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Antique Large 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-quality Simple Design
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Antique Large 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-quality Simple Design

19th century
For Sale by Prior and Willis
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Large Antique late 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-Quality Simple Design

This wall mirror features a simple yet striking design, making it a captivating addition to any suitable space. The frame is solid with no loose joints, ensuring durability.

The mirrored glass is in good condition, showing light oxidation, shadowing, and other age-related imperfections typical of a piece of this age.

Dimensions:

Overall: Height 93cm, Width 68cm, Depth 4cm

Mirrored Glass: Height 73cm, Width 49cm

The frame is in good antique condition, with its original worn and patinated finish. It displays characteristic signs of age, including knocks, marks, wear, losses, repairs, alterations, partial refinishing, and touch-ups. The back has a few historic extinct woodworm holes that have been treated for preservation.

Stock No. 8535.

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Prior and Willis has dated this Silver Gilt Overmantel Mirror to the 19th Century.

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SA1088656
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Description
Large Antique late 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-Quality Simple Design
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This wall mirror features a simple yet striking design, making it a captivating addition to any suitable space.
Prior and Willis

The frame is solid with no loose joints, ensuring durability.

fig 1. A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame.
fig 1. Antique Large 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-quality Simple Design

The mirrored glass is in good condition, showing light oxidation, shadowing, and other age-related imperfections typical of a piece of this age.

Dimensions:

Overall: Height 93cm, Width 68cm, Depth 4cm

Mirrored Glass: Height 73cm, Width 49cm

fig 2. A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame.
fig 2. Antique Large 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-quality Simple Design

The frame is in good antique condition, with its original worn and patinated finish. It displays characteristic signs of age, including knocks, marks, wear, losses, repairs, alterations, partial refinishing, and touch-ups. The back has a few historic extinct woodworm holes that have been treated for preservation.

fig 3. A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame.
fig 3. Antique Large 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-quality Simple Design

Stock No. 8535.

We offer a 30-day no-quibble money-back guarantee. Competitive shipping is available within the UK and worldwide. For shipping quotes outside the UK, please email us with your full address and contact details.

Date of Manufacture

Prior and Willis has dated this Silver Gilt Overmantel Mirror to the 19th Century.

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Archive I A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame.

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Archive II A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame. View II
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A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame.
Antique Large 19th Century Silver Gilt Overmantle Wall Mirror – High-Quality Simple Design
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A 19th-century silver gilt overmantel mirror featuring rounded top corners, incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner frame.
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  • ObjectMirrors
  • Period19th century
  • StyleLouis Philippe
  • MaterialWood, Gesso, Silver Leaf, Glass
  • ColourSilver
  • MotifsRounded upper corners, beaded inner border, incised linear moulding

This nineteenth-century Louis Philippe overmantle mirror adopts a simple French chateau style. Constructed from wood and gesso, the frame wears a silver leaf finish with a worn, patinated appearance displaying knocks, marks, wear, losses, repairs, alterations, partial refinishing, and touch-ups, along with treated historic extinct woodworm holes on the back. It incorporates rounded upper corners, an incised linear moulding, and a beaded inner border enclosing mirrored glass that exhibits light oxidation, shadowing, and age-related imperfections. Overall dimensions measure 93 cm high, 68 cm wide, and 4 cm deep, while the mirrored glass measures 73 cm high and 49 cm wide. Positioned in a home today, this piece works best above the mantel in a living room, dining room, or hallway. The sturdy, solid frame contains no loose joints, providing reliable durability for daily interior placement. Placing it over a fireplace or console table reflects ambient light and creates a sense of depth in traditional or transitional living spaces.

FAQs

A Louis Philippe overmantel mirror is a 19th-century French mirror style characterised by rounded upper corners, a flat base designed to sit directly above a fireplace mantelpiece, and understated frame mouldings coated in gold or silver leaf.

These mirrors were traditionally constructed from carved wood frames covered with layers of plaster gesso and clay bole, finished with water-gilded silver leaf and fitted with silvered or mercury glass plates.

Authentic period examples generally display hand-cut pine or oak backboards, natural wear revealing the red or grey clay bole beneath the leaf, and light foxing or oxidisation within the mirror glass.

Position the mirror directly above a fireplace or contemporary sideboard to serve as an architectural focal point, pairing the aged metallic patina with minimalist furnishings and modern neutral colour palettes.

Dust the frame using a soft, dry camel-hair brush, avoiding liquid cleaners or abrasive cloths that can dissolve or strip delicate gesso and silver leaf finish.
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