A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Macabre- Medicine art at its highest level

art at its highest level

The Great Longstone estate passed through six generations of the family

the over-painting to the face is evident

and when he returned the cloth

referring to the characteristic long

A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Macabre- Medicine art at its highest levelOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Late 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1780Height: 28Width: 18Depth: 1. 5 (each & at extremities)The rare and beautifully evocative eighteenth century carved giltwood and jade green painted and lacquered wall mirrors, in the neoclassical taste, the frames with mottled detailing, probably to simulate tortoiseshell, retaining the original gilded decoration with a double volute shell crested frieze and bullseye roundels to each