A CHIPPENDALE INLAID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT PIER MIRROR

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A CHIPPENDALE INLAID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT PIER MIRROR
AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, CIRCA 1790

The gilt broken swan's neck pediment terminating in rosettes flanking a gilt flower basket finial above an inlaid oval shell over a rectangular glass with carved and gilded surround flanked by gilt pendant foliage and fruit above a shaped pendant base with central inlaid shell--60in. high, 24 1/2in. wide

Lot Essay

With its gilt pendant floral sides, shaped pendant base and geometric inlay and surround, this mirror employs decorative motifs of both rococo and classical design. Although a comparable example was tentatively regionally attributed to Massachusetts (see, Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, (New York, 1966), fig. 216), the majority of other comparable American looking-glasses appear to have been manufactured in New York (see, Conger and Rollins, Treasure of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomtic Reception Rooms of the Department of State, (New York, 1991), fig. 93); as well as, American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, no. 7, p. 150, fig. 408 and no. 12, p. 281, fig. 690). (see also, The Girl Scout Catalogue, (New York, 1929), for an additional related looking-glass.)