A SPANISH GILTWOOD AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED MIRROR LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE...
The central canted rectangular plate within a receding double mirrored border painted with red and white flowers, two labels to the back inscribed '4316' and '4595', a further inscribed 'No. 719'
291⁄4 in. (74.5 cm.) high, 263⁄4 in. (68 cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie Philippe Perrin, Paris.
Lot Essay
Similar mirrors include two possibly originally conceived as a picture frames, sold by Christie's, New York, 22 October 2024, lot 233 ($94,500) and Christie's, London, 7 April 2004, lot 381 (£4,780). For an example with canted corners similar to ours, see that sold from the Collection of Nelson Grimaldi Seabra, Christie's, New York, 22 October 2003, lot 81 ($41,825). For a related Spanish mirror of the same period, with octagonal outer slips, see G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, p. 324, fig. 734, who posits a connection between its geometricity and the region's Moorish architecture.
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The central canted rectangular plate within a receding double mirrored border painted with red and white flowers, two labels to the back inscribed '4316' and '4595', a further inscribed 'No. 719'
291⁄4 in. (74.5 cm.) high, 263⁄4 in. (68 cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie Philippe Perrin, Paris.
Lot Essay
Similar mirrors include two possibly originally conceived as a picture frames, sold by Christie's, New York, 22 October 2024, lot 233 ($94,500) and Christie's, London, 7 April 2004, lot 381 (£4,780). For an example with canted corners similar to ours, see that sold from the Collection of Nelson Grimaldi Seabra, Christie's, New York, 22 October 2003, lot 81 ($41,825). For a related Spanish mirror of the same period, with octagonal outer slips, see G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, p. 324, fig. 734, who posits a connection between its geometricity and the region's Moorish architecture.
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