British Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

An exceptional pair of mid-18th century English George III giltwood pier mirrors, circa 1755, in the manner of celebrated London cabinetmakers and designers William and John Linnell....

A superb 18th century Chinese Chippendale carved giltwood mirror of exceptional detail. The pierced foliate frame with climbing roses on architectural column elements of pagoda form,...

An Irish oval mirror with moulded parcel gilded and ebonised frame, applied with mirrored glass facets. Please note we are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time and that this ...

A design attributed to John Linnell. Each arched divided plate within shaped outer slips entwined with foliate branches and leaf scrolls. Each mirror is surmounted by a seated Chines...

A tall gold gilt and gesso English Regency Pier mirror glass. Very well and profusely decorated pediment, with columned uprights and capitals. Warm and soft patina and gilt work, mir...

An exceptional pair of Chinese Chippendale pier mirrors. Each mirror is surmounted by a Chinese figure below stylized pagoda roofs above Chinese Chippendale trellising. The uprights ...

An English Georgian period red japanned pier mirror retaining an old possibly original beveled mirror plate. The piece is decorated in in an elegant restrained fashion the pierced cr...

A carved gilt-wood Gothic design pier mirror inspired by the style and decoration of The Long Gallery at Strawberry Hill. Please note we are currently working to a 30-36 week lead t...

Each rectangular mirror plate within a finely carved gilt fretwork surround with a deep blue-painted ground and set below a period Chinese hand-painted silk scene depicting Court fig...

A Georgian pier mirror in walnut and Giltwood. The broken pediment top with scrolls and rosettes, gilt outer border with Kit Kat inner frame and bevelled glass. An old repair along t...

A finely carved Mid-18th Century Chippendale period giltwood Mirror having acanthus leaf & “C” scroll decoration throughout with fruit & flower pendants above central cartouche with ...

An exceptional and beautifully preserved rare pair of period George II looking glasses in the style of William Kent (1685-1748) with beveled mirror plates. The burled walnut tablet is bound by Greek eared-architraves with acanthus detailing and oak leaf and acorn garlands. The whole is surmounted by a graceful swan-neck pediment and a central pierced and carved cartouche...

A rare and exceptionally refined pair of George III period giltwood mirrors, executed circa 1780 in the sophisticated neoclassical manner of Robert Adam. Of elegant oval form, each p...

A carved gilt-wood pier mirror with cluster form columns supporting a carved Gothic foliate arch top, inspired by Robert Walpole’s library. Please note that we are currently working...

St Giles House Mirror, an exceptional hand carved wall mirror with Rococo and Chinoiserie elements. Shown with water gilded finish. The original now in the Gerstenfeld collection. P...

A design attributed to John Linnell. Each arched divided plate within shaped outer slips entwined with foliate branches and leaf scrolls. Each mirror is surmounted by a seated Chines...

A George III Giltwood Pier Mirror In the Manner of Thomas Johnson An exceptionally detailed design; the superb carved decoration housing a shaped rectangular plate and undulating mirrored borders; the inner frame closely tied to the outer frame and leading the eye around the mirror. The grandiose masterful carving incorporating C-scrolls, flowering branchwork, stylized icicles, acanthus leaves, and distinctive architectural follies and figures which firmly place this mirror within the canon of Johnson's greatest designs. The confident execution is a great testament to the technical prowess and artistic creativity of one of the greatest carvers and designers of the eighteenth century, circa 1760. Provenance Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Farmleigh, Co. Dublin, (1880?-1927); The Earls of Iveagh, Farmleigh, Co. Dublin & Elveden Hall, Suffolk (1927-2018). Thomas Johnson (1723-1799) Thomas Johnson was one of the most skilled carvers and furniture designers in Georgian England. Drawing inspiration from the Fables of Aesop, the rococo, China, and the idealised rustic life, his work is whimsical, exuberant and witty. Chippendale borrowed freely from his work. Johnson was a founder member of the 'Antigallican Society', a group who excoriated the French taste. In addition to its relation to Johnson's designs, this mirror also reflects the influence of Lock, the great master with whom he worked for a period. Lock published many sketches and pattern books, including A New Book of Ornaments for Looking Glasses in 1752, introducing several idiosyncratic features which Johnson would adopt such as the small decorative urns...

This Neo-classical style looking glass displays all the hallmarks of Robert Adam. The oval mirror plate is contained within a moulded frame carved with gadroons and beads divided by ...

+VAT. England, modern. Made to order. A very fine white shell mirror of large scale with cresting and scrolled sides and apron. The mirror plate b...

A George III style carved giltwood mirror After a design by Thomas Johnson Of grandiose proportions, the central oval glass plate built up in a concentric arrangement of mercury ...

A carved oval, gilt-wood mirror in the style of George III and the late eighteenth century. The moulded frame is enriched with carved guilloche decoration, flanked by an inner bead m...

Fine George I giltwood looking glass, the eagle and foliate carved crest with punched ground surrounding an arched and shaped hollow beveled plate wi...

A mahogany and giltwood neoclassic mirror. Portrait of Classic figure in oval at top with swags to frame. Applied urns as sides and lyre in center, all gilt as well as around mirror....

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...

English, ca. 1720 This impressive English George I period mirror, made circa 1720, is crafted from carved wood and carved gilded gesso. The vauxhall bevelled plate is enclosed withi...

An early 18th century giltwood pier glass with finely carved cresting, punched decoration to the frame, retaining the original mercury mirror plate.

Fine Regency Revival Giltwood & Bronze Egyptian Revival Pier Mirror This is an exceptionally striking and grand early-to-mid 20th-century Regency Revival giltwood and bronze pier mir...

A gorgeous 19th Century giltwood dressing or pier mirror of exceptional quality and in lovely original condition. The mirror glass plate is set within a finely hand carved, moulded ...

A fine Chippendale design foliate carved mirror with split glass surrounded by swags, scrolls and carved acanthus decoration.

A beautiful pair all carved wood and gilded. True pair with the birds facing each other with a bird crest flanked by trailing leaves over an oval mirror plate with carved gadrooned o...

A George I style carved gilt-wood and gesso looking glass. The mirror plate is in a leaf and shell carved moulded frame beneath a shaped cresting centred by a pierced plume on a moul...

A carved and gilt-wood mirror in the manner of William Kent and the Palladian style. The rectangular looking glass within a compound moulded frame has outset corners, flanked by trai...

Exceptional circa 1740 George II period giltwood looking glass or mirror of oval form after a design by William Kent having dynamic carved 'egg-and-dart' frame with gilt and ebonized...

1950’s Shaped Dressing Room Mirror. Nothing beats a good mirror and we buy them for the quality of the glass and the foxing, the level of deterioration in the mirror film that gives...

A carved, gilt-wood geometric Gothic design circular wall mirror inspired by the ceiling decoration by Robert Adam, from the formal drawing room set within Walpole’s Gothic villa. P...

A fine Chinoiserie design pier mirror with winged phoenix surmounting foliate and scroll work decoration. This mirror illustrates the genius of Thomas Johnson and his particular styl...

An impressively large English Georgian pier mirror, in giltwood, with later mirror plate. The frame decorated with a crest of Acanthus and flowers. which fall over the scalloped shou...

A pair of carved giltwood George III mirrors of Adam design with leaf carved outer frame and bead carved inner frame, the surrounding border glasses are punctuated by oval flower-hea...

The frame carved with scallop shell decoration, centred by a female mask crest above acanthus leaves and cornucopia to the sides. Please note we are currently working to a 30-36 wee...

PAIR OF REGENCY PARCEL-GILT PIER MIRRORS WITH GRISAILLE PAINTED PANELS England, circa 1810-30 74 7/8" H x 15 7/8" W x 1 5/8" D A finely executed pair of English Regency pier mirror...

An exceptional carved pier mirror, inspired by the Chinese Room of Claydon. The elaborate carved decoration following the style of Luke Lightfoot in the...

A very rare 19th Century giltwood dressing, hall or pier mirror of tall and narrow proportions and of exceptional quality. The shaped mirror glass plate is set within a finely hand ...

A very fine 19th Century giltwood hall mirror in the Adams design of tall proportions and exceptional quality. The stunningly hand carved moulded and fluted giltwood frame with beau...

Tri-Fold travel vanity or dresser mirror with beveled glass. The mirror can be free standing or hung on the wall in a way that the two side mirror pa...

Important pair of George III gilt wood pier mirrors of substantial scale, the breakfront crest with inset oval paterae over ribbed Corinthian columns with ribbon banding, the base si...

A carved gilt-wood pier mirror with classical urn and drapery decoration in the late 18th Century manner. Please note we are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time and that thi...

An Art Deco mirrored console by Fontana Arte Milano with original decorated glass depicting Diana the Huntress. Mirrored console over a gilt carved...

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...

George III Gilt Pier Mirror - with rectangular bevelled plate, with urn and eagle surmount, hung with ball and chain, and beaded frame - 14"w x 30"h

English Chippendale Mahogany Prince of Wales acanthus gilt wall mirror with a swan neck foliage medallion cartouche, exterior egg & dart borders, flanking oak leaves with acorns, int...

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...

Pair of George II Style Pier / Console Mirrors, Burr Walnut and Parcel Gilt Veneered with burr walnut and trimmed with giltwood and set with a swan's-neck pediment with a central cartouche-form finial, the mirror surround lined with carved giltwood, the cossetted corners with floral-carved drapes on each side, the lower edges serpentine. Nice parcel gilt and burr wood traditional mirrors...

A very fine 19th Century giltwood dressing or leaner mirror of grand proportions and exceptional quality. The mirror glass plate of rectangular form is set within a stunningly hand ...

An Important and Rare Pair of George III Carved Giltwood Mirrors England, Circa 1760-1770 A fine and rare pair of George III period giltwood mirrors in the Chippendale style at its ...

These small carved giltwood oval mirrors of Chippendale design illustrate the English Rococo period of the middle years of the 18th century. These small oval looking glasses are in ...

A very rare pair of 20th Century mahogany pier mirrors of exceptional quality, finely hand carved with gorgeously rich patination and fine grain. The bevelled mirror glass plate of ...

A traditional Chippendale mirror of a George III design. These carved giltwood oval mirrors have a molded frame carved with cabuchon and intertwined C-scrolls and acanthus leaf spray. It is available as standard in two sizes; large and small - listed below. hand carved mahogany frames with water gilded 23-carat gold leaf, standard with an antiqued glass pane...

A Rare George I Gilt-Gesso Pier Glass Mirror, Circa 1725. England. In the Manner of John Belchier The mirror has an elaborately carved gilt-gesso frame, which was a hallmark of luxu...

A very handsome early 19th century Regency Period cream painted & gilded console mirror. The frame showing an overhanging gilded architectural cornice surmounting a applied gilded an...

This rectangular giltwood looking glass mirror is carved in a light and open Rococo style frame. The mirror plate is set within vigorously drawn C-scrolls, acanthus leaves, flowers a...