拍品 135
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A REGENCY GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION TWO-LIGHT GIRANDOLE, the circular convex mirror plate in an ebonised slip and cavetto circular frame below a cresting of scrolling acanthus headed by an eagle hung with chains, the base with ribbon-tied foliage supporting twin scrolling branches with glass drip-pans hung with drops and turned nozzles, regilt, the reverse inscribed in pencil 3/10/56 and with paper label of C.THOMAS & SON, CARVERS AND GILDERS, 2, NEW BRIDGE STREET, TRURO. ... OLD FRAMES RE-GILDED

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A REGENCY GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION TWO-LIGHT GIRANDOLE, the circular convex mirror plate in an ebonised slip and cavetto circular frame below a cresting of scrolling acanthus headed by an eagle hung with chains, the base with ribbon-tied foliage supporting twin scrolling branches with glass drip-pans hung with drops and turned nozzles, regilt, the reverse inscribed in pencil 3/10/56 and with paper label of C.THOMAS & SON, CARVERS AND GILDERS, 2, NEW BRIDGE STREET, TRURO. ... OLD FRAMES RE-GILDED
33 x 18in. (84 x 46cm.)

拍品专文

it is likely that C.Thomas was a descendant of John Thomas who was a Truro cabinet-maker from 1805 until circa 1822. He advertised a 'Fashionable Upholstery and Cabinet Warehouse' at 8 Lemon Street (see: C.Gilbert and G.Beard eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture-Makers, Leeds, 1986, p.882.)