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A SWEDISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED MIRROR

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A SWEDISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED MIRROR
19th Century
The rectangular bevelled plate within a border engraved with arabesques and flanked by a cabochon band, surmounted by a mirrored cresting centred by a bevelled oval engraved with a fruiting laurel band and within guilloche bands, outlined by a panelled border, hung with foliate trails and surmounted by vases of flowers, the plate possibly replaced
52¼in. x 29½in. (133cm. x 74.5cm.)

Lot Essay

A closely related mirror of circa 1700, attributed to the Swedish craftsman and designer Gustaf Precht, is illustrated in G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, p. 297, fig. 678, and almost certainly again in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, no. 209. The pattern has been attributed to the Bremen cabinet-maker Burchard Precht, who established his workshop in Stockholm, and worked at Drottningholm Palace, in 1674. A mirror of almost identical design was anonymously sold in these Rooms, 15 December 1994, lot 489, while a further example was sold anonymously at Sotheby's London, 19 May 1995, lot 105.

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