18th Century More Mirrors

English Queen Anne gilt carved wood and gesso shaped crest foliage wall mirror with the original beveled mirror and wood backing. Mid 18th Century

An important Adam influenced design in the tall carved and gilt oval mirror. The tall top element with a pine cone and leafy crest atop a footed urn with bell flower swags. A center fluted horn...

Dating to circa 1770, this beautiful gilt wood mirror is presented with its original mirror plate, which has foxed in the most wonderful manner, the carved wood and gilt gesso decora...

Gilded and carved late 18th century French mirror with lyre and acanthus detail. Very good condition considering age.

Small French antique mirror, late 18th century. Carved wood Berain style frame on a grooved background. Gold leaf with aged patina. Antique wood back. Antique frame measures: width 1...

A very rare carved gilt gesso dressing mirror. Queen Anne / George I-period, ca 1710-20. Decorated all over with the original finely carved gilt-gesso surfaces with typical circular punched reserves. The hinged fall - of what one might refer to as the 'table bureau' section - reveals a shaped, fitted interior, gilded and japanned (''lacquered'') in black with red. Some external carved surfaces show very minor areas of wear revealing the authentic bole and gesso ground. Overall in superb condition. H: 39 1/2’’ (100 cm) D: 12 1/2’’ (31.5 cm) W: 17 3/4’’ (45.5 cm). Reminiscent of the work of London-based James Moore (ca 1670-1726), a supreme exponent of the art of cut gesso and gilding. This dressing table mirror is possibly unique in this form, and as such has survived some 310 years in remarkably original state. It may have been part of a suite of furniture, would have been extremely costly, and very much the reserve of the aristocracy and wealthy in the early part of the 18th century. For documented pieces by James Moore visit the Royal Collection Trust. Wikipedia: James Moore (furniture designer). James Moore (circa 1670 - October 1726) was established at Short's Gardens, St. Giles-in-the-Fields. He was in partnership with John Gumley from 1714 and, unlike his partner, did not advertise - the sole published reference to him being a notice of his death in The Weekly Journal or The British Gazetteer. As Royal cabinet-maker he supplied walnut and mahogany furniture for the Royal Household, the Royal Yacht, and the King's servants and mistresses, as well as the rich gilt-gesso work for which he is best known. Moore is especially renowned for gilt-gesso furniture: tables; looking glass frames; and candle stands. A pair of gilt-gesso side tables bearing the crowned cypher of George I in The Royal Collection, and the pair of candle stands en-suite are incised with his name - an unusual practice at the time. At Erddig, such furniture by Moore can be linked to surviving bills and receipts from James Moore and John Belchier, 1722-26. Gilt-gesso furniture is also encountered in fine Louis XIV and other European furniture of the period. Literature: Ralph Edwards CBE FSA 'The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture', Hamlyn, London (Fourth Impression 1972) ill. 5, p. 363. One of a pair of looking glasses by James Moore, 1720. Erddig, Denbigh. The crest is reminiscent of that upon our dressing mirror, which we are offering here. Kreisel, Heinrich, 'Die Kunst Des Deutschen Mobels', CH Beck, Munchen (1970) ill. 345, p. 347 - note similarities in the treatment of the top of the crest. This mirror was last seen in the collection of Augsburg Castle. Synge, Lanto, 'Great English Furniture', London (1991) p. 52. Symonds, R. W., 'A Royal Scrutoire', Connoisseur (June 1940) pp. 233-236. Symonds, R. W., 'English Gesso Furniture', The Antique Collector, Vol. XXVII (August 1956) p. 140. 'A Golden Cabinet...

Exquisite Italian wall mirrors made in hand carved wood hand painted in light grey with gilded inner parts and floral motifs one of them still wearing the original glass. There were ...

French Regence Period mirror. Carved giltwood decorated with leaves volutes masks and topped by a bust. Use restorations.     

Originally a window from an 18th-century Georgian home, this piece has been ingeniously repurposed into a mirror, maintaining its historical integrity while offering a new functional...

18th century, Italian rectangular mirror with carved and giltwood frame North Italy (Turin), mid-18th century The mirror, made in north ...

A masterpiece of design and execution, this beautiful girandole exhibits every opulent detail of the Chinese Chippendale period. Elaborate C...

19th century English Regency gilt neoclassical mirror.

An English fret-carved mahogany wall, or pier, mirror of superb colour and patina. Late-George II period, circa 1760. The unusual, undulating, serpentine inner border is gesso carve...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original 18th century light oak finely carved wall mirror Decorative and highly collectable, the cherub really is the centre piece o...

Italian carved guilded table mirror, great patina, very decorative.

An unusually shaped pair of Italian 18th century mecca and patinated mirrors. The pair with a wide mottled bottom shelf has a central shield flanked by elaborate foliate mecca scroll...

An Italian decoratively hand-painted wall mirror from the 18th century. This antique mirror from Italy has thick wood surround that has been hand-painted...

A fine and most attractive antique Chippendale period carved wood and gilt oval mirror, topped with an elaborate Rococo cartouche cresting consisting of acanthus leaves and C-scrolls...