A Fine Regency Period Gilt Gesso & Ebonised Egyptian Revival Overmantle Mirror c.1810 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles “Sweep and the Whitewasher”

“Sweep and the Whitewasher”

Date: 1964

Most of the mechanisms work but because of the complexity of them some are sticking and they could do with some attention

There is some small amount of old wood worm to the interior which we have treated as a precaution

now a super little display piece

A Fine Regency Period Gilt Gesso & Ebonised Egyptian Revival Overmantle Mirror c.1810 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles “Sweep and the Whitewasher”Origin: English Period: Regency Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1805 15 Height: 23. 25 inches Width: 53 inches Depth: 6. 5 inches (at maximum) The Regency period gilt gesso and ebonised overmantel mirror with the heavy silvered glass divided into three fielded plates by ebonised reeded slip under a shaped pediment adorned with corvetto balls, the flanks with fluted pilasters under Egyptian Sphinx busts and feet. The condition of the mirror is evocative