Lot Essay
A related pair are in Empire Hall at the Winterthur Museum.
Details
A CLASSICAL CARVED AND GILT-PAINTED PIER MIRROR
PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1830
The ring-turned and acanthus-carved pediment above a frieze embellished with scalloped carved shell over a rectangular frame enclosing rectangular glass flanked by ring-turned and acanthus-carved balusters on square corner blocks embellished with floral medallions --60½ x 31½in.
PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1830
The ring-turned and acanthus-carved pediment above a frieze embellished with scalloped carved shell over a rectangular frame enclosing rectangular glass flanked by ring-turned and acanthus-carved balusters on square corner blocks embellished with floral medallions --60½ x 31½in.
Provenance
Robert Trump, 1980
Literature
Allison M. Eckardt, "Living With Antiques: A collection of American neoclassical furnishings on the East Coast," The Magazine Antiques (May, 1987)p. 862, pl. VI.