Live Auction 5799Fine English Furniture including the Collis Collection
Lot 240THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lots 240-245)

A REGENCY GILTWOOD, GILT COMPOSITION AND VERRE EGLOMISE OVERMANTEL MIRROR

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GBP 4,600

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A REGENCY GILTWOOD, GILT COMPOSITION AND VERRE EGLOMISE OVERMANTEL MIRROR
The rectangular triple plate divided by foliage-trailed cluster-columns and with foliate capitals surmounted by a central oval black and gold- painted panel depicting cherubs in a landscape, flanked by conforming panels with musical still lifes, all on a silver black and light-blue trellis ground, below a frieze decorated with roundels and a moulded cornice with an ebonised base, the ebonised base possibly later
39 in. x 43 in. (99 cm. x 109.5 cm.)

Specialist note

The mirror's reeded columnettes with palm-wrapped Ionic columns relates to frames, including some with verre églomisé panels, manufactured in the early 19th Century by Thomas Fentham of the Strand (fl. 1794-1820) (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 200-203, figs. 336-343).