A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRRORS

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细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRRORS
Each with a rectangular plate with rounded angles with a pierced cresting confronted by C-scroll and rockwork, the sides with trailing fruit and climbing palm and the apron confronted by rockwork-filled C-scrolls, one with later plate and one with repairs to cresting
55 in. x 35¾ in. (140 cm. x 91 cm.) (2)

来源

Supplied to the 5th Duke of Bolton (d.1765) for Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.

出版

The 1765 Inventory, The Duchess's Dressing Room: 'A pr of fine Pier Glasses in carv'd and gilt frames'. In 1795 the room had been renamed the East Bow Bedchamber and renumbered no. 16. The entry was annotated 'Plates 3.3 x 2' (feet).
In the 1905 inventory they could be those split between the North and South Libraries.

注意事项

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

拍品专文

The mirror plates were no doubt re-used from a pair of early 18th Century pier glasses, reflecting the high valued of the plates themselves in the 18th Century. Their 1760 frames are flowered and serpentined in the French 'picturesque' manner popularised by Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754-1762. Celebrating the triumph of the nature goddess, the fret-ribboned frames unite water-scallops with Roman acanthus and display Venus's shell badge flanked by reeds and bull-maces, sacred to the Arcadian deity Pan. The frames, while harmonising with furnishings introduced into the main rooms under the direction of John Vardy, are also conceived in a lighter manner appropriate to the bedroom apartments.
The mirror that has the original plate has the same coarse paper backing as the mirror that is lot 42 in this sale, suggesting that they came from the same workshop.