Italian Baroque Carved Wood Mirror — 18th Century

A superb Italian Baroque mirror in carved openwork wood, presenting a highly animated Rocaille decoration and great richness of execution. The frame is entirely worked by hand, with a remarkable interplay of volutes, foliage, cartouches and scrolls characteristic of the Baroque style of Northern Italy. The upper section is adorned with a figure sculpted in high relief, set within a Rocaille decoration. The deep piercings testify to virtuoso work, typical of the 18th-century Italian ateliers. The feet are integrated into the frame decoration in a continuous ascending movement, according to a typology proper to the Veneto and Piedmont. Original plate. Wear and losses, spotted silvering linked to age.