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Artworks
A QUEEN ANNE VERRE ÉGLOMISÉ BORDER GLASS MIRROR, English, circa 1705
An extremely rare early 18th century verre églomisé border glass mirror retaining the original shaped bevelled centre plate within conforming original verre églomisé borders finely decorated in gold strapwork on...An extremely rare early 18th century verre églomisé border glass mirror retaining the original shaped bevelled centre plate within conforming original verre églomisé borders finely decorated in gold strapwork on a ruby ground and framed by a moulded gadrooned giltwood border.Literature
Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, ‘The Dictionary of English Furniture’, revised edition, 1954, vol. II, p. 322, figs 27-8.
Geoffrey Wills, ‘English Looking Glasses, A Study of the Glass, Frames and Makers 1670-1820’, 1965, pp. 68-9, illus. 11-12.
Herbert F. Schiffer, ‘The Mirror Book: English, American & European’, 1983, p. 47, illus. 73-4.
