Lot 435
435
THE PROPERTY OF A PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTOR
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD PIERGLASSES

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Details
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD PIERGLASSES
second quarter 19th century
Each rectangular divided plate within a ribbon-entwined frame, surmounted by a pierced cresting of confronting winged mythical beasts centering a flamed gadrooned urn with coiled snake handles, the sides with trailing fruiting garlands, on foliate-carved paw feet, minor repairs, both lacking some peripheral carved elements
93in. (236cm.) high, 36½in. (93cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The distinctive frames of these mirrors,with confronting griffins, trailing foliage to the sides, and scrolling lion's paw pendants, relates to a group of mirrors from Tuscany, notably from Florence and Lucca. Similar mirrors in the Palazzo Pitti,Florence,are illustrated in E.Colle, I mobili di Palazzo Pitti, 1992, pp.157-8, figs. 90-92. A pier table after a design by Stefano Tofanelli, with a frieze of closely related griffins among scrolling foliage, in the Palazzo Mansi, Lucca is illustrated in S.Chiarugi, Botteghe di Mobilieri in Toscana, 1994, p.79, fig.49