101. MIRROR, high quality Stockholm work in Rococo, second half of the 18th century, Samuel Pasch art, woodcut decor and pastellage, made of older gilding with polished gold and struck metal.

The crown with wistful decoration of rocailles, bedstraw flowers, volutes and plant motifs, the frame in the form of a fasces bundle with acanthus leaves, lower sarge with acanthus, shells and volutes, faceted and mercury-foiled glass, 131 x 91 cm

LITERATURE: Torsten Sylvén: The Golden Age of Chairs, chairs & chair makers in Sweden 1650 - 1850, Stockholm 2003, page 180, compares the design of a pair of armchairs from the 1740s probably executed by Samuel Pasch.