Wide antique gilt overmantel with cartouche

Code: 5119

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Unusually wide, 19th century French gilt overmantel mirror, circa 1840s, with double curved top and central acanthus leaf and flower cartouche. The gilt frame has burnished and matt sections with an outcurving central panel etched with a criss-cross design and a narrow plain gilt frame along the bottom edge decorated each side with an elongated acanthus leaf. The original mercury glass has a little light age mostly along the base, and sparkles.