拍品专文
Microanalysis shows the woods on this looking glass to be American white pine and cedrela, an imported tropical wood.
AMERICAN, 1720-1750
细节
A QUEEN ANNE MAHOGANY LOOKING GLASS
American, 1720-1750
The upswept scrolled pediment centering a shaped and mirrored panel engraved with a chinoisserie figure smoking a long-stemmed pipe under an umbrella, with tropical birds amidst elaborate scrolls over a cove-molded rectangular frame enclosing a conforming glass plate above a shaped pendant base
40in. high, 19in. wide
American, 1720-1750
The upswept scrolled pediment centering a shaped and mirrored panel engraved with a chinoisserie figure smoking a long-stemmed pipe under an umbrella, with tropical birds amidst elaborate scrolls over a cove-molded rectangular frame enclosing a conforming glass plate above a shaped pendant base
40in. high, 19in. wide