CIRCA 1720, POSSIBLY NORTH GERMAN

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A Dutch giltwood mirror
Circa 1720, possibly North German
The shaped arched bevelled rectangular plate within a moulded frame decorated with foliate scrolls and surmounted by a bold cresting of scrolling feathers and lambrequins, issuing from a canopy flanked to either side by a perching bird, above a waved and stepped apron with floral shoots and acanthus scrolls, losses to the extremities, minor losses to the gilding, inscribed on a Rijksmuseum label and in paint to the back R.B.K. 1954-12
180 cm. high x 86 cm. wide

Provenance

E. Gutmann, Berlin.
F.B.E. Gutmann, Heemstede.
With J.W. Böhler, Munich, 1942.
With K. Haberstock, Berlin, 1942.
Sonderauftrag, Linz
The Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, no. NK3183).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1960 until restituted to Gutmann's heirs in 2002.

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Lot Essay

This mirror with its hipped arched top and scrolling cresting is related to Dutch examples of the same period which were inspired by the designs of Daniel Marot. However although it follows the same basic shape of most Dutch examples, the exuberant cresting, with its perching birds and cornucopiae and the bolder scrolling peripheral carving point towards the possibility of a North German origin. Furthermore the waved foliate apron is unusual, on most Dutch examples this is a continuaton of the straight sides.

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