Description
Exceptional and rare pair of violin-shaped mirrors in carved, gilded and green lacquered wood, decorated with oves and a shell in the upper part. It presents a rich ornamentation in white, blue and green glass with scrolls and acanthus leaves surmounted by a mask of a woman in relief. The eglomised glass figures Apollo and Diana the Huntress on a console with mantling surmounted by a ribboned canopy in a frame of vine shoots and bunches of grapes. Venice, early 18th century. Height: 115 cm Width: 52 cm. Small accidents, restorations and pitting, later parts.
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Exceptional and rare pair of violin-shaped mirrors in carved, gilded and green lacquered wood, decorated with oves and a shell in the upper part. It presents a rich ornamentation in white, blue and green glass with scrolls and acanthus leaves surmounted by a mask of a woman in relief. The eglomised glass figures Apollo and Diana the Huntress on a console with mantling surmounted by a ribboned canopy in a frame of vine shoots and bunches of grapes. Venice, early 18th century. Height: 115 cm Width: 52 cm. Small accidents, restorations and pitting, later parts.
