A VICTORIAN SILVER STANDING DRESSING TABLE MIRROR

MARK OF JOHN S. HUNT FOR HUNT & ROSKELL, LONDON, 1850, WITH RUSSIAN IMPORT MARKS "88" STANDARD FOR ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880 AND LATER FRENCH CONTROL MARK

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A VICTORIAN SILVER STANDING DRESSING TABLE MIRROR
MARK OF JOHN S. HUNT FOR HUNT & ROSKELL, LONDON, 1850, WITH RUSSIAN IMPORT MARKS "88" STANDARD FOR ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880 AND LATER FRENCH CONTROL MARK
The asymetrical mirror with scroll and foliate border, on foliate pedestal foot centred by a coat of arms surmounted by a coronet, wood back to mirror
16¾ in. long (42.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The arms are for Beloselskoy (Bieloselski).
A large dressing table mirror by Hunt & Roskell, London, 1849, for the same family, was sold at Sotheby New York on 22/4/2010, lot 44.
Elena Bibikov, wife of Prince Esper Beloselskoy-Belozersky, (1802-46), took over the extensive family fortune on the premature death of her husband and was a noted society hostess at the family palace on Nevsky Prospect.

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