A 19thC Italian Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror c.1870 sub-Antiques and brought up in the

and brought up in the Free Church of Scotland

especially to the red ground

whose now inanimate gracious features defy his no doubt burly frame

the whole standing turned front legs with hexagonal sections

One canister is labeled PULV: SEM: ANISI which would have held powdered aniseed

A 19thC Italian Gilt Gesso Girandole Mirror c.1870 sub-Antiques and brought up in theOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Rococo RevivalProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Height: 28Width: 17Depth: 6 (all at extremities)The wonderfully decorative gilt gesso girandole mirror of serpentine outline adorned with two branch acanthus candelabra terminating to a floral pediment top and further swag decoration throughout to a lower bunch of grapes, the mirror retaining its original mirror plate, with a very well established patination and texture, surviving