A Very Large 19thC French Giltwood & Gesso Pier Mirror c.1880

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A Very Large 19thC French Giltwood & Gesso Pier Mirror c.1880Origin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 106 Width: 24. 75 The near nine foot tall giltwood and gesso framed pier looking glass with the original arched and foxed mirror plate surmounted by a bow tied ribbon, with egg and dart cornice surviving from late nineteenth century France. The mirror is in very attractive and decorative condition. The original plate glass is nicely foxed with an even spread to the whole

An albatross appears and leads them out of the Antarctic but

her mouth open

The choice of subject could be seen as influenced by Edgar Degas

Poker work

It was to become second only to Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire as the most important Cistercian monastery in the country

due to reliance on these objects as motifs of decoration as we see here in our console table

There are also “G Rowney and Co 64 Oxford Street London” stamps

bordered by gilt edged ebonised frames by Ernst Schotte & Co (1855-1912) Berlin

particularly when set against a backdrop of banal twenty-first century advertising

A good decorative statement piece of versatile furniture

set in the Johnston Sans typeface

was Head of the Cabinet Design Department