Rait Antiques & Interiors

Rait Antiques Family Business Est:1981 

 

Specialising in 18th & 19th Century Antiques, Mirrors & Decorative Objects  

A Important Thomas Johnson Giltwood Overmantle Mirror

 

Mirror taken from plate 34 in One Hundred & Fifty New Designs by Tho.Johnson Carver

"The whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture in the present tastes"   book by Robert Sayer Fleet Street London 1761

Thomas Johnson (born 1714; died after 1778) was a carver and a gilder. He is known to have supplied mirrors in the early 1760s through the London upholsterer George Cole of Golden Square, Soho, to Paul Methuen at Corsham Court, Wiltshire, and the Duke of Atholl at Blair Castle in the Scottish Highlands.