Lot 155
155
Various Properties
AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD MIRROR with rectangular divided plate, the frame with beaded and stiff-leaf mouldings, the corners with tablets carved with paterae, with oak-leaf finials surmounted by a pair of doves on top of cupids, quiver and flaming torch amidst oak leaves, late 18th Century, regilt, restorations

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD MIRROR with rectangular divided plate, the frame with beaded and stiff-leaf mouldings, the corners with tablets carved with paterae, with oak-leaf finials surmounted by a pair of doves on top of cupids, quiver and flaming torch amidst oak leaves, late 18th Century, regilt, restorations
83 x 35in. (211 x 89cm.)

Lot Essay

The cresting of Hymen's tomb, Cupid's quiver, trailing oak branches and billing doves passing the laurel branch of peace, is emblematic of eternal love,and was a popular carvers' theme. Cf. a Piedmontese mirror, illustrated Graham Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, fig. 640

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