A Beautiful Early 19thC Italian Neoclassical Painted Wood & Gesso Trumeau Mirror c.1820-30 antiques the base impressed marked ‘1/6

the base impressed marked ‘1/6 85’ for June 1885 surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century

This chair derives from the ‘Morris Chair’ by Phillip Webb who was a designer for Morris & Co

There is some expected light discoloration and minor creasing to the corners

Violet Clinton was a member of Wolverhampton Municipal School of Art & Crafts and Wolverhampton Archives has a volume

Remember by Christina Rossetti

A Beautiful Early 19thC Italian Neoclassical Painted Wood & Gesso Trumeau Mirror c.1820-30 antiques the base impressed marked ‘1/6Origin: Italian Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1820 30 Height: 61. 75 Width: 25. 5 Depth: 2. 5 (at extremities) The very pretty early nineteenth century painted pine wood and gesso trumeeau mirror, standing at over five feet, having a divided rectangular plate within a rosette, honeysuckle and palmette surround with acanthus angles all picked out in bone against a shadow blue green grey ground, surmounted by an applied frieze panel