cheval mirror

Hope someone can help ID this mirror! KP

It's actually the top half of a Rococo dresser like this one.  However, yours probably had a lower level in the middle below the bottom of the mirror and the sides would have been raised and the supports under the candle stands would have rested on them.

I do think differently about this piece. The mirror is 64" tall. I don't think it is part of a dresser. How many cabinets of any type have a 5' mirror on top of them? I think it is a stand alone floor mirror. Comments still welcome. KP

I agree with John . . . looks to definitely be from what I call a "drop well dresser".  A 5-foot mirror is not uncommon...the dresser at the link below has a 5'-5" mirror.

http://tace.com/f/31226.html

- Jason

Thanks for the photo. I've never seen a 5' mirror on top of a bureau before. Ideas on value or manufacturer? Has a number 5 engraved into the back. KP

There doesn't appear to be anything that would definitively indicate the manufacturer.  It apears to have come from a fairly nice, average-quality dresser.  Value on something like this is outside of my comfort zone . . . I don't have any references for the "adaptive re-use" of a dresser mirror.  I picked up a nice rosewood cheval mirror (maybe ca. 1850) for $800 at the DuMouchelle auction about a year ago.  This is certainly the ballpark for nice cheval mirrors at auction.  Retail prices can get to be a little over $2,000.  

My guess is that the one you have shared here would have a hard time finding a market at an antique auction.  If I were selling this, I'd be thankful to get $100.  $200 might be possible in a retail shop, but, again, this is outside of my amateur-enthusiast knowledge.  

As a point of reference, over a year ago I bought a marble-top sideboard base (two drawers over two doors) with bookcase top (married up Victorian pieces) at the Pook & Pook auction for only $300 . . . it looks like a nice breakfront bookcase as the two pieces have near-matching eastlake trim and the same finish on the walnut.  Only on closer reflection does one ask, "why is there a marble top between the top and bottom?...and why do the two drawers have felt-lined flatware partitions?".  Point here being that married pieces and, by extension, adapted parts do not fetch much money.  

- Jason

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but the cheval mirror that I bought a year ago is at the link below.  I'd be curious if anybody agrees/disagrees with my ca. 1850 guess.  Rosewood construction with spiral-turned posts & stretcher.  Looks predominantly empire to me (1840s - 1850? - kind of some transitional rococo-revival-looking feet to it?), but perhaps the machinery needed for the turning wasn't available until later (?) 

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7124774

- Jason

Back to my mirror. Looked on liveauctioneers site but didn't find one like mine. Rococo carving may apply to my mirror. Looks like my carving is rococo with classical styling. Maybe 1840's?

My estimate for yours is 1860s to early 1870s.  It might be pushing into a Renaissance Revival Style (kind of late rococo revival, early renaissance revival).  Kind of hard to tell based on the mirror and candle brackets alone.

- Jason

Jason, I'd say you're pretty close in your guess. If I had to disagree, I'd say maybe late 1850s to ca. 1860.

But yeah.