antler standing mirror, germany ca. 1890

Large Antique Antler Standing Mirror, Germany ca. 1890

item e4928

A great antique Black Forest antler standing mirror manufactured in Germany around 1890. An oval wooden frame richly decorated with antlers from the deer, the fallow deer, wild boar tusks, and turned horn roses. A splendid addition to each rustic cabin arrangement. Very good condition, mirror replaced. Please contact us for a detailed condition report.

width: 31.5" (80cm)
height: 55.12" (140cm)
depth: 23.62" (60cm)

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The first antler furniture

Trophies of the chase have been used to decorate log cabins and hunting lodges for many a long years. Antlers and stuffed heads mounted on walls where the first hunting objects used to fashion homes. A hunting lodge replete with antlers and stuffed animals may probably have been the place where the first ideas for antler furnishings came up. Antler furniture are furniture which are either manufactured completely from e. g. stag antlers, or furniture which are decorated with antler pieces from the stag, deer, fallow deer... or veneered with sliced antler pieces to get a hunting design. Antler furniture are in addition often decorated with carved horn roses, wild boar tusks and horns from the ibex or chamois.