Christian Davies Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1800s.
Flanked by similar turned and gilded columns again with ebonised ring turned detail and lions masks carved detail. Retaining the original makers label "John Steell" of 14 Leith Street, Edinburgh circa 1820-1830
Dimensions: 62" wide x 30" high x 3" deep
John Steel was born in Aberdeen, he trained as a wood carver in Edinburgh with his father, a carver and gilder, and at the Trustees Academy, before studying and working as a sculptor in Rome.After returning, he became the most important sculptor of his generation in Scotland and operated the first sculpture foundry in the country.Much of his prodigious output of public monuments and portrait busts are in Edinburgh. These include the statues of Sir Walter Scott, Scott Monument (1846); Allan Ramsay (1850); Alexander Taming Bucephalus (1832, erected 1883); and the equestrian monuments to the Duke of Wellington (1848-52), and the Prince Consort (1876).
Condition: This mirror is in excellent original condition. Minor wear to the gilding commensurate with age and use and a minor speckling to the mirror plate
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Christian Davies Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1800s.
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A Gilt Wood Regency Period Over Mantle Mirror
