Live Auction 2105European Furniture, Works of Art, and Tapestries: Including Jansen: The Past Reimagined
A GERMAN GILTWOOD MIRROR
Lot 214

A GERMAN GILTWOOD MIRROR

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed7 October 2008

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A GERMAN GILTWOOD MIRROR
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With scalloped cresting topped with flower-filled baskets some replacements to corner mirror panels, regilt
60 in. (152.5 cm.) high, 31 in. (79 cm.) wide

The Collection of Arne Schlesch; Sotheby's, New York, 5 April 2000, lot 353.

Specialist note

This mirror, with its flower-filled baskets and scalloped cartouche, relates to mirrors made by the Lohr factory which was founded by Count Lothar Franz von Schönborn in 1698. Mirrors were primarily manufactured for his family residence, Schloss Pommersfelden in Franconia. Another mirror, with the same scalloped cresting surmounted with flower-filled baskets as well as a divided mirror plate is illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol. II, fig.215.