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Lot Essay
The pier-glass, conceived in the George II 'Modern' or French 'picturesque' fashion, has its flower-garlanded serpentined pilasters crowned by hermed busts of bacchic nymphs that derive from a French table pattern adapted by William Jones in his, Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739. Its pagoda-swept pediment crowned by Jupiter's eagle is featured in Matthias Lock's pattern book for carvers entitled, Six Sconces, 1744. A mirror with a similar eagle cresting was sold, anonymously, Christie's London, 30 November 2000, lot 101.
This mirror's unique frame is likely to have emanated from the same workshop as a related giltwood pier-glass in the collection of the Hon. Desmond Guiness at Leixlip Castle, Ireland (D. Guinness, Irish Houses and Castles, New York, 1971, p. 210).
This mirror's unique frame is likely to have emanated from the same workshop as a related giltwood pier-glass in the collection of the Hon. Desmond Guiness at Leixlip Castle, Ireland (D. Guinness, Irish Houses and Castles, New York, 1971, p. 210).