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| BIEDERMEIER MIRRORS M226 | |
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Exemplary Austrian Biedermeier gilt wood frame with "egg and dart" molding and stiff leaf border surrounding the beveled original mirror plate. Frame twice concave shaped retaining it's original gilding. The rare combination of oil gilding with the more shiny water gilding makes this frame very special. Before 1825. 47 1/2" h, 38" w, 3 1/2" 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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