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EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A QUEEN ANNE GILT-GESSO PIER GLASS
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With arched rectangular divided bevelled plates, set in a strapwork-moulded frame, surmounted by a shaped arched cresting and stylised shell, with depository label to the reverse 'HARRIS AND SONS, HIGH HOLBORN', restorations to gesso and gilding, reverse of cresting inscribed in pencil '14/3/49' and backboard inscribed in pencil '10/9/35'
63 in. (160 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With arched rectangular divided bevelled plates, set in a strapwork-moulded frame, surmounted by a shaped arched cresting and stylised shell, with depository label to the reverse 'HARRIS AND SONS, HIGH HOLBORN', restorations to gesso and gilding, reverse of cresting inscribed in pencil '14/3/49' and backboard inscribed in pencil '10/9/35'
63 in. (160 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide
Provenance
HRH The Duchess of Kent, Christie's, London, 14 March 1947, lot 365, sold for £84 to Moss Harris.
Bought from M. Harris & Sons, 16 September 1954.
Bought from M. Harris & Sons, 16 September 1954.
Special notice
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