antique mirrors: mirrors & looking glasses
Antique mirrors including, but not limited to, dressing table mirrors, cheval mirrors, swing mirrors and gilt mirrors. A mirror is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the image in an equal yet opposite angle from which the light shines upon it. This allows the viewer to see themselves or objects behind them, or even objects that are at an angle from them but out of their field of view, such as around a corner. Natural mirrors have existed since prehistoric times, such as the surface of water, but people have been manufacturing mirrors out of a variety of materials for thousands of years, like stone, metals, and glass. In modern mirrors, metals like silver or aluminum are often used due to their high reflectivity, applied as a thin coating on glass because of its naturally smooth and very hard surface.
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Queen Anne Style Cheval Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1920. A Queen Anne style mahogany cheval mirror, the frame with a wavy top carved in solid mahogany with a reeded edge that continues along the side and the base. The mirror is supported...
£850.00
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George 3rd Style Chippendale Style Gilded Mahogany Wall Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34521 Circa 1840 George 3rd Style Chippendale Style Gilded Mahogany Wall Mirror Surmounted by a fretted and pierced crests with gilded eagle decoration, the corners with outswept fretted details, and the fretted base...
£375.00
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Unusual Victorian wall mirror in a figured mahogany frame with scalloped and gilded decorations
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34511 Circa 1880. Unusual Victorian wall mirror in a figured mahogany frame with scalloped and gilded decorations and 19th century mirror plate in excellent condition. 56 cm H x 39 cm W 56...
£290.00
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Quality Queen Anne style neat-sized mahogany cheval mirror in Spanish mahogany
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34466 Circa 1920 Quality Queen Anne style neat-sized mahogany cheval mirror in Spanish mahogany. The tall rectangular mirror with a shaped top and its mirror plate in perfect condition within moulded flame mahogany...
£650.00
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Impressive tall mahogany framed Victorian Pier mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1860. Impressive tall mahogany framed Victorian Pier mirror. The moulded frame with rounded corners at the top in a quality figured mahogany. The mirror plate in excellent condition and with a solid slatted back....
£1,650.00
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Decorative embossed brass Glasgow-style circular wall mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34465 Circa 1900. Decorative embossed brass circular wall mirror in the manner of Margaret Gilmore (1863-1942). The embossed Glasgow-style Art Nouveau decoration with Celtic knots and a punched background around a circular beveled...
£425.00
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Chippendale style inlaid mahogany wall mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1880. Chippendale style inlaid mahogany wall mirror. The rectangular mirror frame in flame mahogany with boxwood string edging. Surmounted by a fretted crest with an inlaid satinwood shel, fretted shape corners and a further...
£325.00
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Regency giltwood rectangular wall mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34459 Circa 1820. Regency giltwood rectangular wall mirror. The breakfront top with rondel decorations above a frieze with Neoclassical heraldic and rococo scroll decorations. The sides with fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and...
£890.00
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Unusual oak Arts and Crafts style Dressing Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34458 Circa 1910. Unusual oak Arts and Crafts style dressing mirror. The rectangular mirror within an oak frame, the top with art nouveau style carvings and supported on shaped supports with acorn finials...
£375.00
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Adjustable Victorian Toilet Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34430 Circa 1860. Mid Victorian adjustable toilet mirror on stand, with circular mirror with shaped frame the back of the mirror is polished with interesting design, supported on a large shaped upright (adjustable...
£675.00
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Tortoise Shell Toilet Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 34415 Circa 1900. A very stylish and elegant George I style tortoise shell toilet mirror. The shaped and arched frame with strips of tortoise shell intersected by string inlays of ivory. The frame...
£1,450.00
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Walnut Cheval Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1920s. A stylish walnut Queen Anne Style walnut framed cheval mirror, the shaped frame with a bevel edge mirror insert, supported on two tapering uprights surmounted by finials, braced by large polished stretcher, resting...
£850.00
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Papal Interest A Fine Mirror With The Papal Coat Of Arms With the Two keys Last Quarter 18th Cent...
koos limburg jnr, glen prosen, united kingdom
Papal Interest A Fine Mirror With The Papal Coat Of Arms With the Two keys Last Quarter 18th Century. Mainly carved of one block of wood with original wooden ornaments fixed on the basic frame....
£4,750.00
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Circular Scotch Whisky Advert Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1920s. An unusual American Scotch whisky advertising mirror. Framed in a metal bezel which has been gilded, with the inscription “Authorised purveyor by appointment Catto’s Gold Label Scotch Whisky 86% proof”. At the bottom...
£375.00
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Victorian Mahogany Toilet Mirror
fb antiques, rettendon common, united kingdom
For sale is a good quality Victorian mahogany toilet mirror, remaining in excellent condition. Width: 68cm Depth: 33cm Height: 76cm
£225.00
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Adam Style Over-Mantle Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1880. An Adam style carved gesso and painted over mantle mirror, with a flat top, moulded fore-edge with a foliate pattern, the frieze with classic Adam design including patera, swags of leaves and branches...
£1,250.00
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Rare, Neat-Sized Inlaid Mahogany Apprentice-Piece Regency Dressing Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1820. Rare, neat-sized inlaid mahogany apprentice-piece Regency dressing mirror. The rectangular mirror in a moulded boxwood inlaid frame surmounted by a shaped crest and supported on turned pilasters with turned finials. The base with...
£440.00
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Queen Anne Style Cheval Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
A stylish queen Anne style mahogany frame cheval mirror, the dome top in fine flame mahogany, the mirror frame supported on 2 tapering uprights surmounted by a pair of elegant finials, with cast brass axe...
£900.00
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Cheval Mirror by Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1920. A stylish satin-birch and mahogany cheval mirror by ‘Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh’, the arched mirror framed in a satin-birch frame with a simple but elegant design on the top, the frame supported...
£2,250.00
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WALNUT & GILT GEORGIAN WALL HANGING MIRROR
bore park antiques, nuneaton, united kingdom
Ghosted Reflections all original mirrors never been replaced or restored superb fretting quality walnut, consider very early Georgian possibly as early as Queen Anne having height of 97 cm width being 52 cm, offering free...
£975.00
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Fine quality antique George III dressing table mirror
unique antiques by emma jade, ipswich, united kingdom
Antique George III quality mahogany dressing table mirror having a quality rectangular shaped tilting mirror supported by turned mahogany columns above a mahogany base with three drawers, original brass knobs standing on the original square...
£445.00
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Embossed Brass Wall Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Circa 1930s. A stylish and elegant rectangular shaped bevel edge mirror contained in a brass frame. The rectangular mirror with canted corners with the mirror following the form of the frame, made in sections of...
£350.00
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Pair of Victorian, Decorative Rosewood Framed Wall Mirrors
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 33977A Circa 1860. Pair of Victorian, decorative rosewood framed wall mirrors. The rectangular mirrors with rounded corners within a molded frame with shaped fretted decoration above and below and flanked by columns with...
£550.00
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George IV Painted and Parcel-Gilt Overmantel Mirror
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 33937 Circa 1825, a quality George IV overmantel mirror, the leaf moulded cornice above an acanthus and palmette moulded frieze centred by classical mask medallion, above the rectangular mirror plate in an anthemion...
£4,250.00
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Carved Giltwood Mirror in the Style of Robert Adam
georgian antiques, edinburgh, united kingdom
Stock No. 29015 Circa 1950s, a carved giltwood mirror in the style of Robert Adam. The oval-shaped mirror is surmounted by a spray of foliate carving held in place by c-scroll brackets. These occur continually...
£2,500.00
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