An Italian Baroque Heavily Carved Giltwood Mirror, possibly Venetian, with pierce-carved shells and arabesques, square pegging with old nails
Dimensions: 41x33 overall, oval mirror plate 24x20
Property Title: From the Estate of Barbara Farnsworth of West Cornwall, CT. She was the life partner of the late Harry L. Colley II. Barbara was born on June 18th 1934 in New York City, the daughter of the late William and Margaret (Leczer) Blaha. Barbara graduated from Middlebury College in 1955 and worked as an oil and gas researcher at McGraw Hill. She married Clyde H. Farnsworth on September 3, 1956. They moved to Europe in 1963 where Clyde was a New York Times foreign correspondent in London, Brussels and Paris, and Barbara worked as a correspondent for the Economist magazine. In 1978, Barbara returned to the United States and acquired Martin Gold's book shop in West Cornwall. Over the next 40 years, as a member of ABAA, she grew the business into one of the most respected antiquarian bookstores in America.
(BFAR3031) (TC)

original gilding with older overpainting; mirror plate assumed replaced, but backer board with old worming appears old if not original, losses and crazing to the surfaces and gesso, small losses to the carving, some square pegs popped through gilding due to age, surprisingly intact from the rear.