Queen Anne Walnut & Parcel Gilt Dressing Mirror

Mahogany Tilting Dressing Mirror , the mirror on a turned frame. Mirror tilts to desired position. The antique frame with period mirror lightly antiqued ...

A lovely George III Mahogany dressing mirror, it’s oval mounted Above a serpentine case with 3 drawers raised on bracket feet. Brass Handles & keyhole escutcheon.

This American Federal gilt-wood mirror dates Circa 1790, it’s lower rectangular antique mirror plate below A black, white & gold verre e...

George III Style Gilt-Wood Mirror. Having an Oval mirror plate, surrounded by a foliate carved giltwood fame. The oval frame with 2 carved Ho Ho Birds below the carved with a cen...

17 Queen Anne style Mahogany Armchair Each seat is 17 1/2 inches deep and 22 inches wide. Slip seats are removable from the underside with four screws.

Small Venetian mirror, Early 20th century, with beveled central mirror plate surrounded by etched & silvered side panels held in place with Rose...

A charming Queen Anne style walnut dressing mirror of simple design. This could be hung also.

This very early Queen Anne style English shaving mirror features lovely burled walnut with oak lined drawers and a fancifully curved four-drawer front. The brass lock escutcheon, dec...

Queen Anne dressing glass with pivoting looking glass, English, 18th century Two short drawers flanking a serpentine center section. Provenance: Ken...

Walnut Queen Anne Revival Dressing Mirror Circa 1900 Shaped Swing Mirror with Walnut Cross grained Moulded frame, Pair Square Supports with Turned acorn finials, Base with 3 small ...

Unusual easel framed Venetian carved wood parcel-gilt mirrors. Original finish, very decorative Italian dresser top mirrors selling and priced as a ...

A very rare carved gilt gesso dressing mirror. Queen Anne / George I period, c 1710-20. Decorated all over with the original finely carved gilt-gesso surfaces with typical circular punched reserves. The hinged fall reveals a shaped, fitted interior, gilded and japanned (lacquered) in red. Some external carved surfaces show very minor areas of wear revealing the authentic bole and gesso ground. Overall in superb condition. Measures: 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 (c 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 over 300 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 the wealthy in the early part of the 18th century. For documented pieces by James Moore viz. 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 XlV 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. Refs: 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...