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AN EARLY LOUIS XV GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR with central rectangular bevelled plate flanked by bevelled outer borders within an entrelac and rosette-beaded frame, the shaped cresting centred by a stylised foliate-clasp flanked by scrolling foliate arabesques, the pilaster-strips headed by stylised pierced Corinthian capitals flanked by bird-headed scrolled acanthus volute brackets, upon out-scrolled acanthus-carved bases, restorations, regilt

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR with central rectangular bevelled plate flanked by bevelled outer borders within an entrelac and rosette-beaded frame, the shaped cresting centred by a stylised foliate-clasp flanked by scrolling foliate arabesques, the pilaster-strips headed by stylised pierced Corinthian capitals flanked by bird-headed scrolled acanthus volute brackets, upon out-scrolled acanthus-carved bases, restorations, regilt
42½in. (108cm.) wide; 21½in. (181.5cm.) high

拍品专文

A closely related overmantel with pierced Corinthian capital-headed pilaster-strips is illustrated in G. Bac, 'Le cadre et le nois doré a travers les siècles' Exhibition Catalogue, p. 67, while related birds to the sides appear on a further overmantel (G.Bac op. cit. p. 68)