L'Antiquaire eZ The Connoisseur Inc.
36 Last 73' Street
New 'York Y10021-4131
Tel (212)517-9176 Tay (212)988-5674
www.fantiquaire.us
info fantiquaire.us
EFTA00306400
MI 18-9906
An Unusual, Bold and Dramatic Roman Mirror
Southern Italy, late seventeenth century
Size: 74 13/16" x 37 3/8" (190 x 95 cm.)
Price: $38,000.00
With deeply carved swirling volute and foliate elements with C scrolls and shell
motifs of oxidized silver and gold leaf. The outer frame shaped; the inner frame of
rectangular form. Half hidden in the carving of the frame to either side is a grotesque
human half-face, which — when seen from 45 degrees is completed by its own reflection.
That on the right side recalls the small grotesque bronze busts that the great sculptor
Bemini made on the roof of his own carriage.
EFTA00306401