Design 17/20: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Design 17/20: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from a Private Collection
A Continental Baroque carved and silvered-wood mirror, possibly German, mid-17th century
Lot Closed
May 24, 01:55 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
A Continental Baroque carved and silvered-wood mirror, possibly German, mid-17th century
the rectangular plate within an inner frame with foliate carving, the outer frame carved in high relief with birds and flowers, the apron with a mask and a bell-flower swag, the crest with a coronet and three large acanthus leaves, re-silvered
113cm. high, 90.5cm. wide;
3ft. 8 1/2 in. high, 2ft. 11 5/8 in. wide
The exuberant and distinctive carving style on this silvered mirror is unusual, but is closest in spirit to the carved mirrors produced in and around Germany in the latter part of the 17th century. For similar examples, see pl. 455 and 458 in Graham Child's World Mirrors (1990), produced in Flanders and Germany respectively. A splendid Czech example displaying similar leaves, birds and a coronet but on a generally larger scale, can be seen as pl. 678 in Heinrich Kreiseil's Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol I (1968).