Jonathan Sainsbury Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Stunning Oval Venetian Style Mirror, Spain 1960s Elegant Venetian style Hollywood Regency oval mirror with iridiscent and mirror glass panels. This glamorous mirror featuring a doubl...

Stunning mirror in blazing gold color Murano glass, Venice. A mirror that alone will furnish your home environment. The mirror has a rear structure in wood, on which four Murano gol...

Elegant Venetian style Hollywood Regency oval mirror with iridiscent mirror glass panels. Spain, 1960s This glamorous mirror featuring a ...

Gorgeous flaming pink Murano glass mirror. A mirror that alone will furnish your home. The mirror has a wooden back structure, on which a series of Murano glass leaves are mounted t...

Spanish rococo style finely carved gold leaf giltwood mirror. A highly decorative finely carved Rococo style mirror with gold leaf finish and beautiful ...

An exceptional Antique mirror having a fine contrasting Mahogany and Gilt wood frame with carved accents. The mirror is topped with an extravagant carved Floral crest and features a ...

A pair of completely original, hand-carved and gilded, Italian, c. 1800 pier mirrors. Each featuring a spectacular crown consisting of a pierced, flower c...

Stunning mirror in blazing gold color Murano glass, Venice. A mirror that alone will furnish your home environment. The Murano furnaces create an indisputable timeless design, simple...

A very fine German pier mirror having a good color and finish. The frame made of walnut finished in a rich warm brown has mellowed to a very nice color. The carving though space is v...

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...

Biedermeier mahogany and crotch mahogany veneered pier mirror with cornice above a paneled and arched entablature. The entablature is supported by mahogany half columns which flank a looking glass above an architectural plinth...

A Rare George I Gilt-Gesso Pier Glass Mirror, Circa 1725. England. In the Manner of John Belchier The mirror has an elaborately carved gilt-gesso frame, which was a hallmark of luxu...