Lot Essay
Mirrors of this type were frequently executed en suite with a console table, often similarily carved. The decorative scheme is typical of the Roman productions of the second half 17th Century. A very similar mirror in the collection of the Marchese Patrizio Naro Montoro is illustrated in G. Lizzani, Il Mobile Romano, Milano, 1970, p. 68, ill. 105. The symmetrical combination of large acanthus leaves and smaller floral sprays is very similar to that of a design of 1698 by the Roman Filippo Passarini, from his pattern book, Le nuove invenzioni d'ornamenti.., (F. Sabatelli, ed., La cornice Italiana dal Rinascimento al neoclassico, Milan, 1992, p. 69, ill. 83, and in Lizzani, op.cit., p. XXV, plate XXXVII