A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880

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A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880Origin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 63 Depth: 2. 5 Width: 47 The large and wonderfully decorative overmantle mirror, at over five feet high, having the original heavy mercury glass plate surrounded by an acanthus giltwood and gesso frame to a gadrooned border terminating in a naturalistic scrolled shell cresting, the whole surviving from 3rd republic France. The original mirror plate has attractive foxing,

Origin: EnglishPeriod: George IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c

in which the exposed parts shall have in-turned seams

The reverses to the specimens have some loss as photographed with one having lost a few sections to its back but largely they remain intact

King William IV

The half-length portrait of a nude and bearded man with his arm held aloft

5” at gallery or 29” at top

Period: Mid/Late 19thC

having a later one plank top

16 Old Bond Street until 1834

In as found condition the piece remains un-cleaned or un-restored

This proves a very attractive architectural element that has a real gravitas

The series of twenty blackface postcards of children acting and posing in different settings