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ANTIQUE #SA1115492

French Empire Period Circa 1800-1815 Mirror

Status: This item has been sold
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French Empire Period circa 1800 Mirror
 
• French circa 1800-1815
 
• Scraped original paint
 
• Foxed mercury plate
 
• Original backboards
 
• W: 88cm (34.6'') H: 112cm (44.1'') D: 6cm (2.4'')
 
Early 19th century French mirror with its original paint, foxed mercury back plate and original backboards with a concave frieze top with relief gesso mouldings with a central rosette flanked by anthemia and vine mouldings to the inner mirror frame
 
Anthemion (pl. Anthemia) has its origin from the Greek word Anthos - a little flower. Initially developed by the Greeks from the Egyptian and Asiatic form known as the honeysuckle or lotus palmette it is a floral design consisting of a number of radiating petals and was widely used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to embellish various forms within architecture and general decoration.
 
The Greeks originally only decorated pottery with the motif, but they soon adapted it to ornament architecture. The single-palmette form appears on ...
Antique SA1115492 shown on this page was made in 1800. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
1800
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STATUS
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD