George III Nelson Commemorative Over-Mantle Mirror

This attractive mirror retains all its original plates including the bevelled central plate and the six long and four square mirrors which surround it. The gilt frame has a stepped c...

An attractive late George I giltwood mirror, the rectangular frame enclosing a bevelled plate and surmounted by a broken S-scroll pediment, ce...

A large pair of handed Napoleon III French oval mirrors. The cresting carved in wood and representing the arts with sheet music and instruments.

A large Nelson commemorative armorial pier glass. This George III giltwood mirror has a rectangular glass plate below a shaped cornice with a central coat of arms for Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) flanked by foliate tendrils on a painted black ground. The sides consist of paired tied-reed columns with palm frond capitals enclosing similar black painted panels of fruiting vine tendrils rising from classical vases. English, circa 1805. See Wick Antiques, Britain on the High Seas: From Nelson to Churchill, pp.76-77, for a very similar giltwood mirror from a group at Merton Place, the house in Surrey which the Admiral shared with his mistress Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815). They all featured his coat of arms surmounted by a baron’s coronet...

This oval white marble clock is applied with high quality bronze and ormolu mounts. The base encloses a French 8-day, twin barrel movement with a silk suspension and a count wheel strike on the bell. The ormolu dial has Roman numerals in blue and white enamels and is set within a rope border surrounded by naval panoplies and a coronet. The sides are embellished with putti with double fish-tails holding a long shell horn in each hand. On top of the clock is a bronze group of the dying Nelson collapsing into the arms of two sailors. With pendulum and key. Stamped on the back plate René à Paris. English, with a French movement, circa 1840. The bronze group of the falling Nelson being supported by two sailors is reminiscent of the positioning adopted by Samuel Drummond in his original version of The Death of Nelson...

This concave, circular shaving mirror is set in a moulded ebonized wood frame. The reverse has a printed trade label stating ‘J Abraham Optician & Mathematical Instrument Maker to hi...

American rectangular Hudson River School style fluted cove molded picture frame has been assembled with a period gilt oval spandrel and fitted with...

A brilliant 19th century giltwood over-mantle mirror, made in France circa 1870. The mirror is large and beautiful. The frame is ornamented with bundles of flowers that can be found ...

Antique Swedish paint decorated mirror. Over the Mantle or Wall Mirror of Rectangular form with full carvings on the wooden frame. Made in Italy.

A small Louis XVI style oval wall mirror, with gilt and floral accents.

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...

An English Chippendale period carved giltwood mirror, mid-18th century, ca 1755. Flanked, in a delicately shaped frame, by carved fruit, bold C scrolls and foliage: very typical of ...