- Venetian Mirror, Venice, second quarter of the 18th century
Mirror featuring a rectangular moulded frame, carved with recessed panels in low relief depicting scrolls and floral motifs, with backgrounds worked using a burin.
Two architectural brackets extend from the sides of the frame, from which carved scrolls with floral elements descend. These support a monumental crest composed of large opposing C-scrolls, a central fan-shaped motif and a prominent shell at the top, all enriched with leaves and flowers.
An elegant carved apron completes the composition. The entire carved surface, made of Swiss stone pine wood, is water-gilded.
Dimensions: 186 x 120 x 26 cm
Code: ANCOSP0313825
Venice is renowned as the city of mirrors, both for its production of mercury-silvered glass plates and for the exceptional craftsmanship of its master woodcarvers.
This example features a typical Venetian Baroque frame, characterised by recessed, shaped panels decorated with delicate Baroque carvings and backgrounds embellished with a stippled texture created using a burin.
Surrounding this frame, a type found in numerous examples, including some particularly celebrated ones, is an elaborate arrangement of Baroque carvings featuring scrolls, shells and flowers, executed with the lightness and elegance characteristic of Venetian craftsmanship.
G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del ‘700, Gorlich, 1958.
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