A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN LE NOVE FAIENCE MIRRORS

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN LE NOVE FAIENCE MIRRORS
MID-18TH CENTURY

Each with shaped plate engraved with various gods on cartouche-shaped brackets, framed by scrolling foliage and flowers, the border with painted flowers and with foliage, surmounted by an acanthus spray centred by a band of pearls, the apron terminating in a grotesque mask with fan-shaped headdress, restorations and chipped, one plate cracked, variations in decoration, formerly with candle-branches, one mirror inscribed to the reverse in black ink A 10. Marzo 1807. Queste Placche in N. 6 quali erano rotte furono fatte accommodare per commissione ... Niccola Enfravoli dal Palazzo di Monte Cassiano ... furono ... Poi furono da me dorate ... perche la prima doratura era (quasi) affatto (consumata)
circa 28in. x 15in. (71cm. x 38cm.) (4)

Provenance

Niccola Enfravoli, Palazzo di Monte Cassiano, Italy

Lot Essay

These mirrors originate from the Le Nove factory in Bassano, Veneto. Two virtually identical mirrors are illustrated in G. Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, 1990, figs. 574-575. A pair, with slight variations in decoration and still retaining their original candlebranches, is illustrated in G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1958, pl. CCLXII.

Related pairs were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 19 March 1992, lot 152, at Sotheby's London, 9 December 1994, lot 146

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