Louis XVI Style Painted Console and Mirror

An important 18th century Italian giltwood mirror over a conforming demilune giltwood console table having a white marble top. The table has a carved open work apron with decorative circles framing rosettes joined with leaf work, large carved rosettes top the circular fluted and tapering legs. The tall rectangular mirror...

A rare, unique and dramatic pair of Rococo style marble topped giltwood triangular shaped consoles and complimentary slightly elliptical giltwood mirrors. The four pieces are believed to be northern Italian most likely from the Venetian region. The design and carving of the superstructure presented with bunches of grapes, vine leaves, branches and twigs. A winged dragon is shown swirling around and down the central leg of each console. The three legs are joined with a lower stretcher are all presented as vine tree trunks from which germinate more grape leaves and branches. They both have shaped red/grey mottled marble tops. The consoles show more signs of early to mid-18th century Rococo chinoiserie influence. The mirrors were likely made slightly later in the 19th century but in the same Italian region, and appear to have a more Japanese influence in their design especially the hawk/eagle leaning over the top of the mirror. The giltwood frames of the mirrors are completely covered with gilded branches and leaves. On the left side of each mirror is a 'fantastical' dragon-bird, his huge wings spread out and his long tail clinging around the lower branches. He looks up into the eyes of the top hawk/eagle who appears ready to attack the dragon-bird. The whole is a real virtuoso display of carving and whimsical Rococo design. Chippendale in England and his contemporaries were some of the first cabinet makers to design furniture in the Rococo style, the term taken from the French 'Rocaille' (rockwork), as in fantasy constructions such as grottoes. The style originated in France early in the 18th century when there was a reaction against the weighty classicism of the Baroque style. The consequent taste was for something lighter representing an escape from the stifling, self-conscious grandeurs of the Louis XIV period. As pioneered by designers such as Jean Berain and Pierre Lepautre...

A fine quality late 18thC Adam period demi-lune console table; the entire table is painted a cream colour, the four shaped and tapered legs decorated with gilded wood fillets; the frieze is fluted all round with large gilded patterae above each leg. The painted top has an outer green banding decorated with garlands of flowers and gilding, the back of the painted top has a neoclassical fresco; depicting a classically draped winged Goddess surrounded by cherubs, flowers and scrolling, in the manner of Angelica Kaufmann...

The Louis XVI style dessert table is made of mahogany, the top section richly decorated with gilded bronze Vitruvian scrolls and other decorative mounts, all of Dasson or Linke quali...

Elegant French Louis XVI style carved giltwood and painted Trumeau mirror, circa 1900. The mirror is surmounted with a gilt acanthus inspired crest decorated in a foliate motif above a shaped panel with a painted canvas tapestry...

Louis XVI style gilt wood wall or console mirror A sleek French oval gilt wood wall mirror having a clean center mirror panel framed in a g...

Louis XVI Style Gilt Wood Pier, Console, Wall Mirror, Beveled, Late 19th Early 20th Century. A large and impressive wall or console mirror having a center clean beveled mirror f...

19th Century French Louis XIV Painted Mirror features a glorious display of sculpture on top with a lovely patinaed painted finish that creates a timeless look. Intriguing motifs ha...