拍品專文
The elliptical medallion pier-glass, embellished with a sacred urn and addorsed sphynx emerging from arabesque scrolls of Roman acanthus, derives from a pattern for 'the Parlour' at Kenwood House, published in The Works in Architecture of Robert & James Adam, 1774, vol. I, no. II, pl. VIII. The design dates from circa 1771 and appears to have been presented originally for the Hon. Fred Thynne's house in Curzon Street. It was apparently rejected by him and subsequently offered to the Earl of Mansfield (E. Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, 1963, p. 87, fig. 88). Adam's Parlour now forms part of a larger room (still called by the same name) which incorporates Adam's adjoining Drawing Room (J. Summerson, Kenwood, p. 20 and pl. 5).
A similar mirror was sold by order of the Executors of the late Dame Rebecca West, D.B.E., in these Rooms, 17 November 1983, lot 119.
A similar mirror was sold by order of the Executors of the late Dame Rebecca West, D.B.E., in these Rooms, 17 November 1983, lot 119.