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A Fine & Substantial Mirror in the Adam Manner
A Fine & Substantial Mirror in the Adam Manner
Dimensions: H: 75.5 in / 192 cm | W: 38 in / 97 cm
PRICE: £25,000
Primarily giltwood, and having an elliptical mirror plate housed within a continuous band of stiff leaf moulding, enclosing a running pearl band, with a striking and large ram’s head motif to the base, which issues seeding campanula, and continuing around the frame to the capitol, a vase with pendant drapes, in turn surmounted with an oversized honeysuckle.
English, Circa 1870
Published in ‘British Furniture 1820 to 1920’ by Christopher Payne, 2023, p. 337, illustrated fig. 6.103
The Adam Brothers often included the use of the ram’s head in their decorative oeuvre, as it signified the triumph of Jason, in his successful quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the apogee of the Egyptian pantheon, the father of the gods, Amon Ra, who was represented as a ram headed sphinx.
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