustrated, Early Georgian Furniture, by Adam Bowett, p.292 plates 6:50-51). Originally destined for the Second Best Bedroom and Best Bedchamber respectively, they now hang in the Saloon. The earlier mirror shares comparable strapwork cresting with double scrolls centering a mask whilst the second incorporates bold, inward-curving scrolls carved in high relief along the upper border of the frame that overlap onto the top edge of the plate. These distinctive, palm-like scrolls appear on other mirrors attributed to Belchier, among them an example in the Untermyer Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York (46.116), and a girandole mirror also with a central winged cherub mask in the crest sold Sotheby's London, 20 November 2007, lot 13.
John Belchier (d.1753), possibly of Huguenot origin, was born in Oxfordshire and served his apprenticeship with the London Joiners' Company from 1699-1707. By 1717 he was established at 'The Sun' in St Paul's Churchyard, London, where his trade bill described his activities as a supplier of 'All sorts of Cabinet Work, Chairs, Glasses, Sconces, & Coach Glasses’, and another trade bill indicated he ‘Grinds & Makes-up all sorts of fine Peer & Chimney Glasses and Glass Sconces, Likewise all Cabbinet Makers Goods’, suggesting mirrors and sconces were a particular specialty of his workshop. His most significant client was the London lawyer and Master of the High Court of Chancery John Meller (1665-1733) for his country estate at Erdigg near Wrexham, and in addition to pier glasses and sconces Belchier provided a magnificent carved and gilt wood State Bed in 1720 and is believed to have supplied two japanned bureau...
Category
18th Century English George I Antique The Brooklyn Edition 2017
Materials
Gold Leaf
