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Around 1810, England

Of giltwood

(height) 58.7 in (width) 36.6 in

(height) 149.00 cm (width) 93.00 cm

A Recency Convex Mirror

The turned circular moulded frames with concentric gilt highlights and reeded inner slip surround an original convex mirror plate. Surmounted by paired carved laurel leaves below an acanthine podium supporting a finely carved eagle from. Underneath decorated with two mythological horses on a base.

Literature

Child, Graham, World Mirrors 1650-1900, Londen 1990, p148-154.