Avery Dash Collections Pier Mirrors and Console

Impressive large-scale carved wood mirror.

18th century Italian giltwood mirror with hand carved eagle, roses, leaves and other details. The carving around outer perimeter of the mirror to really highlight the details. Appear...

Large Hand Carved Mahogany and Gilt Maitland-Smith Wood Mirror. Beautiful classical designed frame with beveled glass. Adorned with swags, rosettes, florals and a central urn. Hand c...

French gilt mirror with doors, French mirror purchased in Japan, with doors that close and beautifully gilded framing. Includes original mirror with ...

Italian Rococo gilt and carved wood mirror.

Continental giltwood mirror with original glass.

18th Century Italian giltwood mirror. With carved scroll work headed with an eagle and terminating in swags of carved flowers.

Early 20th French Empire period carved gilt wood rectangular mirror with crest Highly carved with flowers , original glass (possibly re-si...

Spanish rococo style finely carved gold leaf giltwood mirror. A highly decorative finely carved Rococo style mirror with gold leaf finish and beautiful ...

Finely carved and gilt solid wood beveled glass mirror, Italian, neoclassical style.

A George III Giltwood Pier Mirror In the Manner of Thomas Johnson An exceptionally detailed design; the superb carved decoration housing a shaped rectangular plate and undulating mirrored borders; the inner frame closely tied to the outer frame and leading the eye around the mirror. The grandiose masterful carving incorporating C-scrolls, flowering branchwork, stylized icicles, acanthus leaves, and distinctive architectural follies and figures which firmly place this mirror within the canon of Johnson's greatest designs. The confident execution is a great testament to the technical prowess and artistic creativity of one of the greatest carvers and designers of the eighteenth century, circa 1760. Provenance Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Farmleigh, Co. Dublin, (1880?-1927); The Earls of Iveagh, Farmleigh, Co. Dublin & Elveden Hall, Suffolk (1927-2018). Thomas Johnson (1723-1799) Thomas Johnson was one of the most skilled carvers and furniture designers in Georgian England. Drawing inspiration from the Fables of Aesop, the rococo, China, and the idealised rustic life, his work is whimsical, exuberant and witty. Chippendale borrowed freely from his work. Johnson was a founder member of the 'Antigallican Society', a group who excoriated the French taste. In addition to its relation to Johnson's designs, this mirror also reflects the influence of Lock, the great master with whom he worked for a period. Lock published many sketches and pattern books, including A New Book of Ornaments for Looking Glasses in 1752, introducing several idiosyncratic features which Johnson would adopt such as the small decorative urns...

Russian gilt carved wood and gesso wall mirror with an arched painted lapis cornice, flanking fluted acanthus columns, and decorated with lambs tongue, bell flower, interior bead wor...