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.
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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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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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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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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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
view detailskoos 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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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
view detailsfb 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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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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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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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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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
view detailsbore 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
view detailsunique 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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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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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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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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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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Circa 1930’s. A mahogany framed Queen Ann style cheval mirror, with a stylish arched frame supported on two tapering uprights surmounted by elegant finials, with the mirror held in place by a pair of cast...
£590.00
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Circa 1850. A decorative 19th Century Jacobean-style oak wall mirror with oil-painting panel. The tall rectangular mirror with an acanthus and shell carved crest and moulded frame with an oil painting on board of a...
£590.00
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Circa 1900. Chippendale-style, Edwardian period hand carved giltwood wall mirror. Surmounted by an open carved foliate crest with trailing Rococo leaves and flower heads and with similar decoration down the sides, the base with further...
£1,450.00
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Stock No. 34109 Circa 1870. A mid Victorian profusely carved oak framed mirror, with raised and carved top with pierced foliate carving, the frieze centered by a winged cherub sitting proudly, with extended rows of...
£1,500.00
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Circa 1830. A stylish carved and giltwood overmantel mirror from the William IV period. The top surmounted by a scroll of foliate carving with a pierced section in the centre with a carved flower head....
£3,750.00
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Circa 1820. A monumental George the IV carved and gilded overmantel mirror probably by ’William Trotter of Edinburgh’ The top centered by a scallop shell with a seated cherub holding swags with lovely foliate carving...
£15,000.00
view detailsjohn hubbard antiques, kidderminster, united kingdom
An Edwardian mahogany Shield shaped dressing mirror in the Georgian style. Excellent condition with good original mirror plate. Size: 23.1/2" high x 15.1/2" wide x 7" deep. (87cm x 27.5cm x 17.5cm) Circa 1900/1910 Stock...
£95.00
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