Large 19th Century Italian Carved Mirror

Wonderful North Italian mid 18th Century carved wood silvered mirror.The later arched plate with a further mirrored border. The exuberantly carved cresting is topped with a woven bas...

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

A bold early 19th Century Florentine giltwood mirror of large scale and shapely form. In the 18th Century style, with pluming crest, flanked by wings and foliate and trailing elabora...

An 18th Century French gilded mirror with carved doves and foliage. Retaining its original faded gilding.

This is an elaborate 18th-century Italian carved wood mirror - grand scale and highly decorative with beautiful wood carved framing and the original plate glass. Highly ornate Roco...

This exquisite antique wall mirror from Italy, dating to the early 20th century, is a stunning example of Baroque-inspired craftsmanship. The frame is richly carved and gilded, showc...

Ancient and large mirror, richly carved by hand and silver leaf, with double mirror and depictions of mythological creatures carved in the wood of the frame, built to position it ove...

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...