David Neligan Antiques Mirrors

This Italian antique early 19th century round convex wall mirror featuring the original mercury mirror plate housed in a giltwood and ebonize...

A pair of Regency style giltwood and parcel-ebonized convex dolphin mirrors from the 21st century. Each mirror presents a distressed convex round mirror...

The frame of this fine, Italian, antique giltwood mirror references a style that was often used in designs for marquetry that was popular late in the reign of Louis XIV and pioneered...

Two pairs of large French modern neoclassical double arm metal wall lights with mirrored backs. The metal frame is pierced and the mirror has been mercuried. Priced and sold by the...

Exceptional English Regency style convex Girandole mirror made by Friedman Brothers decorative arts. Painstaking model of an 18th century hand-...

Antique large quality French painted wall overmantle mirror 19th Century. An impressive and very rare find, that would look amazing in the right location. No loose joints or woodw...

An exquisite 19th century French Louis XVI gilded mirror. The rectangular mirror is embellished with a magnificent crown featuring scrolls and leaves. The frame is finely hand carved...

A truly fabulous, important, rare and grand proportioned Regency giltwood convex mirror. The substantial frame carved with overlapping laurel leaves and berries, supporting to boldly carved acanthus candelabra with original cut-glass drip pans and gilt bronze nozzles. The gilding has aged to a deep rich colour. This fabulous and incredibly grand masterpiece retains its original convex mirror plate. One of the finest period convex mirrors ever made. The creation of convex mirrors became possible with the development of glass blowing. When the glassblower created a small glass bulb, they were filled with a metallic mixture of lead and tin while still hot. Once cooled, the bulbs were cut into smaller pieces and could be used as hand an pocket mirrors. They were used as fashionable pieces of jewelry and were often encased with gold, silver, ivory and tortoiseshell. The Empire circular convex mirror was introduced from France, where they had been made as early as 1756. This style of mirror became so popular under the heading ‘Mirrors’, in Sheraton’s 'Cabinet Dictionary' (1803), that they are the only style mentioned. Convex mirrors were said to “strengthen the colour and take off the coarseness of objects by contracting them”. Convex mirrors produced on a larger scale were both practical and intriguing. While they distort the image that they reflect, they also magnify light...

Late 19th Century Louis XV style giltwood mirror.

This French Louis Philippe period giltwood wall mirror from the mid-19th century is a stunning piece featuring an arched frame adorned with intricate floral motifs. The elegance of t...

This plain, carved, giltwood and ebonized convex looking round mirror glass has a moulded inner frame and a compound moulded outer frame with decorative gilded balls punctuating the ...

Very Large French 19th Century Louis Philippe Mirror/Overmantle This is a very Large Example of a Louis Philippe Mirror/Overmantel, the 3” moulded mirror frame has been given paint...