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拍品专文
The Chapter House was designed and built between 1712 and 1715 by Sir Christopher Wren (d.1723) and his son as the last part of their commission for St. Paul's Cathedral. Formerly the meeting place of the full Chapter of the Cathedral, comprising the Dean of St. Paul's, the Residentiary Canons and the Prebebendaries it also provided accommodation for the Archdeacon. The mirror was almost certainly introduced in the early 1950s when the Chapter House was undergoing repair and refurbishment having been bombed in the Second World War. Although research to date cannot corroborate the following, Oswin was the older brother of Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (d.1981), Assistant Keeper, Victoria and Albert Museum from 1932-39, and Keeper Emeritus from 1971, and Charles almost certainly assisted his brother, Oswin, on the Chapter House refurbishment in the 1950s.