Palatial Neoclassical Style Giltwood Over Mantel Mirror

Likely French, second half of the 19th century, carved wood with applied gold leaf over gesso, architectural arched frame with shell motifs over columnar stiles, flanking a heraldic armorial pediment featuring two fleur-de-lis and a spread-winged fowl facing dexter, later mirror stamped "Pittsburg Glass Co./High Point, NC/NOV [?], 1941" to verso; two screw eyes drilled onto back for hanging.

79 x 72 x 10 in.

From the Wood Family’s Historic Mulberry Hill Home, Edenton, North Carolina

Areas of gilt loss, cracking and flaking to wood, with associated later gilt touch up; some areas of loss to the pediment, some broken and repaired; areas of silver degradation and loss.