A NORTH ITALIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY MIRROR

PROBABLY TUSCANY, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY MIRROR
Probably Tuscany, Mid-19th century
The later arched plate within a surround decorated with a double zig-zag, surmounted by an arch decorated with a rose window and undulating trim set with star pendentives, flanked by canted Solomonic pilasters surmounted by spires, each topped with a turned urn finial, on a base decorated with box marquetry, inscribed twice OMEGA 4121 and with indistinct Italian inscriptions
89in. (226cm.) high, 43in. (110cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The overall form and inlaid geometric decoration of this mirror relate it to the shrine made to contain the will of the writer Giovanni Boccacio, executed by Antonio Rossi in 1847, a drawing for which is in the State Archives, Siena, and is reproduced in S. Chiarugi, Botteghe di Mobilieri in Toscana 1780-1900, Florence, 1994, p. 207.

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