A PAIR OF VICTORIAN OR FRENCH PARCEL-GILT, BLUE AND RED-PAINTED PIER-GLASSES

These mirrors are embellished with cluster columned pilasters, cusped arches and rich foliate friezes. Their antiquarian style reflects the Gothic manner adopted in the 1840s by such architects as Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc (d.1879), perhaps most spectacularly at his 'renovation' of the chateau of Pierrefonds near Compiègne and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.