• 9287

    A GEORGE II PADOUK AND GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR

    English. Circa 1730

    Measurements

    Height: 74 1/2" (189 cm)
    Width: 33 1/4" (84.5 cm)
    Depth: 2 1/2" (6 cm)

    Research
    Of padouk and giltwood. The divided original mirror plates arched in the upper section with foliate molding to the border in a rectangular frame surmounted by a shaped cresting centered by a pierced flowerhead flanked by hanging garlands with pierced scrolling stylized elements above, the sides with hanging garlands, the whole terminating in a shaped apron with scrolling stylized decoration. Possibly some of the decorative elements were amended later in the 18th or early 19th century.

     

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