Lot Essay
Fire-breathing dragons of similar character, entwine an early 19th Century glass which bears the label of the carver John Smith of Swallow Street (fl. 1804-20), 'Picture Frame Maker by Appointment to The Prince of Wales', (later King George IV) (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 432, fig. 868). Such dragons were to be a popular feature of the Prince's Marine Pavillion at Brighton.