Gesso Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Having a flat bottom and sides and top with convex form, the surfaces all decorated with gilt-gesso decorations consisting of friezes of foliate scrolls, neoclassical rosettes, and e...

French gilt wood and gesso foliage swag medallion crest cherub wall mirror with interior bead work, ribbon border, and lower flanking acanthus motif...

A Large Elaborate French Rococo Gilt Console Mirror Decorated with Leaves and Scrolls This is a superb ornate large Mirror it has a Gilt Wood Frame, it is made with carved wood and...

P0102 Fine XXth century French giltwood wall mirror, having original mirror plate with minor imperfections is gilded and moulded gesso frame with decorative floral corners to the top...

A Very Fine French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt-Wood and Gilt-Gesso Carved Ornamental Mantel Pier Mirror. The ornately decorated giltwood carved frame crowned with a shield meda...

A large French 19th-20th century Belle Époque Louis XV style giltwood carved trumeau mirror frame. The elongated carved frame crowned with a scrolled finial surmounted with flowers, ...

French Neoclassical Style Giltwood Wall / Console Mirror with Oval Artwork of a young maiden and her cherub. Finely cast gilt gesso wall mirror. Diminutive in form with carved frame...

Tall Gilt Console Mirror with Shelf This is a very lovely piece, the mirror has an elaborate crest to the top of the very attractive frame A really handsome pair in good conditio...

0234 attractive French wall mirror, having original bevelled edge glass in moulded and flower carved gilded frame with floral swags on a olive green board and gilded bow to the top. ...

The carved giltwood crossed boughs of branches that form the frame of this looking glass are decorated with oak leaves and acorns which are held at the ...

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 ...

A Regency design silver giltwood oval anthemion decorated looking glass mirror of large proportions. We are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time.

A pair of rectangular Greek key, egg and dart decorated classical Grand Tour inspired overmantel mirrors in an aged Gesso finish. We are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time.

Monumental and beautiful American Art Nouveau gold gilded looking glass of rare form and size. Circa 1905-10, likely New York City, and in excellent condition. Retains the original g...

K0606 A good 19th century gilded pier mirror or wall mirror, having original glass with some foxing in arched frame with moulded edge and rope carved decoration. This antique consol...

K0467 Beautiful French, cream and gold leaf wall mirror, having original bevelled edge glass with some foxing in beaded and shaped frame with shell and floral centre crest to the top...

Mid Century Tutankhamun Inspired Wall Mirror This is a large and very attractive piece, taking its inspiration for the 1960s enthusiasm for all things Egyptian The tall mirror is f...

Fantastic maximalist mirror of the utmost quality. Custom made with no expense spared. Made from carve wood with silver and gold leaf. The age glass made with perfection. Please not...

18th century Irish looking glass made with gilded gesso and glass moldings. It is a highly unusual and rare fine. The majority of these mirrors never survived the test of time but th...

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...

This highly decorative large mirror has a carved central crested pediment flanked by griffins. The open mirrored side panels, combined with the large central shaped plate give a grea...