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Large putti mirror Moulded, carved, stuccoed and gilded wood…
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328
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Large putti mirror Moulded, carved, stuccoed and gilded wood…
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Large putti mirror
Moulded, carved, stuccoed and gilded wood.
The upper part features the bust of a child surrounded by horns of plenty ending in bunches of fruit. The sides are decorated with two draped children against a foliage background. A mascaron in the lower part. A mirror in the centre underlined by friezes of leaves.
Italian work from the 18th century.
Later glass.
Height 164 cm Width 130 cm.
Accidents, missing parts, restorations and reinforcements.
Provenance: private collection, Berry.
Large 18th-century Italian mirror with giltwood carving of infants with the horn of plenty.
Bibliography :
- Silvano Colombo, "L'arte del legno e del mobile in Italia: mobili, rivestimenti decorazioni, tarsie dal medioevo al XIX secolo", Bramante, Busto Arsizio, c. 1981, n°439 for a standing mirror with putti and lion decoration from the 18th century Genoa school kept at Palazzo Rosso ;
- Goffredo Lizzani, "Il mibile romano", Milano, Görlich, 1970, p. 142, no. 236 for an undated frame;
- Enrico Colle, "Il mobile Barocco in Italia: arredi e decoraioni d'interni del 1600 al 1738", Milano Electa, 2000, p. 39, for a console with putti-shaped front legs.
See original version (French)
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