拍品专文
A related girandole mirror, with voluted pediment, architectural corners and fretted 'picturesque' ornament, is illustrated in F. L. Hinckley, Queen Anne and Georgian Looking Glasses, New York, 1987, fig. 143.
细节
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR
The rectangular plate within a foliate-carved slip and eared egg-and-dart moulding, the scrolled broken pediment with a plinth above an applied rocaille cartouche, the apron with brass candle-branches above a conforming cartouche and scrolled apron, the backboards replaced, originally with a further cresting, formally with a blackened surface now visible beneath the cartouches, possibly Irish
57¼ in. x 32 in. (145.5 cm. x 81 cm.)
The rectangular plate within a foliate-carved slip and eared egg-and-dart moulding, the scrolled broken pediment with a plinth above an applied rocaille cartouche, the apron with brass candle-branches above a conforming cartouche and scrolled apron, the backboards replaced, originally with a further cresting, formally with a blackened surface now visible beneath the cartouches, possibly Irish
57¼ in. x 32 in. (145.5 cm. x 81 cm.)