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ANTIQUE #SA678485

Triptych Set Of French Painted Mirrors With Original Glass

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Sold by: Tom Scott Antiques

Unusual triptych set of three mirrors, comprising a pair of pier mirrors and a larger central mirror in the French Directoire style.
 
The mirrors are painted in an old off white base colour and a typical French green highlight. I would say the base colour is the original, but the highlighting has been done at a later date.
 
You may choose to keep them as they are, or have them entirely re painted in a colour to suit your scheme.
 
Very decorative set if you hang them together as shown here, but the narrower pair of mirrors could work well as pier mirrors and the larger central mirror could hang as an overmantle mirror perhaps. Although I think they look great as a set of three mirrors hanging together.
 
The dimensions shown below are for the individual mirrors, but also the full width of the three if you spaced them roughly as I have.
 
There are signs of age to the old paint finish and also, the mirrors do have some foxing too. Nice to keep the original mirrors, but if you wo...
Antique SA678485 shown on this page was made in 1880. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
1880
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Tom Scott Antiques
Specialist dealer in French & English decorative furniture and interiors
Rutland
United Kingdom
Tel: 07718 758 540
STATUS
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD