Primary Description:
Two Mirrors Engraved with Figures from the Commedia dell’Arte. Mercury-tin amalga mirror glass, engraved, framed in carved and gilded wood, assembled. A pair of Venetian Rococo engraved mirrors in carved giltwood frames, each with its original mirrored glass. Each central glass is engraved with a floral border surmounted by a ribbon-tied lambrequin canopy, one plate centered below by a female figure, almost certainly Columbina, holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand and standing on a foliate and beaded dais. The other mirror is centered by the figure of a man, almost certainly Pierrot, holding flowers in his left hand and standing on a dais. Each mirror is set within an elaborately carved Rococo frame, with inner shaped mirrored slips, surmounted by a scalloped cartouche and flanked below by a pair of semi-nude female figures. The frames are ornamented overall with floral and foliate carving. At the base of each is a distinctive mask head boss, possibly once intended to receive the metal arm of a candle holder.