A PAIR OF DIMINUTIVE FEDERAL CARVED GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS

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A PAIR OF DIMINUTIVE FEDERAL CARVED GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
LABELLED BY C.N. ROBINSON, PHILADELPHIA, 1813-1822

Each with carved spreadwing eagle holding a chain and ball in its beak standing on a shaped plinth with gilt spherules flanked by scrolled gilt acanthus leaves above a convex glass with circular molded frame hung with gilt spherules flanked by two scrolled candlearms with glass candlecups and cylindrical brass nozzles over an acanthus leaf-carved pendant, one bears label " C.N. Robinson carver and gilder, looking-glass and picture-frame manufacturer, no. 56, South Street, offers for sale, an assortment of girandoles, brackets, cornices, and etc. & etc., also a great variety of profile frames n.b. old glasses re-silvered"--36in. high, 21 1/2in. wide (2)

Lot Essay

Charles N. Robinson manufactured and sold looking glasses and picture frames in Philadelphia from 1811 to 1857, working at a shop at 56 South Street from 1813 until 1822. (See Peter L.L. Strickland, "Documented Philadelphia Looking Glasses, 1800-1850," Antiques (April, 1976), p. 794.