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| BIEDERMEIER MIRRORS M144 FULL | |
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Rare pair of exemplary concave shaped Austrian Biedermeier gilt wood frames, stiff-leaf decorated. Double molding surrounding the later mirror plate. Original gilding in a rare combination of oil gilding with the more shiny water gilding. Before 1825. Austria. 24 1/2" h, 25 1/2" w, 3 1/4" d Reference: 1) Page 5, J.A. Lux "Von der Empire - zur Biedermeierzeit" (From Empire to Biedermeier), Stuttgart, 1905. 2) Page 36, S. Spindler "Bilderrahmen...1780 - 1850" (Picture frames...1780 - 1850), Munich, 2007. |
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