A REGENCY GILTWOOD AND WHITE-PAINTED OVERMANTEL MIRROR by Thomas Fentham, with central convex plate in a reeded ebonised surround and rectangular fluted starburst border flanked by rectangular mirrored panels and cluster-columns with composite capitals, below a frieze of scrolling acanthus foliage centred by a roundel with an Apollo mask, below a ribbon-tied reeded inverted breakfront cornice mounted with balls, with trade label of THOMAS FENT[HAM] NO. 136, STRAND, NEAR SOMERSET HOUSE, MANUFACTURER OF LOOKING-GLASSES, CONVEX AND CONCAVE MIRRORS, AND ALL SORTS OF PICTURE AND GLASS FRAMES. GLASS FOR EXPORTATION, also inscribed in ink 795 Leathem...

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A REGENCY GILTWOOD AND WHITE-PAINTED OVERMANTEL MIRROR by Thomas Fentham, with central convex plate in a reeded ebonised surround and rectangular fluted starburst border flanked by rectangular mirrored panels and cluster-columns with composite capitals, below a frieze of scrolling acanthus foliage centred by a roundel with an Apollo mask, below a ribbon-tied reeded inverted breakfront cornice mounted with balls, with trade label of THOMAS FENT[HAM] NO. 136, STRAND, NEAR SOMERSET HOUSE, MANUFACTURER OF LOOKING-GLASSES, CONVEX AND CONCAVE MIRRORS, AND ALL SORTS OF PICTURE AND GLASS FRAMES. GLASS FOR EXPORTATION, also inscribed in ink 795 Leathem...
42 x 58in. (106.5 x 147.5cm.)

Lot Essay

Thomas Fentham is recorded 1774-1825 and at this address from 1794-1820. His trade label is recorded on mirrors throughout his working life including a convex mirror illustrated in Geoffrey Wills, English Looking-glasses, London, 1965, p.128, pl.163 (see C. Beard and C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, F.H.S., Leeds, 1986, p.296).
A small giltwood toilet mirror with an earlier label was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 14 November 1991, lot 114.

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