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A LOUIS XIV REPOUSSE GILT-BRASS MIRROR
Lot 6

A LOUIS XIV REPOUSSE GILT-BRASS MIRROR

LATE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NORTH EUROPEAN

Closed19 May 2021

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GBP 30,000

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A LOUIS XIV REPOUSSE GILT-BRASS MIRROR
LATE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NORTH EUROPEAN
The central rectangular bevelled plate within a mirrored frame applied with angle scrolling foliate clasps with lilies, zoomorphic scrolls and crowned cipher, the shaped mirrored cresting conformingly applied with scrolling flowering foliage converging on a crowned cipher
65 in. (165.5 cm.) high; 42 in. (107 cm.) wide

Christie's Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 209 (42,000 EUR).

Specialist note

This finely worked repousse mirror with shaped cresting adorned with a central crowned cipher is an excellent example of a popular type produced in Flanders in the late Baroque period. A closely related mirror, circa 1685, is illustrated in G. Child Les Miroirs, 1650-1900, Flammarion, Paris, 1991, p. 221, fig. 451.