Lot 56
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A PAIR OF GILT-GESSO PIER GLASSES
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A PAIR OF GILT-GESSO PIER GLASSES

OF GEORGE I STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GILT-GESSO PIER GLASSES
OF GEORGE I STYLE, 19TH CENTURY
Each with later bevelled plate below a lambrequin cresting with dolphins and lambrequin apron, each with 19th Century printed label inscribed 'SMART'S PICTURE GALLERY '10 TITCHBORN STREET, REGENT STREET, PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKING GLASS MANUFACTURERS, CARVING AND GILDING IN ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES, OLD GLASSES REPOLISHED AND RESILVERED, WORK ATTENDED TO IN THE COUNTRY'
54½ x 30¼ in. (138.5 x 77 cm.) (2)
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Lot Essay

The pier-glasses, with fretted aprons for glass-sconce fittings, have foliated scallop-shell crestings guarded by Venus dolphins and Jupiter eagle-heads in the 1720s antique, or Roman, manner. They bear the 1820s label of the Piccadilly Picture Dealer, William Smart, who was succeeded in the 1830s by E. & H. Smart, trading as carvers, gilders and picture dealers (G. Beard, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers: 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 823).

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