A GILTMETAL CUT-BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID MIRROR of Louis XIV style, with an arched cresting hung with foliate swags and centred by a bead-framed mirrored oval flanked to each side by a flower-filled vase, the rectangular frame with a moulded border enclosing a bevelled mirror glass (part of cresting missing), late 19th Century

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A GILTMETAL CUT-BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID MIRROR of Louis XIV style, with an arched cresting hung with foliate swags and centred by a bead-framed mirrored oval flanked to each side by a flower-filled vase, the rectangular frame with a moulded border enclosing a bevelled mirror glass (part of cresting missing), late 19th Century
29½in. (75cm.) x 46½in. (118cm.)

Lot Essay

A mirror frame of this Louis XIV pattern with verre églomisé panels is illustrated F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. II, 1966

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