Rococo Mirrors

A rare, unique and dramatic pair of Rococo style marble topped giltwood triangular shaped consoles and complimentary slightly elliptical giltwood mirrors. The four pieces are believed to be northern Italian most likely from the Venetian region. The design and carving of the superstructure presented with bunches of grapes, vine leaves, branches and twigs. A winged dragon is shown swirling around and down the central leg of each console. The three legs are joined with a lower stretcher are all presented as vine tree trunks from which germinate more grape leaves and branches. They both have shaped red/grey mottled marble tops. The consoles show more signs of early to mid-18th century Rococo chinoiserie influence. The mirrors were likely made slightly later in the 19th century but in the same Italian region, and appear to have a more Japanese influence in their design especially the hawk/eagle leaning over the top of the mirror. The giltwood frames of the mirrors are completely covered with gilded branches and leaves. On the left side of each mirror is a 'fantastical' dragon-bird, his huge wings spread out and his long tail clinging around the lower branches. He looks up into the eyes of the top hawk/eagle who appears ready to attack the dragon-bird. The whole is a real virtuoso display of carving and whimsical Rococo design. Chippendale in England and his contemporaries were some of the first cabinet makers to design furniture in the Rococo style, the term taken from the French 'Rocaille' (rockwork), as in fantasy constructions such as grottoes. The style originated in France early in the 18th century when there was a reaction against the weighty classicism of the Baroque style. The consequent taste was for something lighter representing an escape from the stifling, self-conscious grandeurs of the Louis XIV period. As pioneered by designers such as Jean Berain and Pierre Lepautre...

18th century Style Hendrix Allardyce Rococo Style La Rochelle Mirror.

An elegant and richly chased French 19th century Rococo st. Ormolu mirror. This stunning asymmetrical mirror displays its original beveled mirror plate set within the Ormolu frame de...

A floral and parcel gilt decorated Venetian mirror . The probable mercury plate in charming disintegration and decay . The paint with dirt and grime

A beautifully detailed Italian Rococo-style mirror with an impressive pierced crest and richly carved frame. The piece features scrolling acanthus leaves, shell motifs, and flourishe...

A 18th century Italian, Rococco mirror. Retaining its original silverleaf finish, mercury mirror plates and backing boards. Expertly realised with intertwined decorative scrolls foli...

This hand-hammered brass tole wall mirror features a green finish with gold highlights and an ornate relief pattern, topped with an oval sailing-boat medallion. The beveled mirror gl...

German paint decorated porcelain mirrors, late 19th century, in the manner of Meissen or Dresden, the crest with winged cherubs above the applied flowers and leaves, the base centere...

Large hand carved & gilded Italian Rococo mirror with original mirror plate. A wonderful 19th century mirror.

Dimensions - H: 40 1/4 in W: 34 3/4 in D: 2 1/4 in Add a sense of timeless grandeur and Old World romance to your interior with this exquisite Italian Rococo style carved gilt mirr...

A stunning pair of antique French Rococo style gilt wood mirrors. They are in the classical Rococo style, they were made in France in around the 1950-60’s. The quality is superb, wi...

A fine naturalistically carved mirror with bird, branch and stylised animal decoration in the manner of Thomas Johnson. Please note we are currently working to a 30-36 week lead ti...

Dimensions: Height - 50.25 inches Width - 39 inches Depth - 3.75 inches A beautifully sculptural vintage Italian giltwood mirror executed in the Rococo style and dating to approxima...

The crest top Venetian mirror. With its beveled panels and carved crest topped with a lovely lotus flower-like motif, the crest top mirror has been handmade and hand silvered. The ce...

Rococo antique gold leaf mirror attributed to La Barge Italy.

2 Italian Rococo-style (19/20th Century) gilt vertical shaped wall mirrors with carved filigree scroll design. (PRICED EACH)

A 18th century - 19th century, gold antique French Rococo style wall mirror made of handcrafted gilded Pinewood, with its original two-part mirrored glass, in good condition. The top...

Impressive antique Italian wall mirror featuring reverse etched panels with classic floral designs inside hand blown twisted glass rods on the outer edge and inner with glass florets.

A circa 1735-40 stunning and idiosyncratic ‘wall furniture’ French asymmetric Rococo frame, with flowered swept sides and back, sumptuously carved with complex highly mouvementé pro...

French Louis XV-style; carved giltwood wall mirror; Antique; Rococo; Giltwood antique mirror from the 19th century. A very remarkable piece of craftsmanship made in France. In the ...

A fine Venetian floral painted porcelain mirror measures 27 by 42 by 3 inches, featuring

An impressive rounded rectangular mirror in Rococo style in a fine gilt frame detailed with a leafy flourish at the pediment. The interior perimeter of the frame features columnar ...

Great antique carved Rococo style giltwood Italian mirror. Distressed original mirror glass as shown in photos. Good overall condition . Measures 30" x 17". Inset mirror is 15.5" x 1...

Wall mirror, having a rectangular gadrooned frame, surmounted by a pierced pediment of elaborate foliate scrollwork, accented by coquillage and rosette...

Italian Wood Caved Rococo Wall Mirror, Giltwood, Gold Leaf Italy 1930-1940s. Impressive finely carved gold gilt wood Rococo style wall mirror or console mirror. This mirror features...

Large Pair Antique Porcelain Rococo Style Floral Flowers Mirrors German, Late 19th Century Height 136cm, width 90cm, depth 17/ 20cm This exceptional pair of mirrors, crafted by ma...

Italian Hollywood Regency Gilded Large Round Peacock Mirror This stunning Hollywood Regency peacock mirror imported from Italy dating back to the 1960s. Affluent, sculptural and chi...

Finely Carved Gold Leaf Giltwood Florentine Wall / Console Mirror, Italy, 1930s-1940s The frame is richly adorned with carved acanthus leaves, scroll details. It wears its original g...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Giltwood, Original Mirror Glass Style: Italian Rococo This ornate Italian giltwood mirror embodies the graceful curves and lavish de...

A very large and fine 19th century Italian Rococo style carved giltwood figural console table and matching mirror. The "D" shaped console table masterfully carved with foliate, masks...

A Magnificent Pair of George II Style English Carved Giltwood ‘Rococo’ Wall Mirrors After A Design By Thomas Johnson. Of large proportions, each mirror having a cartouche-shaped plate within a profusely carved and pierced branch-entwined frame with stylised acanthus foliate rocaille and ‘C’-scroll decoration, architectural motifs and running dogs, surmounted by an asymmetrical pagoda form cresting with rockwork spires and a seated rustic couple holding a basket, flanked by confronted Ho-Ho birds, with a conforming asymmetrical apron of acanthus and waterwork icicles centred by a perching bird. This magnificent and ornate pair of English wall mirrors or ‘pier glasses’ are refined and reduced from a design by Thomas Johnson (1723–1799) first published in 1756 and included in his ‘Collections of Designs’ (1758), plate 4, and republished in his ‘One Hundred and Fifty New Designs" (1761) as plate 22. Pier Glasses were designed to be placed on the wall or 'pier' between windows; as well as forming part of a decorative scheme they provided an important functional use, creating a reversal of dynamic with the windows at night, reflecting and maximising the light given off by candles or oil lamps. Johnson’s asymmetrical design creates a sense of fluidity and lightness to the mirrors, employing ‘contraste’ in the placing or absence of elements, to create a stylised form, which through the dynamic tension of its constituent parts instils the mirrors with a sense of playfulness and vitality. In London throughout the 1740s and 1750s there developed a great enthusiasm for the whimsical Rococo style, and it rapidly became the height of fashion, popularised, and disseminated throughout the country and further afield by cabinetmakers’ 'Books of Prices', and 'Directories'. The second half of the 19th century saw a revival of the Rococo style in England and many designers and furniture makers turned once again to Chippendale’s ‘Director’ and designs by Matthias Lock and Thomas Johnson for inspiration, with fine examples based on modified designs or specific plates. Thomas Johnson’s designs, executed in a vigourous picturesque manner, are often inspired by the work of earlier French designers, transposing motifs taken from engraved ornament by Jean Bérain, Daniel Marot, William de la Cour, J. B. Toro and Francis Barlow...

Antique Italian hand carved and gilded Rococo style wall mirror.

A stunning Italian Louis J. Solomon mirror in Baroque design, displaying a scalloped top arch with mirror paneling along a border surrounded by ornate carved giltwood with foliate fl...

Monumental antique Rococo style carved giltwood mirror French, 19th Century Height 294cm, width 226cm, depth 20cm This large giltwood mirror is an impressive decorative piece rich ...

A very attractive pair of Italian 18th century Rococo st. giltwood mirrors. Each uniquely scaled mirror is set within a rectangular giltwood frame with ‘S’ scrolled draping floral ga...

An extraordinary 19th century Italian Rococo giltwood mirror richly carved with exuberant detail and figural ornamentation. The crest is surmounted by a reclining putto reading from ...

Mid-18th century English carved and gilt rococo mirror with foliate and scroll carving, the sides with vines of flowers and leaves and with scrolled acanthus leaf flourishes.

A pair of Italian carved giltwood Rococo mirrors. Reataining the original bevelled plate glass with some foxing. Warm patina and original boarded backs. Asymmetrical design, some ver...

An opulent Italian Rococo-style giltwood wall mirror featuring a pierced, ribbon border. The ornate frame is constructed in an open fretwork, interlaced ribbon design on all four sid...

Antique monumental wall Mirror, hand carved Oak frame . comes with a Cherubs head and his wings , beautiful carved, no symmetry in the carving between the left or Right side of t...

Florentine Gilt and Painted Wall Mirror from Italy With amazing patina front and back. Charming classic style Italian gilded Florentine gold and cream wood mirror with painted flower...

Painted Rococo trumeau mirror, having a painted finish showing desirable natural wear, its raised and fielded frame, surrounding foliate scrolls and a shaped mirrorplate. Stock I...

Rococo style hand carved walnut mirror attributed to Labarge. Made in Italy.

Lavish Meissen porcelain serves as the extraordinary frame for this mirror. Exquisitely hand-painted in polychrome with gilt accents, the bountiful fr...

19th Century French Carved Wood Mirror with Cherub Crest A highly decorative 19th century French mirror featuring an elaborately carved wood frame in a warm, timeworn patina. The cr...

Spanish Rococo Console Mirror with Crest Eye-catching Rococo Style giltwood mirror with foliage and floral carved details on the frame and striped and scroll decorations. The sinuous...

Monumental 19th century Italian parcel and water gilt mirror with beautifully ornately carved birds, fruit, foliage and faces. Measures: 91" H x 60" W.

Dimensions - H: 58 1/2 in W: 31 1/4 in D: 1 3/4 in An exquisite antique Italian trumeau mirror from the 1920s, masterfully carved and adorned with a delicate crème-painted finish, ...

Exquisite Rococo style pair of small scale carved mirrors with a crest on the top and carved naturalistic details at the frames. These pieces are unusual due to their size, they wear...

A vintage white framed wall mirror in the Rococo style, circa mid-20th century. Mirror is wood, painted white, and is prepared for hanging on back as shown in last image. Piece is a ...

Ornate and intricate best describe this elegant classic Danish Rococo design from the late 18th Century. Perfect wall mirror to be used formally or informally in a hallway, bathroom,...

Superb ornate oval Venetian mirror having dark blue glass around the border and wonderful details. Side edges are velvet lined.

Large mirror, The Farnesiana of Parma, designed by Carlo Corvi, made of white Majolic ceramic, is decorated with delicate flowers and measures 70 centimeters by 32 cm. Belonging to t...

Authentic period piece for amateurs and collectors. Gorgeous antique mirror dating from the second half of the 19th century, in full Rococo style. This is not a modern reproducti...

Gold gilt carved wall Mirror from Italy with amazing patina. Charming classic Rococo style Italian mirror with floral details. Perfect piece to be used formally or informally in a ha...

Italy / 1850 / 2 mirrors / wood / Baroque / Rococo / Mid-century A pair of very fine Italian Rococo carved and gilded wood mirrors with original mirrors and beautiful patina. Carved...

This monumental, 18th century Florentine Italian carved giltwood mirror with matching floor-standing cabriole legged planter is a historical showpiece in search of a palatial home se...

Rare large oval relief porcelain mirror: colourful oval lenses alternate with blue forget-me-not flowers, bordered on the inside by inwardly curved pink and turquoise hightened overl...

Charming and understated Swedish C18th rococo mirror edged and framed in gilt with faceted border and simple plaster flower decorative detailing, the glass has lovely foxing and wear...

A spectacular and extremely high quality Italian 18th century Rococo period giltwood mirror. The mirror retains its original mirror plate set within the stunning intricately detailed...