ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN BOOKER

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A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE III GILTWOOD TWO-LIGHT GIRANDOLES
Attributed to John Booker
Each with oval plate in a ribbon-twist frame surrounded by vines tied by ribbons at the apron, with two candlebranches and leaf-wrapped drip-pans and nozzles, fitted for electricity, one plate replaced, regilt with traces of an earlier layer of gilding, the branches probably Victorian
31 x 20½ in. (78.5 x 52 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly from Phineas Riall (1729-1797) of Heywood, Co. Tipperary and by descent to the Rialls of, Old Conna Hill, Co. Dublin, from the 1830s and Ballyorney, Co. Wicklow.

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Lot Essay

A related oval pier-glass wreathed by vines sacred to the festive wine-deity Bacchus, bears the label of the Looking-glass seller, John Booker of Essex Bridge, Dublin (d. 1789), sold by the late Mrs B. W. van Moppes, in these Rooms, 11 November 1999, lot 167. (The Booker family are discussed in D. FitzGerald, 'A Family of Looking-glass merchants', Country Life, 28 January 1971, pp. 195-199). Three oval pier glasses surrounded by fruiting vines are at Castletown, Co. Kildare, attributed to the Dublin carver Richard Cranfield (1713-1809) (Castletown, Guidebook, p. 10).

A further closely related pair of mirrors was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 7 July 1989, lot 54 (£11,880).

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