LATE 17TH CENTURY, EITHER ENGLISH OR GERMAN

The triumphal-arched mirror frame, designed in the Louis Quatorze manner, is enriched with tablets of flowered-ribbon guilloche and festooned with Roman acanthus accompanying Ceres' fruit and flower basket of 'Abundance'. Its ornament derives from the Nouveaux Livre d'Ornements, pour l'utilitee des sculpteurs, et Orfevres, issued circa 1700 by Daniel Marot (d. 1752) 'Architect' to William III. This pattern of serpentine-trussed head-plate featured on a pair of Vauxhall mirror-bordered pier-glasses sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 April 1982, lot 45.