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Period: Early 18th Century
Very Rare early 18th Century Period French Louis XIV Giltwood Mirror with Birds
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a special and rare find. This Louis XIV period 1700-1720s era mirror is done in a gorgeous original gold leaf finish and intricately carved with birds, floral arangements and...
Category
French Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
Early George II Carved & White Painted Mirror
Located in London, GB
An Early George II Carved & White Painted Mirror
The oval plate in pierced frame carved with acanthus, ‘c’ scrolls and confidently executed foliate detailing, with pierced scallop a...
Category
George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Caminiera. Torino, Inizio XVIII Secolo
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
Caminiera dorata riccamente intagliata, cornice d’appoggio e montanti laterali sporgenti a doppia cornice con specchi sormontati da cimase architettoniche intagliate. Al centro impon...
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Italian Other Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Fabulous Italian Period Baroque Tall Mirror W/Thick Leaf-Carved Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fabulous Italian Barocco carved and gilt wood mirror from the turn of the 17th and 18th century. This antique pier mirror from Italy has a nice 9 inch thick surround, which has bee...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Wood
A Highly Decorative Pair of Queen Anne Mirrors
Located in Southall, GB
A pair of highly decorative hand carved and gilded walnut frame mirrors. Featuring a crest with floral gilded carving and elaborate ribbon gilding around the glass. These mirrors wou...
Category
European Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Walnut
Wall Mirror Swedish Walnut Baroque Brown Frame, Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Wall mirror Swedish walnut Baroque brown frame, Sweden. A wall mirror made during the Baroque mirror in Sweden. Frame made from walnut. Later but ol...
Category
Swedish Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Antique Neoclassical Lombardy Mirror '700
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
Neoclassical mirror in carved and partially lacquered and gilded wood, Lombardy last quarter 18th century. Medallion cymatium with love knot placed on top, made from ribbon and held ...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
18th Century George III Rococo Wall Mirror
Located in London, GB
A fine George III English Rococo period giltwood wall mirror, the frame carved with scrolling foliage and c scrolls. Small but perfectly formed!
English, c.1780
Provenance: the property of connoisseur Michael Godfrey.
Category
English Rococo Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Queen Anne Stone White Painted Carved Mirror
Located in London, GB
A Queen Anne Stone White Painted Carved Mirror
The beautifully proportioned frame, carved with a large scallop shell cresting, topped with carved fruits, foliage, and pomegranate, w...
Category
Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Stone
Early 18th Century Italian Carved Giltwood Mirror Depicting Four Seasons
Located in PARIS, FR
Early 18th century richly and profusely carved giltwood mirror depicting personnified allegories of the four seasons.
The giltwood frame is made of adjourned wood decorated with flowers and leaves forming acanthus leaves spandrels. The pediment is lavishly carved and adorned with scrolls, foliage and flowers. Four putti...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Queen Anne Period ‘All Glass’ Border Mirror (SN4951)
Located in London, GB
A Queen Anne Period ‘All Glass’ Border Mirror
A rare early 18th century pier glass, with slightly broad and grounded proportions, retaining the majority of original bevelled plates,...
Category
Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Glass
George 1 Red Japanned and Gilt Toilet Mirror
Located in Montreal, QC
A George I red japanned and gilt toilet mirror, the period plate in double arched and ovalo frame, the stand with fall front and fitted interior above a single shaped drawer en arbal...
Category
English George I Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Lacquer
Giltwood Overmantel Mirror, Early 18th Century
Located in London, GB
An Early 18th Century Giltwood Overmantel Mirror
The three split bevelled plates, within a gilded bead-and-reel and foliate carved border.
Additional information:
Dimensions: Heigh...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Attractive Late George I Giltwood Mirror
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An attractive late George I giltwood mirror, the rectangular frame enclosing a bevelled plate and surmounted by a broken S-scroll pediment, ce...
Category
English Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Giltwood Spanish Frame Mirror
Located in Hudson, NY
Spanish gilded frame with imitation antique mirror glass.
Category
Spanish Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Gold Leaf
English George II Giltwood Mirror in the Manner of William Kent, circa 1735
By William Kent
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A fine circa 1735 English early George II period mirror or looking glass in the Palladian manner of architect and designer William Kent (1685 - 1748), the carved wood frame in origin...
Category
English George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Queen Anne walnut pier mirror c.1710 Circa 1710 A fine and rare Queen Anne perio
Located in Folkestone, GB
A fine and rare Queen Anne period walnut and gesso framed pier mirror in delightfully original condition including the murcurial glass and back boards.
This fine mirror is made of tw...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
Period French Regence Giltwood Mirror, circa 1720
Located in Dallas, TX
This rare period Regence giltwood mirror dates to circa 1720. Its mirror is original with the often desired loss of silvering to the glass. The ornamentation is representative of the...
Category
French Régence Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Very Rare Carved Gilt Gesso Dressing Mirror, circa 1710-1720
Located in Lymington, GB
A very rare carved gilt gesso dressing mirror. Queen Anne / George I-period, ca 1710-20.
Decorated all over with the original finely carved gilt-gesso surfaces with typical circular punched reserves.
The hinged fall - of what one might refer to as the 'table bureau' section - reveals a shaped, fitted interior, gilded and japanned (''lacquered'') in black with red.
Some external carved surfaces show very minor areas of wear revealing the authentic bole and gesso ground. Overall in superb condition.
H: 39 1/2’’ (100 cm)
D: 12 1/2’’ (31.5 cm)
W: 17 3/4’’ (45.5 cm).
Reminiscent of the work of London-based James Moore (ca 1670-1726), a supreme exponent of the art of cut gesso and gilding.
This dressing table mirror is possibly unique in this form, and as such has survived some 310 years in remarkably original state.
It may have been part of a suite of furniture, would have been extremely costly, and very much the reserve of the aristocracy and wealthy in the early part of the 18th century.
For documented pieces by James Moore visit the Royal Collection Trust.
Wikipedia: James Moore (furniture designer).
James Moore (circa 1670 - October 1726) was established at Short's Gardens, St. Giles-in-the-Fields. He was in partnership with John Gumley from 1714 and, unlike his partner, did not advertise - the sole published reference to him being a notice of his death in The Weekly Journal or The British Gazetteer. As Royal cabinet-maker he supplied walnut and mahogany furniture for the Royal Household, the Royal Yacht, and the King's servants and mistresses, as well as the rich gilt-gesso work for which he is best known.
Moore is especially renowned for gilt-gesso furniture: tables; looking glass frames; and candle stands. A pair of gilt-gesso side tables bearing the crowned cypher of George I in The Royal Collection, and the pair of candle stands en-suite are incised with his name - an unusual practice at the time. At Erddig, such furniture by Moore can be linked to surviving bills and receipts from James Moore and John Belchier, 1722-26.
Gilt-gesso furniture is also encountered in fine Louis XIV and other European furniture of the period.
Literature:
Ralph Edwards CBE FSA 'The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture', Hamlyn, London (Fourth Impression 1972) ill. 5, p. 363. One of a pair of looking glasses by James Moore, 1720. Erddig, Denbigh. The crest is reminiscent of that upon our dressing mirror, which we are offering here.
Kreisel, Heinrich, 'Die Kunst Des Deutschen Mobels', CH Beck, Munchen (1970) ill. 345, p. 347 - note similarities in the treatment of the top of the crest. This mirror was last seen in the collection of Augsburg Castle.
Synge, Lanto, 'Great English Furniture', London (1991) p. 52.
Symonds, R. W., 'A Royal Scrutoire', Connoisseur (June 1940) pp. 233-236.
Symonds, R. W., 'English Gesso Furniture', The Antique Collector, Vol. XXVII (August 1956) p. 140.
'A Golden Cabinet...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century Irish Georgian Gilt Broken Pediment Mirror
Located in Long Island City, NY
This early 18th century Irish George I wall mirror is topped by a broken pediment with a shell and acanthus leaf cartouche. The shaped apron is adorned...
Category
Irish George I Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
George II Walnut and Gilt Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine early Georgian walnut and parcel gilt mirror, the scalloped crest with inset carved gesso and gilt scallop shell over molded frame surrounding original shaped and beveled m...
Category
English George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood, Walnut
Antique gilded mirror 18th century
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Antique 18th century gilt mirror, Made in Italy.
Extraordinary carved and gilded gold-leaf mirror, 18th-century Central Italy. The mirror is completely in original patina of the per...
Category
Italian Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Queen Anne Walnut Mirror Circa 1715
Located in Hastings, GB
A Fine Queen Anne narrow framed walnut mirror with carved cresting and original mirror plate. In superb original condition with the original oak back.
Small areas of foxing to th...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Baroque Mirror, 1st Half 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
A grand Baroque mirror from the first half of the 18th century. The frame features a black lacquered exterior adorned with applied, hand-carved, and gilded decorations in the form of...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Wood
18th Century Louis XIV Italian Gilt Frames Pair of Oval Small Frames From Rome
Located in Milano, MI
From Italy Rome, a unique Louis XIV Pair of 1700s Italian Giled Terracotta Frames, they are almost a pair of similar form and age but with slight differences. The two lovely small oval frames were probably made for framing oval miniatures, they are empty now, come from a private Italian collection and can be used as mirrors. They are in good condition consistent with age, they are older than 300 years, with old restorations and minor losses in a few curls and small felures. See, closed-up picture details. It is more common to find these kinds of antique small frames...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Terracotta
English Palladian Overmantel Mirror of Impressive Scale
Located in Greenwich, CT
A fine early 18th Century carved Georgian Palladian mirror, the overscale cartouche flanked by swan neck pediment having egg and dart carved molding w...
Category
English Palladian Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Pine
18th Century French Régence Period Giltwood Carved Mirror in the Baroque Style
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An early 18th century French giltwood mirror from the Régence period in the Baroque style. The arched rectangular mirror plate is set within...
Category
French Régence Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
French Period Regence Mirror
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Charming French period Regence mirror.
Category
French Régence Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Wood
A Fine George I Gilt Gesso Girandole Wall Mirror
Located in Reepham, GB
A fine early 18th century Gilt Gesso wall mirror, the frame with shells at the apex and apron, raised burnished strap work and scrolling vines on a contrasting stamped ground. Retain...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Gesso
Georgian Walnut Dressing Table Mirror
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality And Very Attractive, Early 18th Century, George I Period. Walnut Dressing Table Mirror, Having Elegant Frame Enclosing Replacement Mirror Plate, Over Superbly Figured Three Drawer Box...
Category
English George I Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
George I Painted and Gilt Wall Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
A very pretty and rare painted Georgian wall mirror, circa 1720, with the original foxed mercury plate. Decorated with floral motif and scrolls, edged in gilt.
Backboards are orig...
Category
English George I Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Baroque Carved Giltwood Mirror with Original Plate, Denmark, circa 1700
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Exquisite Danish Baroque, circa 1700, mirror or looking glass having carved giltwood frame with dramatic foliate cresting and rectangular cushion-frame with foliate and seashell moti...
Category
Danish Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Mercury Glass
Queen Anne Giltwood Split Plate Mirror
Located in Hastings, GB
Circa 1710 large Queen Anne Giltwood mirror, shaped rectangular split plate in a leaf-carved moulded frame and scrolled leaf-carved cresting with inset griffin, flanked by finials. T...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Italian Louis XIV Period Faux Marble Painted Mirror, early 1st quarter 18th cen.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Of rectangular form and having an outer molded edge and a double molded inner edge, the central portion of the frame is hand painted to resemble marble, now fitted with a modern 1/4”...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Fir
A George I Giltwood Pier Mirror
Located in London, GB
An early 18th century giltwood pier glass with finely carved cresting, punched decoration to the frame, retaining the original mercury mirror plate.
Category
English George I Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
Early 18th Century Italy Pair of Engraved Gilded Wall Mirrors 3 Candles Holder
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an exquisite pair of gilded, sculpted and carved wall mirrors with iron candle holders.
This pair of elegant wall mirrors hail from the Early 18th Century, from Lucca, Tuscan...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Iron
Italian Piemonte LXIV Period Carved Giltwood & Ebonized Mirror Early 18thCentury
Located in Atlanta, GA
The rectangular ebonized frame having an outer molded edge, the interior adorned with giltwood carvings in circular scroll forms, the inner molding also giltwood, mirror plate is mod...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
A fine early 18th C triple-plate George II carved giltwood framed overmantle
Located in Reepham, GB
A fine early 18th Century triple-plate George II carved giltwood framed overmantle mirror of horizontal form with acanthus leaf, floral and foliate borders and scrolled sides housing...
Category
George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Early 18th Century George II Period Gilt Gesso Mirror
Located in London, GB
A fine and impressive early 18th century George II period gilt gesso mirror with beveled plate, having leaf carved central carved cartouche and scrolled pediment above leaf and drape...
Category
English George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Mirror
Period Louis XIV Giltwood Mirror, circa 1700 Venice, Andrea Brustolon School
By Andrea Brustolon
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Abuot this mirror
Mirror attributable to the school of Andrea Brustolon
This Louis XIV period mirror features rich and diffuse elegantly carved moti...
Category
Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Miroir Louis XIV
Located in VILLENEUVE-LÈS-AVIGNON, FR
Miroir d'époque Louis XIV
Origine Italie - Toscane
Cadre en bois doré et miroir d'origine
Dimensions : 150x85
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
18th Century French Régence Giltwood Mirror
Located in Charleston, SC
This elegant 18th century Régence looking glass has carved giltwood with mirrored borders, circa 1715-1730. The carved frame has floral and scrolling elements laid over the mirrored ...
Category
European Régence Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Superb George I Giltwood and Gesso Carved Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George I giltwood looking glass, the eagle and foliate carved crest with punched ground surrounding an arched and shaped hollow beveled plate wi...
Category
English George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Mercury Glass
Italian, Piemonte, Rococo Period Carved Giltwood 2-Piece Mirror, 1stq 18th cen.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Of ornate design this mirror is in a fantastic state of preservation and features an inner rectangular frame with a series of moldings and the outer mirrored surface punctuated by gi...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Early 18th Century Spanish Baroque Gilt Wood and Polychrome Mirror
Located in Troy, NY
A very decorative gilt wood mirror frame, adorned with painted putti to the left and right, a putti head to the center top and monogram initials "AM" at the bottom center. Vigorously...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
Magnificent 18th Century Italian Sconce-Mirror
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Magnificent 18th century Italian sconce-mirror.
Category
Italian Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Large Early Louis XV Period Mirror, France c. 1725
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large late Regence/early Louis XV period gilt-wood mirror with gilt-wood richly carved frame in the exuberant Rococo style. The crest with what appears to be a stylized poppy flowe...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Early 18th Century Irish George II Giltwood Mirror
Located in Essex, MA
Early 18th Century Irish George II Giltwood Mirror. Carved Rococo with foliate and fruit. Original gilding with wear. Original beveled mirror in magnificent oxidized state.
Category
Irish George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
French Regence Period Mirror
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very beautiful Regence period - early 18th century Mirror. Beautifully crafted in giltwood with its original mercury glass mirror. A st...
Category
French Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Early 18th Century Silver Gilt Oval Mirror
Located in Reepham, GB
A stunning, well proportioned 18th Century Silver Gilt Oval Mirror with old process mercury mirror plate.
Carving to top, bottom and either si...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Silver Leaf
Queen Anne Black Lacquered Toilet Mirror with Miniature Bureau Base
Located in Folkestone, GB
A fine and rare early 18th century Queen Anne period black Jappanned dressing table mirror witn shaped arched top above the original murcury plate with bevelled edge, supported on tw...
Category
European Queen Anne Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Lacquer
Mirror Wall Brass Repousse Baroque Flemish Lion Mask Acanthus Scroll Flowerhead
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The central bevelled original plate with some foxing surrounded by a stylized border of acorns and flowerheads. Surrounded by four canted, bevelled sections of original mirror plate ...
Category
Belgian Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Brass
Early 18th Century French Regence Period Carved Gilt Mirror
Located in Middleburg, VA
Early 18th Century French Regence Period Carved Gilt Mirror. Extraordinary quality with arched floral top centered on a child playing music flanked by two large carved Phoenix. And i...
Category
French Regency Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Italian antique octagonal wall mirror in green wood with golden profiles, 1700s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian antique octagonal wall mirror in green wood with golden profiles, 1700s
Octagonal wooden wall mirror. The structure is painted in pastel green with rounded golden profiles. I...
Category
Italian Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
A Rare 18th Century George II Carved Cut Gesso and Giltwood Mirror, Circa 1730
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The acanthus egg and dart-carved swan neck pediment is surmounted with a carved armorial cartouche flanked by opposing C scrolls on an egg and dart plinth, leading down to the acanth...
Category
English George II Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Giltwood
French Early 18th Century Régence Vase and Birds Cresting Giltwood Mirror
Located in Berlin, DE
French Early 18th Century Régence Vase and Birds Cresting Giltwood Mirror
An early 18th century Régence giltwood mirror with a rectangular plate within an arched frame adorned with ...
Category
French Régence Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Beautiful Portuguese Mirror Early 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Beautiful Portuguese Mirror Early 18th Century
Frame in rosewood with gilded carvings.
Signs of use for the age
Dim.: 107 x 50 cm
good condition
Category
Portuguese Renaissance Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Wood
18th Century Baroque Mirror
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful possibly Swedish gilt wood baroque and original condition mirror of large proportions. The large mirror glass is original with faceted edges and has a beautiful color. Th...
Category
Swedish Baroque Antique Early 18th Century Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
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