A Stunning Large 19thC French Giltwood & Gesso Wall Mirror c.1880

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A Stunning Large 19thC French Giltwood & Gesso Wall Mirror c.1880Origin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 56. 5" Width: 42. 5" Depth: 2" The large and wonderfully evocative giltwood and gesso framed rectangular mirror, standing at nearly five feet high, with corvetto ball inner border to outer floral garlanded borders, the original mercury glass mirror plate now beautifully clouded and foxed with age, the whole surviving from late nineteenth century France. The mirror is in

The very well depicted head and shoulders portrait of a young and beautiful British girl

Normandy and Aquitaine - which were associated with the English crown

This drawing depicts the bustling activity

armillary spheres

all against foliate grounds

helps to date the head to 1250-1350

he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land

The poetry of Baudelaire and much of the literature in the latter half of the century (or "fin de siècle") were often characterised as "decadent" for their lurid content or moral vision

which span the years 1802-08 are as follows:

it is tired and lived in with some damage to the gesso

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had

to back when it was made two hundred years ago

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