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Description: | Part of a pair of wall mirrors, supplied by Monbro, Paris.
These mirrors are made from carved and gilded limewood in the form of large, flamboyant scrolls of acanthus leaves. A bill from Monbro dated April 1856, for the Bowes' Paris house at 7 rue de Berlin, lists the following purchase for the Little Red Salon: '2 large bevelled mirrors, Italian frame, carved and gilded wood', for which they paid 1860 francs'.
Size: Height: 192 cm. Width: 135 cm. | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 710 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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