Pair Of Vintage Purple Lacquered Rococo Style Wall Mirrors

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

Pair of rococo mini sized mirrors, giltwood, gold leaf, Spain, 1930s These two small scale Rococo style round mirrors feature carved gold gilt frames. Unusual pieces due to their size. Nice aged patina showing their original gold leaf gilding. Interesting for collectors and beautiful to be displayed with other miniature mirrors creating a wall composition. Overall dimensions: 16,8 cm H x 11,5 cm W x 3 cm D / each Glass dimensions: 6'5 cm diameter The mirror collage...

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...

Pair of Italian Rococo style carved wood mirrors from the late 19th century. These feature an exquisite Rococo style carved lacquered frame. Purchased at Doyle Auction...

A Pair of Oval Rococo Gilt Wall Mirrors Each of the Mirrors have an exquisite gilt Frame in the Rococo Style, they have a large Ribbon the t...

A pair of Venetian giltwood mirrors 18th century with etched mirror plates depicting Classical muses. Elaborately carved, gessoed, and gilt mirror frames with diamond dust mirrors...