A CLASSICAL CARVED AND GILDED GIRANDOLE MIRROR

细节

A CLASSICAL CARVED AND GILDED GIRANDOLE MIRROR
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1800-1810

Surmounted by a carved spreadwing eagle on a gadrooned urn plinth with beaded base flanked by carved and molded acanthus leaves and rosettes and joined by a chair hung with pendant gilt spherules and carved gilt tassels above a circular reeded frame with swag decoration and set with gilt spherules around an egg-and-dart border enclosing a convex mirror with ebonized surround above a carved pendant swag set with tassels and centering two acanthus and rosette molded candlearms joined by a tassel decorated chair, with cut glass pendant drops, bobêche and candlecups --54in. high, 25¼in. diameter of glass

来源

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, September 29, 1987

拍品专文

An identical mirror from the Francis Tuckerman Parker House on Botts Court is illustrated on page 84 in Samuel Chamberlain, Salem Interiors: Two Centuries of New England Taste and Decoration (New York: Hastings House Publisher, 1950)