Details
A GEORGE II WALNUT MIRROR, with later rectangular bevelled plate in a foliate frame below an inverted breakfront swan-neck cresting carved with foliage and egg-and-dart and centred by a pierced foliate cartouche, flanked by pendant acanthus, the waved apron carved with acanthus scrolls and centred by a scallop-shell, with pendant acorn and oak-leaf sides, with giltmetal candle-branches with foliate backplates, scrolled arms and dished drip-pans and nozzles
51 x 26¾in. (130 x 68cm.)
51 x 26¾in. (130 x 68cm.)
Provenance
By repute Lord Byron
Perdival D. Griffiths, Esq., F.S.A. (d.1937)
Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq., O.B.E. (d.1942)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Perdival D. Griffiths, Esq., F.S.A. (d.1937)
Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq., O.B.E. (d.1942)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, fig. 228
R. W. Symonds, 'Furniture in the Collection of Geoffrey Blackwell', part II, Apollo, vol.xxiii, 1936, p.317, fig.vi
R. W. Symonds, 'Furniture in the Collection of Geoffrey Blackwell', part II, Apollo, vol.xxiii, 1936, p.317, fig.vi