Large Rococo Style Carved Giltwood and Silver Gilt Mirror, circa 1870

A fine and tall Louis XV style carved giltwood mirror. French, circa 1870. This very finely carved mirror has an arched cresting expressively carved with acanthus ‘C’-Scrolls ...

A Pair of Venetian Rococo Carved Giltwood Mirrors. These mirrors have elaborate pierced strapwork crestings surmounted by a shell-shaped corona above a cartouche-shaped plate, the...

A Large Regence Style Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirror. French, Circa 1860. This fine mirror is almost 2m in height. The arched mirror plate is framed by carved uprights with ...

A fine Tall giltwood trumeau mirror with figural uprights. This impressive and tall trumeau mirror has a shaped scrolling cresting above a painted panel depicting a nymph holding...

A very large and finely carved George II style giltwood mirror. This large and impressive carved giltwood and gesso mirror is over 267 cm (105 inches) high. It is finely carve...

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...

ITALIAN ROCAILLE-CARVED SILVER-GILT WALL MIRROR IN THE ROCOCO TASTE Probably Northern Italian circa 1870 Item # 403NDK18A An incredibly playful and expressive Italian wall mirror, i...

With a large foliate spray crest above an openwork frame consisting of floral and foliate vines, C-scrolls and acanthus leaves; shipping import label on reverse for Antonio's Antique...

Rococo mirror, carved giltwood, Spain, 1930s. Lovely Rococo style small carved giltwood frame surrounding an oval shaped glass. It has a beautiful crest adorning the top and naturali...

The cartouche-shaped mirror within an elaborate giltwood frame of C-scrolls, rocaille, and floral carving.

Rococo revival giltwood over mantle mirror heavily decorated with acanthus leaves motifs.

French antique Rococo style giltwood carved mirror France, circa 1890 Framed: Height 32, width 24" Condition: Very good overall condition.