Large Regency Gilt Pier Glass by Thomas Fentham

A fine Regency mahogany low table or stand; the pillars in simulated rosewood with brass collars and superb carved scroll feet with inset castors. Probably made to display an Arita bowl...

A Regency chair with finely painted chinoiserie decoration. Old metal braces - please see photo. Margaret Jourdain's - Regency Furniture illustrates a very similar chair: Fig. 94

Regency four-tier whatnot; elegant turned pillars surmounted by small finials; lovely variegated rosewood and a single drawer at the bottom; fine original condition.

A lovely quality small Regency draftsman's table in mahogany with Greek key ebony inlay; handsomely finished with three false drawers and one real, fitted drawer, the framed top with...

A good Regency rosewood canterbury: rare model with 2 drawers; the divisions in the form of an X supported by carved circular laurel wreaths; the t...

A George III Sheraton period demi-lune pier table in satinwood with rosewood crossbanding and boxwood & ebony stringing.

A very attractive regency period giltwood wall pier mirror having replaced rectangular mirror plate bordered by half turned spiral twist columns with attractive carved capitals.  

This rectangular pier mirror illustrates the transitional styles that bridge looking glass designs of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. The mirror plate is set between classica...

A large giltwood pier mirror in the Regency taste, the breakfront cornice with suspended balls above frieze with central panel, the plate flanked by barley twist columns. Dimensio...

A large and handsome American Federal Style mirror of very good quality in the Federal style, likely made in Italy in the second half of the 20th century. Clusters of colonnettes at ...

A large and striking Neoclassical style mirror crafted with gilt palmettes on the cornice and frieze with basket of flowers and leaves. The segmented half column supports turned with...

A Large and Important George I Gilt-Gesso Pier Glass, Attributed to John Belchier, Circa 1725. England. Divided by the original arched and rectangular soft bevelled mirror plates within a gadrooned and foliate-carved border surmounted by an impressive foliate crest, flanked by profusly carved scrolling acanthus wings above a punch decorated carved frieze. Provenance Clopton Hall, Rattlesden, Suffolk John Belchier ‘The Sun’, south side of St Paul's Churchyard, London; cabinet maker (fl.1699-d. 1753). This impressive mirror can be confidently attributed to the London cabinetmaker John Belchier based on similarities with two large pier glasses he supplied in 1723 and 1726 to John Meller at Erdigg in Denbighshire, Wales (National Trust; illustrated, Early Georgian Furniture, by Adam Bowett, p.292 plates 6:50-51). Originally destined for the Second Best Bedroom and Best Bedchamber respectively, they now hang in the Saloon. The earlier mirror shares comparable strapwork cresting with double scrolls centering a mask whilst the second incorporates bold, inward-curving scrolls carved in high relief along the upper border of the frame that overlap onto the top edge of the plate. These distinctive, palm-like scrolls appear on other mirrors attributed to Belchier, among them an example in the Untermyer Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York (46.116), and a girandole mirror also with a central winged cherub mask in the crest sold Sotheby's London, 20 November 2007, lot 13. John Belchier (d.1753), possibly of Huguenot origin, was born in Oxfordshire and served his apprenticeship with the London Joiners' Company from 1699-1707. By 1717 he was established at 'The Sun' in St Paul's Churchyard, London, where his trade bill described his activities as a supplier of 'All sorts of Cabinet Work, Chairs, Glasses, Sconces, & Coach Glasses’, and another trade bill indicated he ‘Grinds & Makes-up all sorts of fine Peer & Chimney Glasses and Glass Sconces, Likewise all Cabbinet Makers Goods’, suggesting mirrors and sconces were a particular specialty of his workshop. His most significant client was the London lawyer and Master of the High Court of Chancery John Meller (1665-1733) for his country estate at Erdigg near Wrexham, and in addition to pier glasses and sconces Belchier provided a magnificent carved and gilt wood State Bed in 1720 and is believed to have supplied two japanned bureau...