A WILLIAM III IRISH SILVER DRESSING TABLE MIRROR

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A WILLIAM III IRISH SILVER DRESSING TABLE MIRROR
maker's mark of John Humphreys, Dublin, 1686-1698

Upright rectangular, the ogee moulded frame with a gadrooned border applied with stylised leaves at the corners, the shaped and scalloped pediment with matted borders centering a gadrooned cresting flanked by tasselled lambrequins, the ears with leafage, the centre engraved with a coat-of-arms, helm, crest, and motto within foliate scroll mantling and flanked by chased crossed fronds, with wood backing, marked on four sides of frame and on pediment - 28in. (71.1cm.) high

The arms are those of Thompson impaling Wilmot

来源

The Collection of Lord Swaythling, sold in these Rooms, 6 May 1924, lot 47

拍品专文

Originally part of a toilet service evidentally dispersed at the turn of the century; in the 1924 Swaythling sale, the following lot was a casket of the same date and with the same maker's mark, en suite with the present lot. A pair of circular boxes and covers and a smaller box en suite, maker's mark of Thomas Boulton, Dublin, 1701, engraved with the same crest, was also sold from the collection of Lord Swaythling in these Rooms, 21 June 1910, lots 46 and 47. The pair of boxes was subsequently sold by Christie's, New York, 12 April 1988, lot 57.