EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE I GILT-JAPANNED MIRROR
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular bevelled plate within a foliate decorated frame
38 ½ in. (98 cm) high; 27 ¼ in. (69 cm.) wide

Provenance

Martha Baird Rockefeller; sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, part I, 14-16 October 1971, lot 456.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 November 1987, lot 105.

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Lot Essay

Martha Baird Rockefeller (1895-1971) the second wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr, was a world-class classical pianist in the 1920s before marrying John D. Rockefeller Jr in 1951. Together they engaged Mott B. Schmidt to design Hillcrest, a neo-classical mansion on the Rockefeller family estate, Kykuit in New York, where they created the ideal of American eighteenth-century taste.

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