Italian Giltwood Looking Glass, 18th century, in the Baroque taste, the shaped rectangular plate surmounted by a high pierced shell-, floral- and scroll-carved crest, surrounded by a beveled paneled mirrored banding and a molded frame with floral carving and a pierced floral-carved lower frame, h. 69", w. 36". Provenance: Alexander Westerhoff Antiques, Essex, Massachusetts.

Fabulous mirror in overall good condition. Typical minor restorations, surface rubbing and very scattered small losses to carved leaf tips, etc. Gilding with scattered touch-ups and generally refreshed on the lower portion. An old curved crack to a small segment of the double-beveled inner mirror band adjacent to the crest pendant and to one segment at one upper corner. The central plate with very scattered faint oxidation. All of the above consistent with age.