A FEDERAL GILTWOOD AND VERRE EGLOMISE MIRROR

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A FEDERAL GILTWOOD AND VERRE EGLOMISE MIRROR
LABELLED "M. O'CONNER, " NEW YORK, 1790-1810

The molded cornice with outset corners hung with spherules above a frieze decorated with anthemia amid polygonal reserves flanked by dancing maenads above a panel painted with a bouquet of flowers within a lozenge reserve amid floral sprays over a rectangular plate centered by rope-carved colonettes with foliate capitals (repairs to maenads)--43 1/2 x 25 1/4in.

Lot Essay

Matthias O'Connor is known to have worked in New York from 1811 until circa 1855 as a looking glass maker and merchant. See Betty Ring, "Check List of Looking-glass and Frame Makers and Merchants Known by their Labels," Antiques (May, 1981), pp. 1178-1195.