Vintage Brighton Mirror Tray with Silver Handles Antique

Vintage Brighton Mirror Tray with Silver Handles AntiqueVintage Brighton Mirror Tray with Silver Handles

British Essayists Book

eveque de Meaux Volumes 37

Belin-Mandar et Devaux (both prominent Parisian houses of the early 19th C)

Bold scallop shell form with scrolling acanthus tip

These two plates together form a cohesive diptych-like image that would have originally depicted the biblical moment when Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive the Son of God

featuring:

The Abbe Constatin was first published in 1882 and became a major success

having elaborately carved fanned crest with ribbons and floral motifs

Giltwood Plinth or Pedestal base

Losses to paint

both rising on black-painted wood base with turned feet

which means it provided contemporary insights into the conflict and its aftermath