A REGENCY GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR by Robert Cribb and Son. with rectangular plate flanked by twin-fluted columns with leafy capitals and divided by stars, below an inverted breakfront rectangular egg-and-dart cornice above a key-pattern frieze flanked by lion-mask and ring-handles, on plinth base, with trade label of R.CRIBB AND SON,/Glass and Picture FrameMakers,/and Printsellers,/No.288, NEAR GREAT TURNSTILE,/HOLBORN and separately inscribed in ink June 21 .. 1805, redecorated and re-gilt, traces of old gilding

Details

A REGENCY GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR by Robert Cribb and Son. with rectangular plate flanked by twin-fluted columns with leafy capitals and divided by stars, below an inverted breakfront rectangular egg-and-dart cornice above a key-pattern frieze flanked by lion-mask and ring-handles, on plinth base, with trade label of R.CRIBB AND SON,/Glass and Picture FrameMakers,/and Printsellers,/No.288, NEAR GREAT TURNSTILE,/HOLBORN and separately inscribed in ink June 21 .. 1805, redecorated and re-gilt, traces of old gilding
64½ x 38½in. (163.5 x 97.5cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 2 June 1967, lot 118

Lot Essay

This label would suggest that Robert Cribb (fl. 1790-1834) was joined by his son in 1805 rather than 1806 (see: G. Beard and C. Gilbert eds. Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, F.H.S. Leeds, 1986, p. 209). Robert Cribb and Son styled themselves 'Carvers and Gilders to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales,' receiving payments in July 1810 for work carried out (Windsor Royal Archives, RA 89007)

More from English Furniture

View All