A LAPIS LAZULI HANDLED SILVER MIRROR

A LAPIS LAZULI HANDLED SILVER MIRROR

UNMARKED, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

of shaped oval form, with a classical female warrior within a border of masks and foliate decoration, with tapering rounded rectangular form, mounted with two cherubs

16.8cm long

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild (1848-1918) the Red Room , Halton House, Buckinghamshire.

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Catalogue Note

This interesting hand mirror can be see sitting on Alfred de Rothschild's desk in the Red Room, see photograph on page 124.