Lot 532
532
AN IRISH WILLIAM IV GILTWOOD CONVEX GIRANDOLE
AN IRISH WILLIAM IV GILTWOOD CONVEX GIRANDOLE

BY JOHN BENNETT, CORK, CIRCA 1830-40

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AN IRISH WILLIAM IV GILTWOOD CONVEX GIRANDOLE
BY JOHN BENNETT, CORK, CIRCA 1830-40
The circular plate within a ribbed slip and ring-turned acanthus-carved frame, surmounted by a pierced cresting with a deer on a rocky outcrop beneath an oak tree flanked by scrolling berried vines, with sunflower and acanthus apron flanked by twin scrolling branches issuing gilt-metal nozzles, with maker's label to reverse for J. BENNETT, Carver, Gilder, Picture Frame Maker, No 110 George's Street Cork, later fitted for electricity, re-gilt, the cresting and apron probably original
49¼ x 26½ in. (125 x 67.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

John Bennett was listed as 'Carver & Gilder' at 110 George's Street in Pigot & Co.'s Directory for Cork City in 1824; and later at 46 George's Street in 1845. The 1824 census also listed the attorney Joseph Bennett, probably John Bennett's father, at the same address.

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