A SWEDISH GILT-LEAD MIRROR

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A SWEDISH GILT-LEAD MIRROR
Early 18th Century
The rectangular bevelled plate within a moulded foliate-cast slip and bevelled mirrored border with flanking pilaster strips, the pierced foliate and Composite capitals surmounted by gadrooned urn-finials carved with an imperial profile medallion, above a stylized scallop-shell, the ogee arched cresting with further later bevelled plate within a mirrored border surmounted by a bust of Diana standing upon a spreading socle with putto relief and flanking floral garlands, restorations, re-gilt, the mirrored borders partially replaced, the main plate early 18th Century and re-silvered
42 in. x 25 in. (119.5 cm. x 65 cm.)

拍品专文

This pier-glass's mirrored frame, surmounted by sacred urns flanking a serpentined and triumphal-arched head-glass springing from flowered volutes framing a bust of Venus, is designed in the Louis XIV antique or Roman manner, such as Daniel Marot (d. 1752), architect to King William III popularised in his Nouveaux Livre d'Ornements pour l'utilitée des sculpteurs et Orfèvres, issued around 1700. Its distinctive form and gilt-lead mounts show the influence of the sculptor and cabinet-maker Burchard Precht of Bremen, who established his workshop in Stockholm in 1674 and supplied furnishings for Drottningholm Palace.

A Swedish mirror with closely related brackets to the sides was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 30 October 1993, lot 311, while a further mirror with nearly identical vase and additional handles to the top was sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 31 March 1995, lot 89.