EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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AN ENGLISH GILT-GESSO PIER MIRROR
EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
The central arched rectangular bevelled plate within compartmental border plates, the pierced lambrequin cresting carved with strapwork, acanthus and centred by a plume of feathers, the apron with later brass fittings and glass branches, the plates replaced, re-gessoed and re-gilt, the apron altered, the cresting possibly replaced
66 x 41 in. (167.5 x 104.5 cm.)

Provenance

The Legend of Dick Turpin, Part I; sold Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 79.

Literature

Michael S. Smith, Houses, New York, 2008, pp. ii, 139-140 & 143.

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Lot Essay

The sconce-fitted pier-glass, framed in a triumphal-arched and truss-scrolled 'tablet' reflects the influence of Borromini's 'Roman' architecture derived from D. de Rossi's, Studio d'Archittura Civile, 1702 . A similar mirror-bordered 'sconce' was commissioned around 1720 to harmonise with the architecture of Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire. Others were supplied in 1720 and 1723 for Erddig, North Wales by the Strand cabinet-maker John Pardoe and John Belchier of St. Paul's Church Yard (G. Beard (ed.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers: 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 661, 672 and 59; and M. Drury, 'Early Eighteenth-Century Furniture at Erddig, Apollo, July 1978, pp. 46-55, fig. 3). A closely related mirror, formerly in the collection of the Harrogate firm of Charles Lumb & Sons, is illustrated in F. L. Hinckley, Queen Anne & Georgian Looking-Glasses, New York, 1987, fig. 72.

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