Lot 250
250
AN ITALIAN BAROQUE GILTWOOD AND SILVERED MIRROR

LATE 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ROME OR EMILIA

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AN ITALIAN BAROQUE GILTWOOD AND SILVERED MIRROR
Late 17th Century, possibly Rome or Emilia
The rectangular plate within a foliate-carved surround and lattice-incised frame surmounted by a pair of putti and blossoming foliage, the sides with similar blossoming folliage and scrolls and putti, the base with scrolls and a central putto, regilt with some traces of earlier gilding and silvering
68in. (174cm.) high, 53in. (135cm.) wide

Lot Essay

A design for a mirror frame with similar richly carved scrolling foliage and large scale flowerheads by the Roman designer Filippo Passarini appears in his Nuove inventioni d'ornamenti, 1698 (illustrated in A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Roma e il Regno delle Due Sicilie, Milan, 1984, vol. II, p. 70, fig. 124). A mirror with a similar exuberant frame of foliage, flowerheads and putti is illustrated in G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, p. 258, fig. 536. Another related mirror from Emilia is illustrated in G. Manni, Mille Mobili Emiliani, 1980, p.248, fig. 584.