A fine and rare pair of 19th Century Gabriel Viardot carved mirrors

Finely carved wooden eagles holding original and distressed mirrors, entitled the moon and the stars.

French cabinetmaker and wood craftsman, Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906).

These are very rare and spectacular and will without doubt make an impression in any space. They both depict eagles in the German Black Forest style beautifully captured in beech wood with an expressive and energetic stance, carved with talons, wings and feathers and completed with two glass eyes.

Famed Parisian cabinetmaker and craftsman Gabriel Viardot was born in 1830. By the age of 19, he had worked as a furniture maker for the court of Napoleon III and was the head of a small team of sculptors, opening his own workshop in Paris in 1853. Throughout his career, his work was shown at various exhibitions across the globe for which Viardot was prized with several awards. By the 1880s, the workshop comprised of more than 90 furniture makers and sculptors trained by Viardot himself before the closure of the company following Viardot’s death in 1906.

Own these, before someone else does!

Simply exquisite..

Dimensions: Moon eagle 15.5” x 15.5” (39cm) Star eagle 17.5” x 17.5” (45cm)

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