Sale 2090
New York
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22 April 2008
Price realised
USD 5,625
Estimate
A LOUIS XV GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR LATE 18TH CENTURY AND POSSIBLY ORIGINALLY PART OF A BOISERIE The arched scrolling cresting centered with a shell emitting a floral spray above a cartouche form frame carved with floral sprays and leaftips the base centered with a shell and surrounding a later conforming mirror plate 53½ in. (136 cm.) high, 37 in. (94 cm.) wide
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