British Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

This carved gilt-wood mirror has a tightly designed Rococo frame in the style of George III. The vigorous acanthus leaf scrolls are entwined with trailing leaves and flowers and with...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

Sn4603, stylish Victorian floor standing or wall hanging mirror with original extensively foxed glass in rope decorated frame with large rope bow to the top and tassels to base. This...

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 carved oval mirror of Adam design with leaf carved outer frame and bead carved inner frame, the surrounding border glasses are punctuated by oval flower-head paterae. The cresting ...

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...

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...

Regency style mirror with painted and giltwood decoration.

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...

A 19th Century Octagonal Mirror With Repousse Metal Frame, Original Mirror Plate 60.5" x 49.5"

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