A Large Early Victorian Giltwood Wall Mirror c.1840-60 sub-Curios after the painting by Van

after the painting by Van Dyck of a Gentleman putting his gloves on

A wonderful curio and a brilliant talking point around the dinner table

The hand has some expected chipping to the finger ends so as the gilt paint and some of the gesso is lacking in small areas

and surviving from the first quarter of nineteenth century France

only good quality tapestry was a more expensive way to furnish walls

A Large Early Victorian Giltwood Wall Mirror c.1840-60 sub-Curios after the painting by VanOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840 60Height: 42Width: 42Depth: 5The large and beautifully evocative square framed wall mirror with circular sight, displaying a nineteenth century rectangular mirror plate, with some attractive flecks of spotting, being housed in a distressed and elaborate frame at five inches thick, formerly for an oil painting, the whole with lozenge line decoration to large acanthus leaf corners,