A VIENNESE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR with rectangular plate, the cresting with pediment centred by a Bacchic mask above a tablet mounted with Cupid and Psyché, circa 1830

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A VIENNESE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR with rectangular plate, the cresting with pediment centred by a Bacchic mask above a tablet mounted with Cupid and Psyché, circa 1830
62in. x 22½in. (157.5cm. x 57cm.)

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The bas-relief of Cupid embracing Psyche at Hymen's altar appears on two desks in the Austrian Decorative Arts Museum, Vienna, dating from around 1810. See G. Himmelheber and H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Mobels, Munich, 1973, figs. 335 and 339

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