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A FEDERAL GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE LOOKING GLASS
AMERICAN, 1790-1810
The spreadwing eagle clutching a spherule-hung chain on a rectangular spherule set on a rocky plinth flanked by acanthus-carved scrolls above a circular molded frame set with gilt spherules enclosing a conforming convex glass with gilt-leaf carved and reeded and ebonized surround, the whole flanked by two scrolling candlearms over a spreading gilded and foliate-carved pendant base--42¼in. high, 25in. wide
AMERICAN, 1790-1810
The spreadwing eagle clutching a spherule-hung chain on a rectangular spherule set on a rocky plinth flanked by acanthus-carved scrolls above a circular molded frame set with gilt spherules enclosing a conforming convex glass with gilt-leaf carved and reeded and ebonized surround, the whole flanked by two scrolling candlearms over a spreading gilded and foliate-carved pendant base--42¼in. high, 25in. wide