18th Century and Earlier Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

A very fine Piedmontese giltwood pier mirror. This beautiful mirror has a wonderfully patinated arched mercury plate, which is enclosed by a slender marginal plate of the same glass....

18th century, Louis XVI Wall cartoons (3) Carved and gilded wood, 60 x 40 cm - 35 x 36 cm Light, 30 x 26 cm - 14 x 13 cm The three pieces of furniture in question represent splen...

A very good quality 18th Century Italian carved gilt wood Neo classical Pier glass mirror, having scrolling foliate and floral decoration, winged sphinx's, medusa and lion mask mount...

Ancient and large mirror, richly carved by hand and silver leaf, with double mirror and depictions of mythological creatures carved in the wood of the frame, built to position it ove...

An Italian, Piedmontian, carved and gilt looking glass with hippocampus, bellflowers, reeds, capitals and flaming torches.

Very decorative Renaissance style mirror with two female figures in profile prominently flanking either side of the carved frame. Later mirror plate.

Beautifully hand-carved, gessoed and 22k gold gilded, c. 1760 pier mirror inset with its original two panels of mercury glass. The whole embellished with relief carved scrolls, and s...

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...

A Late 18th, early 19th Century Giltwood Mirror with extraordinary carved details, incorporating winged dragons, palm leaf carving, and central satyr mask. Additional information: D...

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...

An exceptionally fine eighteenth-century Piedmontese pier mirror. The ornately moulded frame is surmounted by elaborate scrolling foliate surmount, which looms over the mirror plate....

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 ...

A George II Carved Giltwood Palladian Pier Mirror with broken pediment and acanthus topped and foliate carved scrolled cartouche, the frieze with splayed and overlapping palm leaf ce...

A Louis XVI painted and parcel giltwood mirror with original plate. Beautifully carved with lovely old color and patination.

Italian neoclassical giltwood mirror with delicate carving throughout.

Louis XVI period carved painted and parcel giltwood wall mirror with pediment centered by urn and cascading flowers.

Beautiful French Oval Gold Gilt Mirror adorned with French Motiff

18th c. French Carved Giltwood and Painted Mirror with Pastel Portrait of a Lady. Original Mirror.

Olaf Wetterberg (1745 Sweden 1803), Rococo mirrors, pair, circa 1760, giltwood with original plates. A peculiarity of Swedish mirrors, well into the 19th century, is that in all but...

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