A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE III CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CHANDELIER MIRRORS
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A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE III CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CHANDELIER MIRRORS

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A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE III CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CHANDELIER MIRRORS
Each with oval plate surrounded by faceted squares, with shaped brass hook suspending a baluster shaft surmounted by a corona hung with droplets, terminating in a cup stem issuing three shaped branches, the central branch hung with a pear-shaped drop, flanked by shaped branches with star-cut van Dyck drip-pans hung with droplets and turned nozzles, the three branches hung with swagged drops, the base of the shaft with star-cut corona hung with droplets, two drip-pans replaced, replacements to droplets, one backboard inscribed '18647', restorations and replacements
24¼ x 16¼ in. (61.5 x 41 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Bought from Hotspur, London, 15 May 1970 for £7,500.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

An almost identical Irish mirror-chandelier, now in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford is illustrated in M. Mortimer, 'Irish Mirror Chandeliers', Country Life, 16 December 1971, fig. 4, p. 1741 and M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, p. 164, figs. 101-102. The latter mirror-chandelier bears the inscription of the Grafton Street, Dublin glass-cutter and retailer 'John D. Aykbowm' who, in 1800, advertised his 'New Venice' glass and crystal manufacture on the Blackrock Road, Dublin.

A pair belonging to the Warrender family, probably from Sheen Falls, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, was sold by the Lord Bruntisfield, in these Rooms, 3 February 1972, lot 17. Another pair, sold by Dr. Norman Gay, in these Rooms, 28 June 1984, lot 16 (£38,000), was discussed in M. Mortimer's 1971 Country Life article. A single girandole of conforming design to the present pair and signed 'John D. Aykboum' on the back, was sold by Marion Johnson Wise, Sotheby's New York, 19 October 1991, lot 350 ($38,500). A further single girandole, but with circular corona suspended by three bell-mounted strands, was sold by Mrs. Natalie Barclay, Boxted House, Essex, 'Works of Art from Country Houses', Christie's South Kensington, 3 October 2001, lot 344 (£38,500).

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