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Lot Essay
This girandole conforms to a distinctive Irish Georgian pattern first introduced in the 1780s, which combines the more usual 'jewelled' mirror with a pendant chandelier. The more usual type, which includes the only known signed girandole of the group, by Aykboum, has candle-branches that hang from an urn-shaped shaft in front of the mirror plate. The present example is of the rarer type with rigid bell-husk chains supporting a circlet that appears attached to the plate and in turn supports the candle-branches.
Only one other mirror of this precise type is recorded, which was offered at Christie's on the 5 April 1973, lot 11. Its provenance was from the Warrender family, probably from Sheen Falls, Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Coincidentally, the same house had contained a pair of girandoles of the more usual type with urn-shaped shaft, that were sold at Christie's, 3 February 1972, lot 17.
An Irish oval mirror with a suspended three-branch candelabra was sold at HOK Fine Art, Dublin, 28th/29th May 2001, lot 930.
Only one other mirror of this precise type is recorded, which was offered at Christie's on the 5 April 1973, lot 11. Its provenance was from the Warrender family, probably from Sheen Falls, Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Coincidentally, the same house had contained a pair of girandoles of the more usual type with urn-shaped shaft, that were sold at Christie's, 3 February 1972, lot 17.
An Irish oval mirror with a suspended three-branch candelabra was sold at HOK Fine Art, Dublin, 28th/29th May 2001, lot 930.