Magnificent Viennese Salon Mirror, last third of the 19th century

Grand, state­ly salon mir­ror with ele­gant gild­ed wood (water-gild­ed) fin­ish, fea­tur­ing a fine­ly orna­ment­ed and pro­filed frame, rich­ly dec­o­rat­ed all around with del­i­cate flo­ral and foli­ate motifs.

The base on which the upper mir­ror sec­tion rests is slight­ly pro­filed and like­wise exe­cut­ed in gild­ed wood. At the low­er two cor­ners of the mir­ror are large, scrolled acan­thus leaf dec­o­ra­tions. The salon mir­ror is crowned by a large shell-shaped orna­men­tal ele­ment, flanked on both sides by a gar­land of flow­ers and leaves, and set upon the grace­ful­ly curved frame.

The orig­i­nal antique mir­ror plate is in beau­ti­ful con­di­tion, which alone rep­re­sents a rar­i­ty in this impres­sive size. The mir­ror offered here like­ly orig­i­nat­ed from a salon in a Vien­nese city palace, pos­si­bly from one of the Ringstrasse palaces, where mir­rors of this size were typ­i­cal­ly hung above a grand fire­place in one of the cer­e­mo­ni­al halls or recep­tion rooms.

Mag­nif­i­cent mir­rors of this style can still be found in the great Vien­nese palaces or in the state­ly res­i­dences of the aris­toc­ra­cy of the period.

Objects from a Vien­nese city palace rarely appear on the mar­ket and rep­re­sent a fine piece of Vien­nese his­to­ry. You will also find a com­pa­ra­ble mir­ror with sig­nif­i­cant Vien­nese prove­nance from the Palais Kin­sky in our col­lec­tion, please click HERE to review.