A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus when this picture was painted

when this picture was painted

When Martin

There is the former owners name inscribed in pencil to the interior in lovely script but it is hard to decipher

the carving shows commensurate weathering with age through direct exposure of the elements

consisting of sections of painted card applied to board and mounted in a good quality English nineteenth century gilt gesso frame

A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus when this picture was paintedOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 63 Depth: 2. 5 Width: 47 The large and wonderfully decorative overmantle mirror, at over five feet high, having the original heavy mercury glass plate surrounded by an acanthus giltwood and gesso frame to a gadrooned border terminating in a naturalistic scrolled shell cresting, the whole surviving from 3rd republic France. The original mirror plate has attractive foxing,