Important overmantel in molded and carved wood, lacquered cream and gilded, the upper part decorated with an oil on canvas depicting a gallant scene in a park, topped by a ribbon bow, the lower part decorated with a mirror. The whole in frames with a row of pearls, the amounts punctuated in the upper part of leafy flowers. Louis XVI style, late 19th, early 20th. 205 x 133 x 6 cm. (small accidents and missing, including a small hole in the canvas).

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