A Large Mid-19thC Italian Giltwood & Gesso Rectangular Wall Mirror c.1840-50 sub-Macabre- Medicine There is a Roman bust

There is a Roman bust in the British Museum that was widely reproduced across europe and this bust was probably commissioned by a gentleman of his wife or lover in the style of Clytie

The flag is a little grubby but we rather like this

There is some light evidence of old worm to the rear legs

and fitted in perfectly with the neoclassical style that was the dominant fashion for interior design in the 1770s

The only condition defects to note are the absence of interior strapping and part absence of the exterior tan leather strapping

A Large Mid-19thC Italian Giltwood & Gesso Rectangular Wall Mirror c.1840-50 sub-Macabre- Medicine There is a Roman bustOrigin: ItalianPeriod: NeoclassicalProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840 50Height: 59Width: 41. 5 (in portrait)The beautifully evocative rectangular wall mirror in the neoclassical manner, at five feet, enclosing a mercury mirror plate with extensive foxing, being housed in a cream painted and gilded gesso moulded frame with symmetrical spandrel mouldings within a moulded outer and acanthus leaf inner border, the whole surviving from the second quarter of