Pair Pier Mirrors with Églomisé Panels

New York, circa 1815-1820. Wood, gessoed and gilded, with mirror plate. 75 1/2 in. high, 44 1/8 in. wide (at the cornice), 8 1/2 in. deep (at the cornice). Condition: Some restorati...

American, third quarter of the 19th century. Pine, gessoed and gilded, with mirror plate. Measures: 81 ½ in. high, 59 ½ in. wide. Condition: Excellent. The gilding has been cleaned and very, very slightly inglided as necessary. The ball at the upper left was missing and has been replicated based upon...

One of the signature forms of the Neo-Classical period, the pier (or console) table received its name from its typical use against the wall, or pier, between two windows. Pier tables...

“I know of no other chair like the single [sic] ‘lyre back’ one. . . . I certainly recognize it as a Boston chair considering all the individual elements, but the combination is particularly elegant.” So wrote noted scholar of Boston furniture Page Talbott when a set of four chairs of this design originally surfaced in the 1980s. Although the existence of four chairs in a specific pattern might imply that the chairs were originally part of a larger set, no additional chairs of this form have appeared in the intervening years. The lyre became a popular motif during the Neo-Classical period, and is frequently encountered as the back splat of klismos chairs, in no example more familiar than in a group of Duncan Phyfe chairs...

Neoclassical carved and giltwood frame with églomisé ‘reverse hand-painted glass panels’ at the top, bottom and surrounding periphery, and having original period mirror. In beautiful...

American Sheraton gilt gesso tabernacle looking glass with eglomisé upper glass panel above a mercury amalgam looking glass. The turned columns support an entablature and cornice whi...

A stunning and intricately carved and gilded mirror with a crown of églomisé (reverse painted glass ) panels featuring the Greek goddess Demeter, flanked by a pair of cornucopias...

American tabernacle gilt pier mirror frame with eglomise landscape panel. The projecting cornice is supported by half columns on plinth corner blocks, joined by an ogee rail with gad...