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A QUEEN ANNE GILT-GESSO PIER GLASS
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A QUEEN ANNE GILT-GESSO PIER GLASS

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details
A QUEEN ANNE GILT-GESSO PIER GLASS
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With palmette and mask cresting flanked by eagle's heads, the later arched divided plate within a moulded border, re-gilt and re-gessoed, possibly reduced in height
66½ x 28¾ in. (136 x 73 cm.)
Literature
Illustrated in H.F. Schifffer, The Mirror Book, Pennsylvania, 1983, Fig 137.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The tall bedroom pier-glass of related pattern, supplied for Erddig, Wrexham, Wales in 1723 by John Belchier of St. Paul's Church Yard, also featured a shell cartouche with a Venus mask, while the 'sconces' or pier-glasses supplied in 1720 for an adjoining saloon also incorporated eagle heads (M. Drury, 'Early Eighteenth-Century Furniture at Erddig', Apollo, July, 1978, pp. 46-55, and figs. 7 and 4).

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