Lot 113
113
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN OR FRENCH PARCEL-GILT, BLUE AND RED-PAINTED PIER-GLASSES
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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN OR FRENCH PARCEL-GILT, BLUE AND RED-PAINTED PIER-GLASSES

CIRCA 1870, IN THE MANNER OF VIOLLET LE-DUC

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN OR FRENCH PARCEL-GILT, BLUE AND RED-PAINTED PIER-GLASSES
CIRCA 1870, IN THE MANNER OF VIOLLET LE-DUC
Each with a rectangular plate, refreshments to the decoration
73¼ x 45 in. (186 x 114 cm.) (2)
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These mirrors are embellished with cluster columned pilasters, cusped arches and rich foliate friezes. Their antiquarian style reflects the Gothic manner adopted in the 1840s by such architects as Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc (d.1879), perhaps most spectacularly at his 'renovation' of the chateau of Pierrefonds near Compiègne and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

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