Mirror with candle brackets, Walnut veneer on deal, carved gessoed,and cast brass, mirrored plate glass, Rectangular mirror (a) with original rectangular bevelled glass. Inner gilt molding carved with regularized floriation in low relief; shaped at upper corners. Wider conforming cyma and bead walnut molding outside. Cresting, with gilded ears of voluted leaf carving, is itself scrolled, voluted, and pierced at center to admit a round pierced gilded ornament. Shaped base has ears similar to above and bears a pair of engraved brass sockets which receive two scrolled candle brackets (b,c)
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