Lot Essay
A closely related mirror, with similar mirror-plate scrolls and the mask to the top, is at castle Hluboka, Czech Republic (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, fig. 417).
MID-18TH CENTURY
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A BOHEMIAN GILTWOOD AND ENGRAVED MIRROR
Mid-18th Century
The rectangular bevelled plate within a lappeted border, the frame with inset strap-work panels and centered by husk cartouches and the eared corners with C-scrolls flanking a trefoil, the cresting with a maiden's mask issuing acanthus leaves and flowers and flanked by C-scrolls and pierced trellis above a central shaped cartouche flanked by further acanthus-wrapped C-scrolls, the sides with conforming elements and the apron with conforming cartouche and acanthus-wrapped scrolls, losses, the cresting resupported, one corner of the central plate cracked, the back inscribed in black pen 'S'
70 in. x 40 in. (178 cm. x 81 cm.)
Mid-18th Century
The rectangular bevelled plate within a lappeted border, the frame with inset strap-work panels and centered by husk cartouches and the eared corners with C-scrolls flanking a trefoil, the cresting with a maiden's mask issuing acanthus leaves and flowers and flanked by C-scrolls and pierced trellis above a central shaped cartouche flanked by further acanthus-wrapped C-scrolls, the sides with conforming elements and the apron with conforming cartouche and acanthus-wrapped scrolls, losses, the cresting resupported, one corner of the central plate cracked, the back inscribed in black pen 'S'
70 in. x 40 in. (178 cm. x 81 cm.)
Literature
S. Roche, Mirrors, Paris, 1956, fig. 136.