A GERMAN GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR with later arched rectangular plate, the frame carved with bullrushes and headed by acanthus scrolls, rockwork and flowerheads, with later back, mid-18th Century

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A GERMAN GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR with later arched rectangular plate, the frame carved with bullrushes and headed by acanthus scrolls, rockwork and flowerheads, with later back, mid-18th Century
71 x 31½in. (180 x 80cm.)

Lot Essay

This pier-glass, with its upspringing bullrush and acanthus-scrolls, relates to the oeuvre of Johann Georg Ziegler (cf. a pier-gable and glass by his workshop in the Eremitage bei Bayreuth, illustrated in Heinrich Kreisel, Die Kunst des Duetschen Möbels, vol. 2, fig. 700)

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