MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN AUSTRIAN GILTWOOD AND ENGRAVED MIRROR
Mid-18th Century
The rectangular bevelled plate within a lappeted border, the frame inset with floral panels centred by a scallop-shell and the corners further inset with glass panels and leaf sprays, the cresting with central quartrefoil cartouches flanked by C-scrolls and surmounted by husk within a foliate sunburst, above two conforming side elements and the apron and terminating in an acanthus leaf boss, the cresting and apron re-supported, one small glass panel cracked, previously with further elements, restorations
80 in. x 32 in. (203 cm. x 81 cm.)

Literature

S. Roche, Mirrors, Paris, 1956, fig. 135.

Lot Essay

A very closely related mirror, with nearly identical glazed palmette to the top and with very similar glazed scrolls, is in the palais of the Archbishop, Trient (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, fig. 698).

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