Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
PROPERTY FROM THE WOLF FAMILY COLLECTION
A George III Overmantel Mirror, Circa 1801
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 20, 06:48 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gilt-decorated and painted pine
Height 34 1/4 in. by Width 58 1/2 in. (87 X 148.6 cm.)
William Jacobs, Newton, Massachusetts
Edward and Cassandra Stone, Boston, Massachusetts
Wolf Family Collection No. 480 (acquired from the above on August 5, 1980)
A similar overmantel mirror hung in the Pierce Nichols House in Salem, Massachusetts and is pictured in Edgar G. Miller, Jr., American Antique Furniture, pl. 1231, p. 673. Wood samples from the reverse side were sent to Harry Alden for testing and determined to be red pine.