19th Century Adams Style Mirror

Carved wood, plaster and composition, with wire armature, oval mirror with bead and gadroon trim, urn pediment with foliate plume issuing bell flower and acanthus scroll swag, apron decorated in drapery flanking an acanthus urn.

51 x 25 x 3 in.

From the Estate of the late Mr. Oscar E. Menzer, Memphis, Tennessee. Oscar was a renowned architect and Yale graduate who studied under the greats: Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn; designing 100s of the most beautiful homes of Memphis.

Some scattered chips and losses to the pediment and apron, as well as the beaded trim, some areas with areas of glue and gilt repair; later backing and mirror.

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