Susanne Hollis Mirrors

A beautiful pair all carved wood and gilded. True pair with the birds facing each other with a bird crest flanked by trailing leaves over an oval mirror plate with carved gadrooned o...

A stunning George I style chinoiserie mirror, English, early 20th century in a gorgeous scarlet red, adorned with hand painted decoration featuring flowers, birds, figures and orient...

Large antique George III quality walnut wall mirror having a quality walnut fretwork moulded frame with gilt decoration and original mirror plate A superb piece in lovely origina...

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 pair of carved Giltwood looking glass in the Chippendale style. The frames formed of depicting lively Acanthus leaves

Very fine George I carved and gilt mirror, circa 1720, in the manner of John Belchier having an ostrich feather plume over tasseled central lambrequin, d...

Oval with beaded and reeded outer frame, outer mirror frame with mounted paterae and inner leaf tip molded frame and oval plate.

Introducing an Early George III Giltwood Mirror in the Chinese Chippendale design, a magnificent antique dating back to the early days of the George III era. This stunning mirror ex...

A carved giltwood Rococo mirror with excellent proportions, the cresting of a stylized acanthus carved with Rocaille with C-scrolls and S-scrolls decorating the sides and the bottom,...

With vase and floral finial and broken arch pediment over a mirror plate flanked by gilt carving of leaves, flowers and nuts. The bottom with gilded roundels and carved scrolled deco...

A fine George III giltwood and gesso wall mirror in the Chinese Chippendale style. The rectangular mirror plate is enclosed by a delicate frame embellished with c scrolls and trailin...

A Fine George III Giltwood Mirror 18th Century the rectangular mirror plates surrounded by a carved motif frame with a central eagle flanked with flowering garlands and on either s...