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拍品专文
The pier-glass, designed with flowered, voluted and triumphal-arched temple pediment in the George I Roman fashion, displays an armorial shell-decked cartouche borne on a bacchic satyr-masked bracket that is wreathed by Apollo's poetic laurels. While its Roman Composite-order pilasters issue from voluted 'sconce' brackets, and these are borne by Jupiter's eagles that issue from Roman acanthus and bear the deity's sacred oak garlands that festoon the sunflowered base cartouche.
Its Roman architecture reflects the fashion introduced by Inigo Jones (d.1652) and revived as a National style in the 1720's by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé, the Rome-trained artist William Kent (d.1748) (see W. Jones, The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739)
The frame, now lacking armorials and brass nozzles, appears to be one of a pair commissioned by Sir George Bowes following his inheritance in 1721 of Streatlam Castle, Co. Durham. The latter, together with the 'Bowes' cabinet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964 (p. 363 fig. 38 and p. 95 fig. 13).
Its Roman architecture reflects the fashion introduced by Inigo Jones (d.1652) and revived as a National style in the 1720's by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé, the Rome-trained artist William Kent (d.1748) (see W. Jones, The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739)
The frame, now lacking armorials and brass nozzles, appears to be one of a pair commissioned by Sir George Bowes following his inheritance in 1721 of Streatlam Castle, Co. Durham. The latter, together with the 'Bowes' cabinet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964 (p. 363 fig. 38 and p. 95 fig. 13).