.jpg?w=1)
AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Details
A CHIPPENDALE INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT CONSTITUTION LOOKING-GLASS
American or English, late 18th century
The molded and gilded swan's-neck crest terminating floral and leaf-carved rosettes and centering a broad spread-winged American eagle perched on an orb above an architectural framework centering a rectangular mirror plate with carved and gilded slip flanked by floral, fruit and leaf fillets, on a shaped pendant
65in. high, 28in. wide
American or English, late 18th century
The molded and gilded swan's-neck crest terminating floral and leaf-carved rosettes and centering a broad spread-winged American eagle perched on an orb above an architectural framework centering a rectangular mirror plate with carved and gilded slip flanked by floral, fruit and leaf fillets, on a shaped pendant
65in. high, 28in. wide
Provenance
Mrs. Giles Whiting, New York
Literature
"A Houston Collection of American Antiques," Antiques (September 1975), p. 503, fig. I.