Description
the lower tier of three bevelled mirror plates below an open shelf with four ebonised sunflower roundels and circular convex mirror, with carved and reeded and blocked frame within further stepped open shelves and with lattice-work surround
Dimensions
127cm wide, 119cm high, 18cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Soros, Susan 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', Yale 1999, pp. 248-9, nos. 414; 418 and 420 illus.
William Watt's 'Art Furniture', 1877, pl.14
Note: Godwin designed a number of overmantels or chimney shelves for William Watt of which this is a variant. William Watt's 'Art Furniture' shows a similar mirror with this configuration of reeded and blocked ebonised convex mirror surrounded by carved sunflower bosses.