Pair of Magnificent Oval Giltwood & Lozenge Irish Mirrors

A pair of magnificent giltwood and white and gilt-backed jewelled lozenge set Irish oval mirrors. Both mirrors retain their original antique mirror plates. These are elegant, eye-catching mirrors, the bejewelled frames giving their simple outline a most beautiful and scintillating allure. Fluted lozenges of silver-backed cut glass alternate with white glass studs, the four deeply cut grooves of each stud richly gilded, a continuous copper bezel outlining and holding the ‘jewels’ in place within the outer giltwood frame. Borders of faceted glass, either coloured or clear, were used by many Irish craftsmen during the boom in Irish glass towards the end of the 18th Century.