Fine Antique French Gilded Mahogany Ormolu Napoleonic Empire Cheval Mirror 1815 Paintings the base drawer with a

the base drawer with a carved cartouche to the center and the underside having a compressed ball finial at each corner

painted about 1623

From 1905 to the 1930s

The base also has two impressed decorator's marks

Fine Antique French Gilded Mahogany Ormolu Napoleonic Empire Cheval Mirror 1815 Paintings the base drawer with aSOLD A very fine antique French 1st Empire Napoleonic period mahogany and ormolu monted cheval mirror, circa 1815. The mirror with a stepped top and removeable wooden gilded gesso cornice, above a rectangular mahogany panel mounted with a gilt bronze roundel with gilt bronze fern leaves. To each side is a pair Doric columns with gilded bases and capitals, centering a swivel beveled glass mirror that is elegantly framed within a mahogany frame with