Patrick Moorhead Antiques Mirrors

A Very Important Late 19th Century Rococo Style Giltwood and Gesso Mirror The entire frame exceptionally carved with heavy detail. The top centered with a large carved cherub and t...

A very fine and attractive pair of late 19th century wall / pier mirrors in the style of Thomas Chippendale, fitted with plain rectangular plates surrounded by a border of scrolling...

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

Pair of Chippendale style elaborate giltwood wall or console mirrors. The pair oval in form with a clean center mirror flanked by a finely carved carved frame of roses, floral design and scroll having full bodied winged birds perched on each side of each mirror. These large and impressive Italian mirrors are certain to make a statement in any room in the home. An archetype of the finest English design and craftsmanship, Chippendale style furniture originated with cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale in the 18th century. The style was immediately popular and adopted across Europe and America – and it continues to be a favored style for sophisticated and traditional interiors today. Drawing inspiration from Gothic, Rococo and Chinese design, original-inspired Chippendale furnishings are often variable in their overall aesthetic but are consistent in their aura of luxury and elegance. Essential to Chippendale-style furniture is the use of fine hardwoods, such as mahogany and walnut, and often the presence of a dark finish, which emulates old-world, monarchal designs. Stylistically, refined details like yoked chair...

18th century Italian giltwood mirror with hand carved eagle, roses, leaves and other details. The carving around outer perimeter of the mirror to really highlight the details. Appear...

This plain carved giltwood and ebonized convex mirror has a molded inner frame and a compound molded outer frame with decorative gilded balls punctuating the painted ground. Measure...

Regency convex mirror circa 1815 with slightly worn through water gilding and original mercury glass which is in very good condition, the pine back panel has its original maker’s pap...

George III Chippendale style ebonized mirror.

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 stunning 19th century large French mirror with hand-carved and gold-leaf gilded wood frame, featuring an arched and pierced coping with deep scrolling and vegetal carving. Good con...

Circular reeded gilt wood molded frame with inner ebonized ring and convex mirror.

A very fine and impressive English Rococo 19th century Chinese Chippendale style figural gilt-wood carved over mantel or pier mirror in the manner of Thomas Johnson, after his collec...