A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Macabre- Medicine last purchased in Paris some

last purchased in Paris some twenty years ago

The Great Longstone estate passed through six generations of the family

art at its highest level

though heavier in two or three areas namely to the cheek of the face

the expressive brushstrokes and cool colour palette bear resemblances to various works by John Abbott McNeill Whistler

A Pair of Late 18thC Italian Parcel-Gilt & Painted Wall Mirrors c.1780 sub-Macabre- Medicine last purchased in Paris someOrigin: 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