An Early 19thC Italian Gilt-Gesso Wall Mirror c.1830 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews with the original foxed plate

with the original foxed plate glass survives from the early nineteenth century

with one spliced repair to one back leg

And purposes of life

as Alvin Mfg Co in Irvington

An Early 19thC Italian Gilt-Gesso Wall Mirror c.1830 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews with the original foxed plateOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Early 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1830Height: 24Depth: 2Width: 31The dome topped wall mirror, of overmantel type form, having the original sparkling mercury glass plate, featuring a ghostly central decayed orb to the centre, surrounded by a well carved gilt gesso moulded frame of floral spandrels to an incised lozenge ground and gadrooned inner border, the whole surviving from nineteenth century Italy. The original mirror