1720s Pier Mirrors and Console

An Irish oval mirror with moulded parcel-gilded and ebonized frame, applied with mirrored glass facets. The mirror is available in a bespoke size i...

Very charming German 18th century period Rococo mirror. Beautifully carved with c-scrolls and flower buds, white and polychrome painted. Antique mirror plate and orginal back.

18th century Italian giltwood mirror with hand carved eagle, roses, leaves and other details. The carving around outer perimeter of the mirror to really highlight the details. Appear...

This 18th century Baroque giltwood Italian mirror has a theatrical face on the crest with swags flowing to the cornucopia corners. The bold frame has scrolls that are classically car...

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...

Beautiful pair of gilt mirrors with carved bow, cornucopia and garland details. One mirror has original mirror glass and the other was replaced l...

This Classic Greek and Egyptian motif mirror has vertical pillars flanking mirror panels framing the central split looking glass. The cornice of the mirror has a Classic Adams Urn...

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...

Antique 18th Century Early American Federal Style mahogany frame wall mirror with eagle pediment. Item features carved eagle pediment, nicely carved frame, very nice quality American...

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...

18th century, Pair of Venetian Baroque Giltwood Mirrors This important pair of baroque mirrors was built in the Venetian area (Italy) around t...

A narrow and tall Louis XVI period painted mirror frame with original 2-part mercury glass mirror, paint scraped to original.