A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Blue Verditer

Blue Verditer

stably and doesn’t need any kind of support

The addition of the mask of Christ to the surmount is unusual

Pulpit and Font at St Albans Anglican Church 1887 and many other church buildings

this article invited the 'Nobility and Gentry' to purchase these pictures which were 'not only ornamental in Lady's chambers but useful to paint and draw after or imitate in shell or needle work'

A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Blue VerditerOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Late 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1780Height: 28Width: 18Depth: 1. 5 (each & at extremities)The rare and beautifully evocative eighteenth century carved giltwood and jade green painted and lacquered wall mirrors, in the neoclassical taste, the frames with mottled detailing, probably to simulate tortoiseshell, retaining the original gilded decoration with a double volute shell crested frieze and bullseye roundels to each