A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN MIRRORS

19TH CENTURY

细节

A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN MIRRORS
19th Century
Of Regence style, each with central shaped plate hung with draperies and tassels above a putto holding a flowerhead and within a mirrored strapwork border with caryatides to each side, surmounted by a moulded strapwork cornice with central lambrequined canopy, surmounted by two putti flanked by two scrolls, the base centred by an espagnolette mount and an acorn finial, one mirror plate cracked, the frame with some losses, one plate later
44½ in. x 28½ in. (113 cm. x 72 cm.) (2)

拍品专文

These girandoles, perhaps emblematic of Spring, have serpentined, flowered and acanthus-wrapped frames that are flanked by mirrorred pilasters springing from Venus-mask brackets and terminating in nymph-herms. Related mirrors of this distinctive cartouche-shaped form were sold by Mrs. M.L. Sangster in these Rooms, 8 July 1982, lot 109 and advertised by Crowther of Syon Lodge in Country Life, 6 November 1964, p.50.