Round + Oval & Rectangular Mirrors - Antique 1800's
Round, oval and rectangular mirrors from 1800's. Some beveled, some gold gilded, some wooden backed, some with flower designs, some Rococo designs, one gold gilded possibly from 1700s. All in very good to museum shape. $500 EACH, pick and choose.
They were bought by my parents in 1980's from auction of European antiques in New Orleans.
Unlike mirrors from Industrial Revolution on, these mirrors use glass that is much thicker and heavier and do not use aluminum based reflective material. They have silver (oldest ones) or tin and mercury backed.
The oldest one (almost certainly pre 1800s) in upper left corner has wooden frame made with water gilding thin layer of gold leaf that permeated the wood (has small damage to wooden design where gold has visibly penetrated in this area where design was nicked). The mirror glass has dimpling (probably hand blown and then flattened) and a silvered (silver applied) reflective coating with two typical black line imperfections. And mirror is wood backed. Thus this mirror was made sometime from the Renaissance to very very early 1800s. I suspect it was made in 1700's at the latest.
