.jpg?w=1)
OF GEORGE I STYLE, 19TH CENTURY
Details
A PAIR OF GILT-GESSO PIER GLASSES
Of George I style, 19th Century
Each with a divided and bevelled rectangular plate with shaped top, in a foliate-moulded frame with scrolled broken pediment with egg-and-dart cornice and foliage-scrolled flowerheads flanking an acanthus-scrolled cartouche, re-gessoed and regilt, the reverses papered with 1830s evangelical newspapers, one with paper label inscribed in ink '314'
71 in. x 30 in. (182.5 cm. x 77.5 cm.) (2)
Of George I style, 19th Century
Each with a divided and bevelled rectangular plate with shaped top, in a foliate-moulded frame with scrolled broken pediment with egg-and-dart cornice and foliage-scrolled flowerheads flanking an acanthus-scrolled cartouche, re-gessoed and regilt, the reverses papered with 1830s evangelical newspapers, one with paper label inscribed in ink '314'
71 in. x 30 in. (182.5 cm. x 77.5 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 21 October 1960, lot 177.