A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Brass and pressed metal handles

Brass and pressed metal handles

The addition of the mask of Christ to the surmount is unusual

Having finalised his design

Length: 7 inches

A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Brass and pressed metal handlesOrigin: 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