1163
1163

OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PATRICIA M. SAX

Federal Giltwood Overmantel Mirror, New York, Circa 1800
Estimate
No Reserve
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5,000 — 8,000
USD
LOT SOLD. 18,750 USD
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1163

OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PATRICIA M. SAX

Federal Giltwood Overmantel Mirror, New York, Circa 1800
Estimate
No Reserve
Unless indicated by a box, all lots in this catalogue are offered subject to a reserve. A reserve is the confidential minimum auction price established between Sotheby's and the seller and below which a lot will not be sold. The reserve is generally set at a percentage of the low estimate and will not exceed the low estimate of the lot. The symbol is not used if all the lots have a reserve. If any lots in the catalogue are offered without reserve, such lots will be designated by a box.
5,000 — 8,000
USD
LOT SOLD. 18,750 USD
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Details & Cataloguing

Important Americana

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New York

Federal Giltwood Overmantel Mirror, New York, Circa 1800
39 by 45 3/4 in.
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Provenance

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York.

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The World of Duncan Phyfe - The Arts of New York, 1800-1847, 2011-2012.

Catalogue Note

Ultimately inspired by the Neo-Classical designs of Robert and James Adam, presumably as filtered through the London publications of Thomas Sheraton and especially George Hepplewhite, mirrors of this type were made both in England and in the United States.

Since the woods used in the present example, as identified by J. Thomas Quirk, a wood technologist of Quirk Consulting Service in Madison, Wisconsin, are entirely eastern white pine, it can be presumed to have been made in the United States and likely in New York, where most American mirrors of this style seem to have originated.

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Important Americana

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