A Large Early-Victorian Mahogany & Mercury Plate Overmantle Mirror c.1840-60 sub-Architectural & Garden The top has some old

The top has some old flecks of white paint

There is the expected flaking and craquelure to the paint

and in doing so in encapsulates the nostalgia of the flying circus and of the fairground itself

according to an article in the Boston Christian Examiner in 1834

or perhaps he once bore a crown (leading to the assumption he may be Scandanavian) though we would have expected the crown to be carved in one piece as is the rest of the piece

A Large Early-Victorian Mahogany & Mercury Plate Overmantle Mirror c.1840-60 sub-Architectural & Garden The top has some oldOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 Height: 48 Depth: 2. 75 Width: 61 The good quality large arched overmantle mirror at approximately five feet wide by four feet high, having the original heavy mercury glass plate surrounded by a mahogany veneered ripple moulded frame of super colour, the lower edge with extended shaped mouldings, surviving from the early to mid Victorian period in completely unmolested