Lot 61
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS
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This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal.… Read more PROPERTY FROM FARINGDON HOUSE, OXFORDSHIRE, LOTS 1-145
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, SICILIAN

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, SICILIAN
Each divided plate surrounded by a verre-eglomise border simulating porphyry and lapis-lazuli, the side angles applied with busts of Roman Emperors, later mirror plates, the baskets possibly later
75 x 42 ½ in. (190.5 x 108 cm.)
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This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’s will inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storage are set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere. Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com. If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Lots are not available for collection at weekends.

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Lot Essay

A pair of comparable mirrors, sold Christie’s, New York, 25 September – 26 September 2001, lot 271 ($18,800 including premium), were related to a suite of furniture made for the Prince of Palagonia's Drawing Room of the Villa Palagonia at Bagheria, near Palermo, Sicily. A chair from the suite is illustrated in A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, vol. II, Milan, 1984, p. 275, no. 629; other examples are in the Museum for Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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