17th Century Wall Mirrors

Exceptional, museum quality, late-renaissance, english, ebonised pine and reverse painted wall mirror with its original plate & inlaid mirror pieces in the frame. -This is an exceptionally rare, early example of a luxury item combining reverse painting and gilding which subsequently became known as verre eglomise and inlaid mirror plate. -This mirror was conceived as a jewel most likely for the bedchamber or cabinet, the highest status interiors in the home, the deep green simulating the much prized emerald, the gilding and the expensive mirror plate reflecting the light and the latter the image of its owner and the interior also. -The tiered form enhances its gravitas. The two central motifs and the composition of the gilding suggesting falling blossom as well as the allusion to the emerald give it a naturalistic quality. - There is only one other known related mirror in the V&A museum, see last two images The original mirror plate surrounded by an ebonised moulding and an outer frame of green reverse painting imitating the emerald with gilded brushstrokes giving the appearance of falling blossom with inlaid sections of mirror plate in stylised diamond patterns. The tiered cresting with similar decorating including two larger naturalised inlaid motifs in mirror plate. In original condition. Provenance : Private Collection Related to : A mirror in the V&A Museum Measures: height 42.20 cm., 16.61 inches length 29.00 cm., 11.42 inches The technique of reverse-painting glass dates back to the pre-Roman era...

Exceptional, late-Renaissance, ebonised pine and reverse painted wall mirror with its original plate & inlaid mirror pieces in the frame, probably Dutch This is an exceptionally rare, early example of a luxury item combining reverse painting and gilding which subsequently became known as verre églomisé and inlaid mirror plate. This mirror was conceived as a jewel most likely for the bedchamber or cabinet, the highest status interiors in the home, the deep green simulating the much prized emerald, the gilding and the expensive mirror...

the shaped rectangular frame of concave form providing depth for the antique mirrorplate and the row of foliate giltwood carvings surrounding it, the frame surmounted by a large foli...

A Flemish Baroque ebony mirror, late 17th century. The ripple-moulded cushion frame engraved with flowers and birds.

Leather rectangle mirror by Jacques Adnet with brass buckle.

Large flamed mirror frame of the 17th century. The size of the mirror was altered probably in the 19th century and the mirror pane was replaced.

A Fine William and Mary japanned and gilt mirror, circa 1690. The bolection frame decorated in relief with Chinese figures, flowers, building...

The Italian, 18th-19th century panel polychrome painted and tooled in a 17th century guilloche ebonized frame.

A late 17th century carved giltwood frame, carved with foliage and headed with a sunflower, now with a contemporary mirror plate.

The frame having notched corners and raised moldings, walnut veneers and ebonized moldings, now fitted with an "antiqued" mirror plate.

The frame having multiple layers of carved moldings and a raised inner section.

from the late 17th century and formerly a brassiere, the feet removed, with "antiqued" mirror plate