A CHIPPENDALE GILTWOOD AND MAHOGANY LOOKING GLASS

ENGLISH OR AMERICAN, CIRCA 1795

細節

A CHIPPENDALE GILTWOOD AND MAHOGANY LOOKING GLASS
English or American, circa 1795
The gilded swan's-neck pediment terminating in carved rosettes issuing foliate-carved devices and centering a carved giltwood spreadwinged eagle above a tympanum centering an applied gilded and oval frame flanked by applied foliate-carved embellishments all over a rectangular molded frame with gilded surrounds enclosing a glass plate flanked by scroll-carved ears and gilt foliate and pendant-carved fruit over a shaped pendant base
46 x 21in.

來源

Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Hansen, Grosse Pointe, Michigan

出版

Lita Solis-Cohen, "Living with Antiques: The Bryn Mawr Home of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Dawson Coleman," Antiques (April 1966), p. 576.

拍品專文

A closely related example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated in the Girl Scout Loan Exhibition catalogue (New York, 1929), no. 636. Another at Winterthur is illustrated in Charles Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York, 1966), p. 260, no. 212.