A PAIR OF GEORGE I GILT-GESSO GIRANDOLE MIRRORS

CIRCA 1720

細節

A PAIR OF GEORGE I GILT-GESSO GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
Circa 1720
Each later rectangular bevelled plate within a foliate-incised surround against a pounced ground, surmounted by a similarly-carved swan's neck cresting terminating in rosettes with central five-feathered plume centering a female mask, the shell-carved pendant base with a pair of later brass candlearms, the reverse of each with white-painted inventory numbers L/MHS/F/86A and L/MHS/F/868B respectively
44in. (112cm.) high, 25in. (63.5cm.) wide (2)

來源

With Norman Adams Ltd., London in 1950.
The Property of a Lady, sold Sotheby's London, 8 March 1985, lot 64 (30,800).

出版

C.Claxton Stevens and S.Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1983, p.413.
G.Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, 1990, p.79, fig.57 and p.101, col.pl.57.

展覽

On loan to the National Trust at Mompesson House, Salisbury, Wiltshire (on display from the mid-1970's to 1984).

拍品專文

The 'Indian' nymph mask adorned with a stately plumed headdress and accompanied by scallop-shell badge of Venus on a frame carved with Roman acanthus in the Louis XIV manner was inspired by the designs of Daniel Marot (d.1752), architect to King William III, who published his Oeuvres in 1712. The nymph mask also appears on a mirror supplied for Hampton Court Palace in 1715 which bears the name of Royal cabinet-maker John Gumley (d.c.1727) (see C.Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.252). A related mirror invoiced by John Belchier in 1723 for Erddig in Wales features a similarly plumed mask (see R.Edwards and M.Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, London, 1955, p.137, fig.35).

A closely related sconce pattern, also with Venus-shell badge and acanthus-trussed corners featured on the mid-eighteenth century trade card advertising 'Newest Fashion Gilt Sconces' issued by Joseph Cox, frame-maker and gilder of St.Martin's Le Grand (see A.Heal, The London Furniture Makers, London, 1953, p.32).

A pair of closely related mirrors was sold by Polly Peck International PLC, Phillips London, 19 February 1991, lot 90 (34,500 = $68,300).