19TH CENTURY, REUSING AN EARLIER FRAME

細節

AN ENGLISH BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED MIRROR
19TH CENTURY, REUSING AN EARLIER FRAME
With rectangular bevelled plate in a cushion-moulded frame decorated with Chinese buildings and foliage, with a foliate-pierced arched cresting decorated with birds and flowers, inscribed in paint on reverse '9'
49½ x 28½ in. (126 x 72 cm.)

來源

The frame probably supplied to Thomas Coningsby (1656-1729), 1st Earl of Coningsby, for Hampton Court, Herefordshire and by descent until sold to Richard Arkwright (d. 1843) who acquired Hampton Court with many of its contents in 1810, and by descent in the Arkwright family (Hampton Court was sold in 1912).

出版

'Furniture of the XVII & XVIII Centuries - Furniture at Hampton Court, near Leominster - III', Country Life, 9 December 1911, p. 905 (illustrated).

注意事項

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拍品專文

The bedroom apartment 'pier-set' mirror has its cresting triumphantly arched and acanthus-fretted in the Louis Quatorze 'Roman' style, while its 'japanning' is in the so-called 'India' manner that imitates the late 17th century lacquer-veneered mirrors such as the 'Spencer' mirror now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp', Apollo, March, 1968, p. 179). The present pier glass may have been commissioned by Thomas Coningsby for Hampton Court, Herefordshire.
A related mirror at Hopetoun House, Scotland has been tentatively attributed to the Huguenot craftsman, John Gilbaud (A. Bowett, English Furniture from Charles II to Queen Anne, 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 15, pl. 1:4). Another mirror of the present pattern is also illustrated by Bowett, ibid, p. 296, pl. 9:46).