A VENETIAN RED, BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED MIRROR decorated overall in the chinoiserie style, with later rectangular plate, the frame decorated with chinoiserie figures seated beside a lake, holding a fan and a parasol, and figures standing beneath the shade of trees, with shrubs and butterflies and rockwork, the angles with foliate cartouches, the arched cresting with moulded cornice centred by a Pagod upon his throne with courtiers, the waved base centred by a seated figure with a pet bird, the sides decorated with flower-trails, circa 1740 63in x 40½in (160 x 103cm.)
A VENETIAN RED, BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED MIRROR decorated overall in the chinoiserie style, with later rectangular plate, the frame decorated with chinoiserie figures seated beside a lake, holding a fan and a parasol, and figures standing beneath the shade of trees, with shrubs and butterflies and rockwork, the angles with foliate cartouches, the arched cresting with moulded cornice centred by a Pagod upon his throne with courtiers, the waved base centred by a seated figure with a pet bird, the sides decorated with flower-trails, circa 1740 63in x 40½in (160 x 103cm.)
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