Adrian Alan Wall Mirrors

A Rare and Large Pair of Florentine Cartouche-Shaped Giltwood Wall Mirrors. Each surmounted by an elaborate pierced rocaille cresting of shells and trailing flowers. The frame wais...

A Pair of Italian Neoclassical Giltwood Pier Mirrors. Each mirror having a rectangular plate with husk-carved inner slip and mirrored outer borders divided by rosettes, the entrel...

A Fine And Decorative Italian Gilt Wood Mirror Carved With Allegorical Figures Of The Continents And The Seasons. The rectangular mirror plate has a la...

A Large and Very Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Mirror. This fine 'plum pudding' mahogany mirror has an arched pediment centred by a gilt-bronze basket issuing f...

A Large and Impressive Baroque Style Carved Giltwood Mirror. The rectangular frame elaborately carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls. The inner frame caved with channelled ribbon-...

A Magnificent Pair of George II Style English Carved Giltwood ‘Rococo’ Wall Mirrors After A Design By Thomas Johnson. Of large proportions, each mirror having a cartouche-shaped plate within a profusely carved and pierced branch-entwined frame with stylised acanthus foliate rocaille and ‘C’-scroll decoration, architectural motifs and running dogs, surmounted by an asymmetrical pagoda form cresting with rockwork spires and a seated rustic couple holding a basket, flanked by confronted Ho-Ho birds, with a conforming asymmetrical apron of acanthus and waterwork icicles centred by a perching bird. This magnificent and ornate pair of English wall mirrors or ‘pier glasses’ are refined and reduced from a design by Thomas Johnson (1723–1799) first published in 1756 and included in his ‘Collections of Designs’ (1758), plate 4, and republished in his ‘One Hundred and Fifty New Designs" (1761) as plate 22. Pier Glasses were designed to be placed on the wall or 'pier' between windows; as well as forming part of a decorative scheme they provided an important functional use, creating a reversal of dynamic with the windows at night, reflecting and maximising the light given off by candles or oil lamps. Johnson’s asymmetrical design creates a sense of fluidity and lightness to the mirrors, employing ‘contraste’ in the placing or absence of elements, to create a stylised form, which through the dynamic tension of its constituent parts instils the mirrors with a sense of playfulness and vitality. In London throughout the 1740s and 1750s there developed a great enthusiasm for the whimsical Rococo style, and it rapidly became the height of fashion, popularised, and disseminated throughout the country and further afield by cabinetmakers’ 'Books of Prices', and 'Directories'. The second half of the 19th century saw a revival of the Rococo style in England and many designers and furniture makers turned once again to Chippendale’s ‘Director’ and designs by Matthias Lock and Thomas Johnson for inspiration, with fine examples based on modified designs or specific plates. Thomas Johnson’s designs, executed in a vigourous picturesque manner, are often inspired by the work of earlier French designers, transposing motifs taken from engraved ornament by Jean Bérain, Daniel Marot, William de la Cour, J. B. Toro and Francis Barlow...

A Large Napoleon III Carved Giltwood & Gesso Mirror. Grand in size and decoration, this impressive Napoleon III period overmantel mirror is designed in the Louis XVI style with an ...

A Pair of Louis XVI Style Carved Giltwood Mirrors. Each mirror with an arched mirror plate and corresponding frame carved with still leaf decoration and an arched pediment centred ...

A Pair of Venetian Rococo Carved Giltwood Mirrors. These mirrors have elaborate pierced strapwork crestings surmounted by a shell-shaped corona above a cartouche-shaped plate, the...

A Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style Giltwood Marginal Frame Mirrors. This fine pair of carved giltwood and geso mirrors each have an oval bevelled mirror plate framed by four mirrored s...

A Fine Pair of George III Style Carved Giltwood Mirrors. Each mirror has a rectangular bevelled mirror plate within a carved giltwood frame of acanthus and 'C'-scrolls, surmounted b...

A fine Tall giltwood trumeau mirror with figural uprights. This impressive and tall trumeau mirror has a shaped scrolling cresting above a painted panel depicting a nymph holding...

A Fine Florentine Carved Giltwood Mirror. This impressive carved giltwood mirror has a waisted cartouche shaped bevelled plate, within a conforming...

An unusual Carved Giltwood mirror, Possibly Scottish. The arched cresting elaborately decorated with carved and gesso giltwood with a barons coronet ...

A large and impressive pair of Empire style gilt-bronze and burr, Amboyna Mirrors, By Maison Krieger. Each mirror is over 328 cm high (129 inches) and ...

A large carved florentine giltwood mirror in the Baroque Revival Style. This impressive mirror has a rectangular bevelled glass plate set within a scrolling acanthus carved frame...

A fine pair of carved giltwood and gesso mirrors with eagle crestings. Each mirror has a pierced oak leaf and eagle cresting above an arched mirro...

A fine Louis XIV style carved giltwood marginal frame mirror. This finely carved giltwood and gesso mirror has an oval mirror plate within a beaded surround, framed by finely etched marginal mirror plates, within a re-entrant rectangular frame with acanthus and foliate carving. The mirror is surmounted by a pierced acanthus and 'C'- scroll cartouche flanked by recumbent sphinx...

A fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood and gesso mirror. The pierced scrolling crest surmounted by ho-ho birds flanking a basket of fruit over a shaped central bevelled mirror pla...

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.

A Louis XV style marginal-frame giltwood mirror. The bevelled rectangular mirror plate is framed by marginal side plates, with reverse-cut stars, within a laurel, berry and acanth...

A fine North Italian, Baroque Revival, carved giltwood mirror allegorical of the seasons. This finely carved mirror has a rectangular mirror plate within a harebell running border...

A fine Dutch ebonized and repousse gilt-metal cushion mirror. The rectangular beveled mirror plate with ebonized frame and marginal borders, surmount...

A fine Napoleon III Carved giltwood oval Marginal frame mirror. This finely carved giltwood and gesso mirror has an oval bevelled mirror plate, marginal borders and an exuberant a...

A fine Louis XVI style marginal frame mirror. This finely caved giltwood and gesso mirror has a rectangular mirror plate framed by marginal borders of bevelled glass and surmounte...

A very large and finely carved George II style giltwood mirror. This large and impressive carved giltwood and gesso mirror is over 267 cm (105 inches) high. It is finely carve...

A large and impressive Louis XVI style carved giltwood and gesso mirror. At over 100 inches tall (260 cm) this impressive mirror is of large size and finely carved with a figural ...

A fine giltwood cushion mirror with etched side plates. French, circa 1880. The rectangular mirror plate is framed by marginal etched s...

A fine and impressive Napoleon III gilt bronze and ebony bevelled mirror. French, circa 1850. A fine and impressive Napoleon III gilt bronze and ebony bevelled mirror with cast...

A very fine carved giltwood mirror. German, circa 1860. The shaped moulded frame carved with wheat sheafs and entwined foliate forms, surmounted by an openwork rocaille cartouc...

A large Rococo style carved giltwood and silver gilt mirror. Possibly German, circa 1870. The arched mirror plate within a moulded re-entrant inner frame, flanked by an outer ...

A fine and tall Louis XV style carved giltwood mirror. French, circa 1870. This very finely carved mirror has an arched cresting expressively carved with acanthus ‘C’-Scrolls ...

A Large Regence Style Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirror. French, Circa 1860. This fine mirror is almost 2m in height. The arched mirror plate is framed by carved uprights with ...

A very fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood and composition marginal mirror. French, circa 1890. This fine mirror has a gadrooned, beaded and e...

A fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood mirror, the cresting carved with a portrait roundel of a young man in profile. This i...

A fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood mirror, the cresting carved with a portrait roundel of a young woman in profile. Frenc...