A CHARLES II GILT-GESSO AND SILVERED MIRROR

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A CHARLES II GILT-GESSO AND SILVERED MIRROR
The later rectangular plate in a laurel border and pierced foliate frame with a pair of putti holding a wreath and further putti to the sides and apron
79½ x 52 in. (202 x 132 cm.)

來源

Acquired from Mallett, London in 1979.
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 22 April 1999, lot 138.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Designed in the Louis Quatorze antique or Roman fashion, the flowered and laurel-wreathed pier glass is surmounted by wreath-bearing cherubs, while their companions emerge at the centres of the sides and base. The fashion was later popularised by Cornelius Gole's pattern book A New Book of Ornaments Useful to all Artists, 1704. A related frame, richly fretted with cherubs and an armorial cartouche, is displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (see G. Wills, English Looking-Glasses, New York, 1965, p.65 pl. 11).