Lot Essay
A closely related mirror with a similar elaborately-carved cresting depicting Zeus in a horsedrawn chariot sold Christie's London, Quai d'Orsay, Paris - An apartment by Jacques Grange, 19 November 2010, lot 532.
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LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A NORTH GERMAN GILTWOOD MIRROR
LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The later bevelled rectangular plate within a scrolling flowering foliate frame, the pierced cresting vigorously carved with scrolling acanthus and plumes and centred with the goddess Juno with a peacock above a coat-of-arms with crescents within a cartouche surmounted by a count's coronet, flanked by a female figure and putto to her left and a male figure in armour to her right; the side elements possibly associated
77 ½ in. (197 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide
LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The later bevelled rectangular plate within a scrolling flowering foliate frame, the pierced cresting vigorously carved with scrolling acanthus and plumes and centred with the goddess Juno with a peacock above a coat-of-arms with crescents within a cartouche surmounted by a count's coronet, flanked by a female figure and putto to her left and a male figure in armour to her right; the side elements possibly associated
77 ½ in. (197 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide
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A closely related mirror with a similar elaborately-carved cresting depicting Zeus in a horsedrawn chariot sold Christie's London, Quai d'Orsay, Paris - An apartment by Jacques Grange, 19 November 2010, lot 532.