Fine Chippendale Parcel-gilt and Mahogany-veneered Pine Mirror, attributed to Nathan Ruggles (1774-1835), Hartford, Connecticut, 1790-1810. Rectangular silvered looking glass lined with a plane-beveled backboard screwed to mahogany-veneered pine frame with a gilt and crossband-veneered aperture double-rounded at the top corners, the scrolled pediment crest centering a later gilded and carved finial in the form of a phoenix, the volutes featuring giltwood molding and rosettes above bead-molded giltwood oval reserve in the tympanum, finely carved feathered and spurred scrolls applied to top and bottom edges of stiles are linked by carved giltwood pendant foliage, all over a slightly curved bottom rail carved to conform with sharp contours of the scrolled ears, including finial, 60cm wide, 5cm deep, 137cm high (24 1/2in wide, 2 1/2in deep, 54 1/2in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 26 May 2004. Literature A remarkably similar looking glass retaining the label of Nathan Ruggles is illustrated together with an English model in Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York: Viking Press, 1966), cat. no. 212-3. Also see David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), cat. no. 175. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing