Gilded Wood Mirror - Louis XVI - Sacred Heart Devotion - Period : XVIIIth

Rare giltwood bedroom mirror (sometimes called a "bridal mirror"). The pediment is adorned with a large rocaille motif centred on a basket, while the inner edges of the central mirro...

Rare giltwood bedroom mirror (sometimes called a "bridal mirror"). The pediment is adorned with a large rocaille motif centred on a basket, while the inner edges of the central mirro...

A delightful wooden wall mirror entirely gilded with 24-carat gold leaf. Of attractive proportions, composed of a mercury mirror and a scrolled frame decorated with acanthus leaves, ...

Lovely little mirror in carved wood, gilded with 24 carat gold leaf, Louis XV period, old mercury ice. Its pediment is openwork with patterns of shells and acanthus leaves, and its s...

Lovely little mirror in carved wood, gilded with 24 carat gold leaf, Louis XV period, old mercury ice. Its pediment is openwork with patterns of shells and acanthus leaves, and its s...

Magnificent Regency gilded wood mirror, violin shape, with shell and scroll decorations. It has two small curved legs, its mercury mirror, its gilding and its parquet floor are original. Period : 18th century Dimensions : height : 120cm x width : 69cm Dimensions of the mirror : height : 65cm x width : 46cm When Louis XIV died, the heir Louis XV was too young, it was Philippe Duc d'Orléans (1674-1723), nephew of Louis XIV called "the Regent" who shared the power of the Regency with the high nobility and the parliamentarians. This was a period of transition of great artistic interest for a new, more intimate society with smaller, more varied and more soberly decorated homes. The craftsmen and artists of the time, ornamentalists and cabinetmakers, created less for the monarch and his court. They created for the rich bourgeoisie, financiers and the new nobility. They took on lighter decorative themes such as hunting, fishing and love. This is the birth of a so-called transitional style, the Regency style. It was during this period that large mirrors appeared for decorative purposes above fireplaces, as well as mirrors with closed panels decorated with five-pointed shells or plumes. The carved wood or gilded wood mouldings...

Rectangular mirror in carved and gilded wood Louis XVI XVIII period. Frame formed by finely carved moldings with a frieze of pearls and a frieze of velvet Mercury mirror and original...

Beautiful Louis XVI mirror in carved and gilded wood. Extremely refined is the cymatium, which is richly carved in the form of a flower vase from which cords extend laterally. Of ...

Piedmont, Louis XVI Mirror with selvage Carved and gilded wood, 164 x 104 cm Light, 90 x 70 cm The Louis XVI mirror under consideration, clearly manufactured in Piedmont, was mad...

18th century Louis XVI period mirror-unique shape.

Gilded wood mirror style Louis XVI, circa 1850. The carved mirror has a pediment representing a quiver of arrow and a flambeau on the top a ribbon of laurel leaves.  

Louis XVI period trumeau mirror in carved pine. The original paint has been stripped, and the wood has been waxed. The neoclassical carving featu...