British Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Decorated with gilt chinoiserie decoration, with original engraved plate. English, c. 1710. Additional information: Dimension: Height: 151 cm, 59 1/2″ Width: 57 cm, 22 1/2″ Depth: 5...

This is a beautiful hand carved, gessoed and gilded George II mirror. Dating from the mid eighteenth century. This incredibly large mirror is stunning and actually downright imposing...

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 superb Irish George II white painted mirror. The carved architectural top with a central scallop shell, above a panel of panel swagged ribbons a...

Small Regency giltwood mirror With a moulded frame with central shell device and foliate swags, the mirror plate appears to be later in date an...

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...

A fine quality Mid-18th century Chippendale period oval carved giltwood Mirror having leaf canopy cartouche above vase with flowers. The Mirror with intricate “C” scroll flower & aca...

Antique gold pier mirror. Very appealing in its straight form and nicely decorated, this mirror is also quite narrow so it would work in a variety of settings or rooms where horizont...

Circa 1730 - 40 The rectangular bevelled plate within a gadrooned edge and egg-and-dart border, surmounted by a floral-carved broken pediment centred by a foliate cartouche, the p...

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...

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....

An early 18th century George I giltwood pier mirror with carved decoration and broken pediment. The original beveled rectangular mirror plate with rounded top corners is set within a...

Regency style mirror with painted and giltwood decoration.

Georgian mirror with gilded carved wood frame, 18th century.