A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The Kings Arms in Dorchester’s

The Kings Arms in Dorchester’s High Street East is a traditional coaching inn

when this picture was painted

When Martin

survives as a beautiful decorative element

softly modelled flesh tones

A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The Kings Arms in Dorchester’sOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 63 Depth: 2. 5 Width: 47 The large and wonderfully decorative overmantle mirror, at over five feet high, having the original heavy mercury glass plate surrounded by an acanthus giltwood and gesso frame to a gadrooned border terminating in a naturalistic scrolled shell cresting, the whole surviving from 3rd republic France. The original mirror plate has attractive foxing,