A George I giltwood and gesso mirror, attributed to John Belchier circa 1725

the shaped and bevelled plate in a foliate-incised frame with a shaped crest flanked by paper scrolls centred on a plumed mask, the shaped apron with a shell and void panels for candle arms, re-gilt

This regilded mirror is in good order. It is nice quality and may well have had candle branches originally. There is deliberate wear and rubbing to give the regild the illusion of age.
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John Belchier (d.1753) is first listed in 1717 as a cabinet-maker at 'The Sun' on the South side of St. Paul's Churchyard and he described himself as 'a cabinett and looking glafs-maker' [SIC] who '...grinds and makes all sorts of fine peer and chimney glafses and glafs sconces...at reasonable rates.' [SIC]  His most major commission was for John Mellor at Erddig, Wales, a commission which included a State bed, pier tables and numerous pier glasses, along with an impressive japanned bureau-cabinet. Significantly it is his bureau-cabinets that are most frequently labelled, and due to his ability to work with glass all have mirrored doors to the cabinet sections. His work at Erddig is discussed by Martin Drury, 'Early Eighteenth-Century Furniture at Erddig', Apollo, July 1978, pp. 46-48, in which many of the pier-mirrors are illustrated. A pair of similar mirrors were sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 21 November 1985, lot 111. Another pair, attributed to John Belchier, are illustrated in Ronald Phillips Ltd., catalogue April 2005, pp. 90-93. Also see a further mirror, also with tightly wound scrolls to its cresting and attributed to Belchier was sold, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2010, lot 8.