Lot 139
139
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A SOUTH GERMAN REPOUSSE SILVERED-METAL MIRROR with later rectangular plate in a spreading frame and pierced surround, flanked by lions amidst scrolling foliage, the cresting with hounds barking at a monkey, the apron with similar hounds, late 17th Century, resilvered

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A SOUTH GERMAN REPOUSSE SILVERED-METAL MIRROR with later rectangular plate in a spreading frame and pierced surround, flanked by lions amidst scrolling foliage, the cresting with hounds barking at a monkey, the apron with similar hounds, late 17th Century, resilvered
28¾ x 23¾in. (73 x 60cm.)

Lot Essay

Designed in the Augsburg 'arabesque' manner, the scroleld Roman acanthus foliage and lion-supported escutcheons of this frame relate to Flemish patterns for 'compartments, shields, mantlings, foldige' in R. Prick's Ornaments of Architecture, 1674.

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