Live Auction 16023Interiors including Faringdon House, Oxfordshire
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS
Lot 61 PROPERTY FROM FARINGDON HOUSE, OXFORDSHIRE, LOTS 1-145

A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, SICILIAN

Closed12 April 2018

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GBP 10,625

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT PIER-MIRRORS
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, SICILIAN
Each divided plate surrounded by a verre-eglomise border simulating porphyry and lapis-lazuli, the side angles applied with busts of Roman Emperors, later mirror plates, the baskets possibly later
75 x 42 ½ in. (190.5 x 108 cm.)

Specialist note

A pair of comparable mirrors, sold Christie’s, New York, 25 September – 26 September 2001, lot 271 ($18,800 including premium), were related to a suite of furniture made for the Prince of Palagonia's Drawing Room of the Villa Palagonia at Bagheria, near Palermo, Sicily. A chair from the suite is illustrated in A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, vol. II, Milan, 1984, p. 275, no. 629; other examples are in the Museum for Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.