A HEPPLEWHITE MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD INLAID LOOKING GLASS

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A HEPPLEWHITE MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD INLAID LOOKING GLASS
NEW YORK, 1780-1800

The gilded and rosette-carved scrolled crest centering an oval inlaid satinwood, urn patera supporting an elliptical carved and gilded central urn ornament with carved and gilded floral pendants. The line-inlaid rectangular frame with leaf-carved and gilded side pendants surmounts a scrolled base with urn-inlaid center ornament and encloses original looking glass with carved gilded borders

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Israel Sack
Mitchell Taradash
Israel Sack

拍品专文

With its pendant floral sides, shaped base and geometric inlaid surround, this mirror employs the decorative motifs of both the rococo and classical design. Although a comparable example was regionally attriubuted to Massachusetts (see Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period. (New York, 1966), fig. 216), the majority of these forms appear to have been manufactured in New York. See Conger and Rollins, Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State ( New York, 1991), fig. 93; American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, no. 7, p. 150, fig. 408, as well as no. 12, p. 281, fig. 690; as well as Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses, (New Haven, 1992), p. 313, fig. 175.