A Louis XVI Provincial Green-Painted and Parcel Gilt Mirror

Late 18th Century

Height 45 1/2 x width 23 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Appears to retain early mirror plate, possibly original. In overall fairly good and stable conditoin. The mirror plate intact with few very light surface marks and one small area of chips from abrasion. Having one faint patch of wear to the silver backing near the center along the right edge and some minor faint patterns elsewhere, as typical of age. Exhibiting rubbing to gilt decoration exposing red bole beneath. The crest having scattered instances of loss to gesso, but design is otherwise intact and stable. No additional provenance is known for this lot.

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Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection, Part I

A Louis XVI Provincial Green-Painted and Parcel Gilt Mirror

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