A pair of Russian neoclassical style giltwood mirrors

each oval plate contained within a molded giltwood frame surmounted by a crown, the lower part fitted with a single curved brass candle branch.

A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture The Golden Age 1780-1840, New York, 1988, p. 178, ill. 179.  

One of the crosses to the crowns is missing, as visible from the catalogue illustration. With age and construction cracks to the gilding of the mirrors on the top and sides, as visible from the catalogue illustration. With minor losses to the outside moulding, as visisble from the catalogue illustration. In otherwise good condition.
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The white lacquer and gilded original version in the Millwood Museum in Washington, D.C. perfectly illustrates the transition fro one period to the next: the sculpted wood drapery hanging from a scrolled border is still eighteenth century in feel, whereas the feet and upright in the form of eagles are nineteenth century.