Details
A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR with later rectangular bevelled plate in a gadrooned surround and foliate-carved frame edged with egg-and-dart, the foliage-carved swan-nek cresting centred by a foliate cartouche above a stepped frieze centred by a callop-shell, the waved apron centre dby a scallop-shell, probably formerly with candlebranches, the reverse with a silver panel now engraved with the names of the donors
67½ x 35in. (171.5 x 89cm.)
67½ x 35in. (171.5 x 89cm.)
Provenance
H. R. H. The Duke of Kent (1902 - 42); a gift when he married H. R. H. Princess Marina of Greece on 29th November 1924, from: Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the Duke of Connaught, Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia and Sir Alexander Ramsay, Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria Eugénie, The Marquess and Marchioness of Carisbrooke, Princess Helena Victoria, Princess Marie Louise, Lady Mand and Lord Carnegie, Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone, the Marquess and Marchioness of Cambridge, The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Helena Gibbs, Lord Frederick Cambridge, Lady May and Major Henry Abel Smith, The Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, The Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven, and Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten.