Antique Venetian Rococo Style Carved Polychrome Painted Green Gilt Wood Frame Wall Mirror

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Add a touch of luxurious opulence, dramatic beauty, romantic warmth, depth, and timeless old world elegance with this magnificent Venetian … Read more Add a touch of luxurious opulence, dramatic beauty, romantic warmth, depth, and timeless old world elegance with this magnificent Venetian Rococo wall mirror!

Italian, 19th century, likely later mirror plates

Created by highly skilled artisans in the Veneto region (Venice) in North Italy, profusely decorated throughout, featuring hand carved, sculpted, gessoed, marbleized, polychrome painted and gilded wood frame that is truly a masterful work of art!

Handcafted during the nineteenth century Rococo revival era, the epitomie of grandeur and luxury in European style with a touch of romanticism, exceptionally executed in lavish, awe-inspiring and theatrical mid-18th century Rococo period taste, the visually striking highly ornamental sculptural form having sumptuous pierced strapwork crestings that appear to cascade down the sides, surmounted by a tall projecting contoured crown corona above a cartouche-shaped small secondary mirror plate, above a vertical rectangular mirror plate within a conforming molded wood frame finished in traditional Venetian soft pale green ground, embellished with hand painted floral motif, faux marble Trompe-l'œil corners and rich giltwood carvings, boarded by ornate rocaillie ornamentation including acanthus, exuberant scrolling curves, fiolated scrolls, shells, with dramatic pierced openwork, projecting shaped corners and flounced skirting, the frame is truly a masterful work of art!

Dimensions: (approx)
45.5" High, 32.5" Wide, 8" Deep

Condition Report:
Overall very good antique condition with warm mellow patina. Well preserved, pesents well, attractive appearance, with minimal wear commensurate with age and handling. May have very minor rubbing to paint or gilt, abrasions to edges, stable chippy paint losses and subsequent exposed gesso. Evidence of stable past crest restorations. Likely later mirror plates, overall clear with minor scattered age marks and patina.

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