A PAIR OF SWEDISH BRASS-MOUNTED, WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT GIRANDOLE MIRRORS...
Each with a bow, quiver and arrows at the cresting, the corners with gilt foliate devices, the lower edges with rounded blocks issuing candle-arms suspending glass drops, the backs incised with Roman numerals, one mirror inscribed 'No. 1', each with a partial old label to reverse, the larger label inscribed 'Trichōr / Margarita ō Dika Nanek'
301⁄4 in. (77 cm.) high, 231⁄2 in. (60 cm.) wide
Provenance
With Rehns Antikhandel, Stockholm.
Property from the H.M. Luther Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 13 April 2016, lot 19 ($16,250).
Lot Essay
Two mirrors by Johan Martin Berg and a pair by Eric Wahlberg and Lago Lundén, all sharing with the present lot their horizontal orientation, and mounted with candle-arms, are illustrated in Torsten Sylvén and Elsebeth Welander-Berggen, Speglar: Spegelmakare & Fabrikörer i Sverige 1650-1850, Stockholm, 2000, pp. 89. and 230, respectively.
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Each with a bow, quiver and arrows at the cresting, the corners with gilt foliate devices, the lower edges with rounded blocks issuing candle-arms suspending glass drops, the backs incised with Roman numerals, one mirror inscribed 'No. 1', each with a partial old label to reverse, the larger label inscribed 'Trichōr / Margarita ō Dika Nanek'
301⁄4 in. (77 cm.) high, 231⁄2 in. (60 cm.) wide
Provenance
With Rehns Antikhandel, Stockholm.
Property from the H.M. Luther Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 13 April 2016, lot 19 ($16,250).
Lot Essay
Two mirrors by Johan Martin Berg and a pair by Eric Wahlberg and Lago Lundén, all sharing with the present lot their horizontal orientation, and mounted with candle-arms, are illustrated in Torsten Sylvén and Elsebeth Welander-Berggen, Speglar: Spegelmakare & Fabrikörer i Sverige 1650-1850, Stockholm, 2000, pp. 89. and 230, respectively.
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