CIRCA 1755

Details

A GEORGE II GILTWOOD TRIPLE-PLATE OVERMANTEL MIRROR
CIRCA 1755
With a pierced foliate scrolling frame, with paper label to reverse "R.Russell Esq. messenger to Shiffnal by RA Rail", regilt in the first half 19th century, later backboards
20 x 62¾ in. (51 x 160 cm.)

Provenance

Probably supplied to Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford (d.1762) for Weston Park, Shropshire; thence by descent to
Gerald Michael Orlando Bridgeman, 6th Earl of Bradford (d.1981); until sold by the Executors, Christie's house sale, 13 & 14 May 1986, lot 318.
David Style; sold Christie's, London, 12 & 13 January 2005, lot 301.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

WESTON PARK
Weston Park, near Shifnal in Shropshire, is the seat of the Earls of Bradford. The Hall came to the Bridgeman family from the Earls of Bradford of an earlier creation. Upon the death of Thomas Newport, last Earl of his family, the eldest son of his sister, Lady Anne Newport who had married Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Bt. in 1719, succeeded to the estate and was created Henry, Baron Bradford in August 1794.

A late 17th century house, Weston is of formal and regular character, crested by a balustrade, and standing in mature formal gardens with a park of many venerable specimen trees. A Country Life article of 1897 praises the 'stately and beautiful' rooms, and the works of art and furniture it was adorned with within.

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