POSSIBLY 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED MIRROR
Possibly 18th Century
Of early Georgian design, the scrolling cresting decorated with a Chinese Emperor flanked by attendants, above a later shaped rectangular divided mirror plate and a scrolling apron, similarly decorated with Chinoiserie motifs, restorations
71 in. (181 cm.) high; 30½ in. (78 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The pier-glass has a serpentined and volute-scrolled pediment depicting a monumental seated figure, that evokes the image of 'Pagod Worship in the Indies' in Stalker and Parker's, Treatise on Japanning, 1688. A similar composition features on a sconce-fitted pier-glass supplied in the 1730's to the Duke of Infantado at Lazcano, Spain, by the Clerkenwell cabinet-maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780) (sold Property of the Rosen Foundation, Christie's New York, 14 April 1984, lot 153; see C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, fig 445). A shell-dressed demi-mask painted on the pier-glass's apron also relates to that featured on a crest-rail of the Duke's seat-furniture (see C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House, 1978, pp. 79-81; and Gilbert ibid. 1996, figs 443 and 449).

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