Lot Essay
This mirror is highly unusual in its use of multi-coloured cut-glass decoration, however blue glass beading is often seen on smaller Irish oval girandoles of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
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AN IRISH REGENCY GILTWOOD AND COLOURED-GLASS MIRROR
The rectangular plate in an amber-coloured faceted-cube glass border and patera and foliage-hung mirrored border, flanked on each side by fluted Egyptian herm pilasters, with a stepped cornice carved with foliage, on a plinth base, regilt, later backboards, the plate resilvered, some replacements to the coloured glass
49½ x 33 in. (126 x 84 cm.)
The rectangular plate in an amber-coloured faceted-cube glass border and patera and foliage-hung mirrored border, flanked on each side by fluted Egyptian herm pilasters, with a stepped cornice carved with foliage, on a plinth base, regilt, later backboards, the plate resilvered, some replacements to the coloured glass
49½ x 33 in. (126 x 84 cm.)
Special notice
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