A GEORGE II GILTWOOD AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED MIRROR

MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE II GILTWOOD AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED MIRROR
MID-18TH CENTURY
The later rectangular plate within a pierced foliate frame surmounted by a crest with helmeted coat-of-arms, originally a picture frame
39 in. (99 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned for the Lambe family of Trymley and later of Barnham., Suffolk.
Mrs. John E. Rovensky, Clarendon Court, Newport, Rhode Island and 1041 Fifth Avenue, New York.
The Late Mrs. John E. Rovensky [formerly Mrs Morton F. Plant]; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24-26 January 1957, lot 424.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 139, fig. 168, p. 35.

Lot Essay

The arms are probably those of Lamb, Kent, and Barham, Suffolk, ancestors of the Viscounts Melbourne. Charles Lambe, 2nd Viscount Melbourne and Prime Minister to Queen Victoria, based his arms on the above. The museum's notes indicate that brown paint was removed from the mirror following the Rovensky sale to reveal the present layer of gilding and polychrome paint.

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