Constructed in walnut, richly and finely carved, rising from a serpentine base supported by shaped and scrolled feet, with an spread wing eagle, with one talon aloft, holding a shield shaped cartouche, over a grotesque mask, with an architectural background of a brickwork wall, adorned with tendrils and foliates; the shaped and carved platform with upturned scrolls has a complexly and finely carved mirror frame over, comprehensively adorned with foliates, vines, grapes, lovebirds, and an eagle contending with a snake atop, enclosing an elliptical bevelled mirror,
Italian, circa 1870.
