AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A FEDERAL GILTWOOD AND EGLOMISE PIER GLASS
AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
50 ½ in. high, 23 in. wide

Provenance

Charles Woolsey Lyon, Inc., New York, June 1931

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Lot Essay

For two similar looking glasses with triangular crest panels, see Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack, Inc., vol. 4, p. 988, P3764 and vol. 5, p. 1160, P4056. The first displays a closely related urn with snake-form handles in the crest panel and the second bears similar urn and flame finials.

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