A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD MIRROR

CIRCA 1775

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A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD MIRROR
Circa 1775
The later rectangular plate within a guilloche carved border, surmounted by acanthus-sheathed scrolls, centering a vase on a platform held aloft by a laurel leaf cluster, each volute corner set with a flower, from which depends a garland, the bottom centered with similar garlands, on outcurved reeded bracket feet
75in. (190.5cm.) high, 32in. (82cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The present mirror shares its guilloche-carved border and outcurved reeded bracket feet with two other North Italian mirrors of almost exactly the same design illustrated in Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, 1990, figs. 627-28.

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