A QUEEN ANNE STYLE CLEAR AND COBALT BLUE GLASS GIRANDOLE

EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE ENGRAVED PLATE EARLIER AND REUSED

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A QUEEN ANNE STYLE CLEAR AND COBALT BLUE GLASS GIRANDOLE
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE ENGRAVED PLATE EARLIER AND REUSED
The faceted rectangular plate with cobalt blue scallop frame embellished with clear flowers, the earlier upper plate with a Duke's coronet and cypher of crossed D's, with two metal candle branches
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high, 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

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. 132, fig. 161, p. 33.

Lot Essay

The Duke's crowned cypher corresponds to that on a mirror supplied to James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover (d. 1711) (see A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 303, pl. 9:56).

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