Lot 172
172
A LATE FEDERAL GILTWOOD AND EGLOMISE MIRROR, Portland, Maine, 1820-1830, the molded broken pediment hung with gilt spherules above an eglomise panel depicting a mother and child seated on a classical recamier over a rectangular mirror plate flanked by ring-turned pillasters above a molded base, bears original paper label on the reverse--31½in. x 19½in.

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A LATE FEDERAL GILTWOOD AND EGLOMISE MIRROR, Portland, Maine, 1820-1830, the molded broken pediment hung with gilt spherules above an eglomise panel depicting a mother and child seated on a classical recamier over a rectangular mirror plate flanked by ring-turned pillasters above a molded base, bears original paper label on the reverse--31½in. x 19½in.

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For a related example, see Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), p. 273, fig. 230.

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