Pair of French Rococo Style Gold Wall Mirrors with Fancy Scroll Work

Vintage French Rococo style ornate gold frame console wall mirror. Item features molded foam ornate Rococo frame, very nice vintage item, great style...

Friedman Brothers Gold French Rococo Style 45" Rectangular Wall Mirror. Item features beveled glass, ornate gesso frame, original label, quality American craftsmanship, great style a...

Vintage French Rococo Style Gold Gilt Leafy Scrollwork Wall Mirror. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 34.5" H x 18" W x 2" D.

Vintage Italian Carved Wood Gold Gilt French Rococo Style wall mirror. Item features gold gilt finish, ornate carvings throughout, solid wo...

Impressive 65" high vintage French Rococo / Louis XV style shell and floral carved wall mirror with shapely frame. Item features an attractive molded synthetic frame with shell form ...

19th century French Rococo gold giltwood relief carved wood acanthus leaf wall mirror. Item features a hand carved wood frame, distressed gold gilt fin...

Antique Rococo style pair of mirrors in plaster and gold-plated.

Pair of Italian Rococo style giltwood wall mirrors with rectangular plate within a scrolling acanthus surround (poss. Florence, 19th century).  

This superb Rococo-style gilt parclose wall mirror features a very ornate frame, inset with mirror plates and topped with an elaborate crest of stylised feathers. Dating from the 20t...

A Rococo style wall mirror by Carolina Mirror. Mirror glass in an intricately molded gold gilt painted composite frame with leaves to top center and floral accents throughout. Made i...

An elegant French Rococo style rectangular mirror. The sturdy and well made mirror features ebony black frame embellished with gold gilt. Each corner shows a large gold leaf design...

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...