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  • Monumental English Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror, circa 1820
    Located in Lowestoft, GB
    A circa 1820 Regency gilt convex mirror of grand proportions and typically form. Ebonised reeded slip, applied gilt spheres and surmounted by an eagle perched with its wings sprea...
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    Antique 1820s English Regency Convex Mirrors

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    Mirror, Giltwood

  • Early 19th Century English Country House Pair of Iron & Glass Garden Cloches
    Located in Lowestoft, GB
    A extremely well cast pair of glass & iron garden cloches, all glass panels are original and in perfect order. Age related wear and discolouration to the paint and iron work. 19th...
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    Antique Early 19th Century British Early Victorian Planters and Jardinieres

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    Iron

  • Early 19th C English Country House Huge Bronze & Stained Glass Hall Lantern
    Located in Lowestoft, GB
    A wonderful early 19th century English hexagonal bronze hall lantern, of large proportions with cast and pieced foliage decoration. Each 120 degree angle has a elongated strip of d...
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    Antique Early 19th Century English George III Lanterns

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    Bronze

  • 19th C English Country House Double Fronted Teal & Auburn Dolls House
    Located in Lowestoft, GB
    A rather lovely and very original 19th century dolls house. Double fronted hinged front, opening to reveal six interior sections, with remnants of period wall paper. layers of origi...
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    Antique Mid-19th Century English Toys

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    Pine

  • 19th Century Red Maroon English Country House Leather Armchair
    By Howard and Sons
    Located in Lowestoft, GB
    A fine and original late 19th century maroon buttoned leather armchair. On turned front legs and typical squared back, all with their original brass castors. Areas of wear as you ...
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    Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Chairs

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    Leather, Oak

  • 19th C Pair of Large Optical Experimental Scientific Mirrors Concave & Convex
    Located in Lowestoft, GB
    A large pair of scientific optical mirrors, one concave the other convex. These where used in studies of optical sciences and in particular the study of the properties of light r...
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    Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Scientific Instruments

    Materials

    Brass

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  • English Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror, 19th Century
    Located in Charleston, SC
    This imposing Regency convex mirror is hand carved and gilded. The pediment has an eagle perched on a plinth flanked by foliage scrolls. The mirror frame is opened pierced craved wit...
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    Antique 19th Century English Regency Convex Mirrors

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  • Early 19th Century Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror
    Located in Dublin 8, IE
    Early 19th century Regency convex mirror, the plate of circular form set within reeded slip and ball decorated surround surmounted pair intricately carved pair of trumpets and star e...
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    Antique 19th Century Irish Regency Convex Mirrors

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  • Early 19th Century Monumental Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror
    Located in London, by appointment only
    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...
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    Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Convex Mirrors

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  • 19th Century English Regency Carved Giltwood Convex Mirror
    Located in Dublin, IE
    A very fine Regency period carved giltwood and Gesso convex mirror, the plate within a reeded ebonized slip with ball decoration surmounted by an Eagle pediment. It has sconces to ei...
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    Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Convex Mirrors

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  • Giltwood Convex Mirror 19th Century
    Located in Hudson, NY
    Regency carved giltwood convex mirror, circa 1820 in date. The convex mirror is surrounded by an ebonized elegant reeded slip and a giltwood moulded frieze with ball mounts. The car...
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    Antique 1810s Regency Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

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    Gold Leaf

    Giltwood Convex Mirror 19th Century
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  • 19th Century Carved Giltwood Convex Mirror
    Located in New York, NY
    Antique English Regency carved giltwood convex mirror, circa 1820 in date. The convex mirror is surrounded by an ebonized elegant reeded slip and a giltwood moulded frieze with ball ...
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    Antique 1820s Unknown Regency Convex Mirrors

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