AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR, the later shaped rectangular plate within a mirrored border profusely carved with C-scrolls, acanthus and foliate trails and surmounted by an interlaced C-scroll cartouche flanked by further foliate trails, the pierced cresting in the form of a splayed beaded scallop-shell, on moulded plinth, with handwritten label to the reverse Sigr. Paolo Bossi via Pontaccio n. 1 Milano, mid-18th Century