BY JONATHAN ANDERSON AND JOSHUA PERRY, CIRCA 1820-1830

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A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD PIER GLASS
BY JONATHAN ANDERSON AND JOSHUA PERRY, CIRCA 1820-1830
The rectangular plate in narrow slip and scrolled mirrored borders, the moulded frame carved with acanthus foliage with shell apron and double-shell clasp cresting, bearing the trade label of Jno. Anderson & Jos. Perry/ Paper Hanging Decorators/ House sign & furniture/ no. 59 Foregate Street/ Worcester, with printed paper label '?? MUSEUM & ART GALLERY inscribed in ink 'Lent by H. F. Davies, Elmley Castle' and chalked BZ 363, re-gilt
88 x 50 in. (224 x 127 cm.)

Provenance

Lieutenant-General Henry Fanshawe Davies (1837-1914), Park House, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire and by descent until sold
Property of the General Sir Francis Davies Will Trust; Christie's, London, 11 June 1981, lot 38.

Literature

G.Beard and C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture-makers 1660 - 1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 13.

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Lot Essay

Jonathan Anderson and Joshua Perry are recorded in S. Lewis, Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory For 1820, as successors to Mr. Churchill, presumably James Churchill, Herald Painter of the Tithing, Worcester who is listed in 1794. Anderson and Perry appear in the Directories until 1830. From 1835 the firm became J. Anderson and Son. They are listed as supplying picture frames to Westwood Park, Droitwich, Worcestershire.

PARK HOUSE, ELMLEY CASTLE, WORCESTERSHIRE
Park House, Elmley Castle in Worcestershire was an Elizabethan manor house built in the 1550s, remodelled in 1702, surrounded by medieval parkland dating back to 1234. The estate was purchased in 1822 by Colonel Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, M. P. for Worcester, a wealthy East India stock owner and distinguished veteran of the Peninsula and Waterloo. The estate remained in the family until the house was demolished in 1960, as illustrated in Sir Roy Strong, The Destruction of the Country House: 1875-1975, London, 1974.

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