A PAIR OF BAROQUE GILTWOOD AND GESSO WALL MIRRORS
A PAIR OF BAROQUE GILTWOOD AND GESSO WALL MIRRORS
PROBABY GERMAN OR DUTCH, C.1700 AND LATER
each with a rectangular plate, the frame decorated with 'C' scrolls, flower and winged cherubs, the pedimented surmount with billowing clouds (2)
70.5 x 50cm
Provenance
Purchased by the present vendor's family from H. W. Keil Ltd., Broadway, 19th November 1976.
Literature
The present lot shares an affinity with mirrors produced in Germany and Holland in the early 18th century. See Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, pp.222-23, figs. 458 & 459 for a mirror in the manner of Friedrich Unteutsch and a Dutch overmantel with similar cherub decoration.
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A PAIR OF BAROQUE GILTWOOD AND GESSO WALL MIRRORS
PROBABY GERMAN OR DUTCH, C.1700 AND LATER
each with a rectangular plate, the frame decorated with 'C' scrolls, flower and winged cherubs, the pedimented surmount with billowing clouds (2)
70.5 x 50cm
Provenance
Purchased by the present vendor's family from H. W. Keil Ltd., Broadway, 19th November 1976.
Literature
The present lot shares an affinity with mirrors produced in Germany and Holland in the early 18th century. See Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, pp.222-23, figs. 458 & 459 for a mirror in the manner of Friedrich Unteutsch and a Dutch overmantel with similar cherub decoration.