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A FEDERAL GILT PIER LOOKING GLASS
AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, 1800-1810
The pediment with outset corners above a cove-molding with spheres over a frieze with carved ebonized crossed ferns tied with rope and tassels surmounted by a star, flanked by ebonized figures in classical garb above cluster-columns with flared capitals and stepped bases centering a cove-molded base rail (glass replaced)--20in. wide, 32in. high
AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, 1800-1810
The pediment with outset corners above a cove-molding with spheres over a frieze with carved ebonized crossed ferns tied with rope and tassels surmounted by a star, flanked by ebonized figures in classical garb above cluster-columns with flared capitals and stepped bases centering a cove-molded base rail (glass replaced)--20in. wide, 32in. high
Provenance
Berry B. Tracy
Literature
A federal mirror with related central foliate motif is illustrated in, Nutting, Furniture Treasury, vol. 2 (New York, 1928), fig. 3094.