LATE 17TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF BURCHARD PRECHT

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A SWEDISH GILT-LEAD AND GREEN AND SILVER VERRE EGLOMISE MIRROR
Late 17th century, in the manner of Burchard Precht
The rectangular bevelled plate within a slanted florally decorated frame and surmounted by the cresting with central oval flanked foliate scrolls and surmounted by a floral vase
55in. (140cm.) high, 29in. (74cm.) wide

来源

Acquired from Ariane Dandois, Paris.

拍品专文

This elegant mirror displays many of the characteristics associated with the work of the sculptor and cabinet-maker Burchard Precht (d.1738) who arrived in Stockholm, and worked at Drottinghom Palace, from 1674. The mirror, with its intricately etched plates and gilt-lead frame featuring a double-scroll cresting, flower-filled vase and distinctive scroll corner clasps relates most closely to an example formerly in the collection of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, which was once thought to be Venetian (illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, volume II, New York, 1966, no. 209, pl. 395). Similar flower-filled vases and the same distinctive clasps also feature on an example illustrated in S. Roche et al, Mirrors, New York, 1985, col.pl.VII and cover illustration. Other related examples by Precht are illustrated in T. Sylvén and E. Welander-Berggren, Speglar Speglmakare & Fabrikörer i Sverige 1650-1850, Stockholm, 2000, pp.194, 196-197 and S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler fran Svenska Herremanshem, Stockholm, 1931, vol.I, figs. 335 and 337.

A mirror of a closely related design but with scarlet etched mirrored borders was sold from the John Hobbs Collection Part I, Phillips New York, 4 June 2002, lot 9.