An Early 19thC Italian Gilt-Gesso Wall Mirror c.1830 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews with one spliced repair to

with one spliced repair to one back leg

This builder worked in the 19th century and created his figures of both paper mache and wood

There are lime deposits and root marks amongst the encrustations present on the jar

wearing a pearl necklace

An Early 19thC Italian Gilt-Gesso Wall Mirror c.1830 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews with one spliced repair toOrigin: 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