Lot Essay
After a model by the Italian sculptor Flaminio Vacca. Known as the Medici lions, it is based on the left-hand example of a pair which flank the entrance to the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.
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LATE 19TH CENTURY
Details
A LOUIS XVI STYLE GILTWOOD MIRROR
Late 19th Century
The rectangular plate with leaf tip and beaded inner slip cornered with patina, the outer surround of ribbon twist and egg-and-draft molding, probably originally a picture frame
77½in. (196.9cm.) high, 58¼in. (148cm.) wide
Late 19th Century
The rectangular plate with leaf tip and beaded inner slip cornered with patina, the outer surround of ribbon twist and egg-and-draft molding, probably originally a picture frame
77½in. (196.9cm.) high, 58¼in. (148cm.) wide
Provenance
The Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1996, lot 71