A Dutch giltwood mirror

This mirror with its hipped arched top and scrolling cresting is related to Dutch examples of the same period which were inspired by the designs of Daniel Marot. However although it follows the same basic shape of most Dutch examples, the exuberant cresting, with its perching birds and cornucopiae and the bolder scrolling peripheral carving point towards the possibility of a North German origin. Furthermore the waved foliate apron is unusual, on most Dutch examples this is a continuaton of the straight sides.

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