* IMPORTANT MIRROR WITH GLAZING, WITH DOUBLE... Lot 16

* IMPORTANT MIRROR WITH GLAZING, WITH DOUBLE FRAME Parisian work, Regency period, around 1720. Richly carved and gilded wood H. 245 cm L. 152 cm Good general condition with small scattered chips of gilding. Original parquet floor. Mercury mirror of the period in good condition. This large model with a curved top, presents two loves sitting at the top of a palmette palmette and flanked by a winged dragon. The exterior molding is chiseled with small pikes and a rocaille on a framing redent. At the bottom corners of the arch, an espagnolette with a bust of foliage next to a broken palmette, from which a garland of a garland of flowers. In the lower part, the feet are topped by acanthus scrolls, in the center acanthus, in the center a cartouche of foliage with two doves in beak, and on the the sides a scroll of foliage and flowers. References: - The two loves of the cushion are featured in the book "Mirrors 1650-1900" by Graham Child, fig. 327. Provenance: - Mathias sale of December 2, 1987, lot no. 105. - Sale of June 26, 2001 at Piasa, lot n°60, N.V.