A PAIR OF GEORGE II CARTON PIERRE GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
A PAIR OF GEORGE II CARTON PIERRE GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II CARTON PIERRE GIRANDOLE MIRRORS

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II CARTON PIERRE GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with divided asymmetric plate with pierced rocaille cresting, the plate centering a youth playing music within C-scroll and scrolling foliate surround issuing naturalistic candlearms, some variations to the color of the mirror plates but apparently original
52 ½ in. (133.5 cm.) high, 26 ½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide
來源
[Possibly] supplied to Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton (d. 1794) for Bolton Hall, Layburn, Yorkshire or one of his other houses including Hackwood Park, Hampshire or Grosvenor Square, London; by descent until sold,
The Property of the Lord Bolton, removed from Bolton Hall; Christie's, London, 27 November 1980, lot 14 (£3,200).
Acquired from Jeremy, Ltd., London, November, 1981.
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Jonathan Rendell
Jonathan Rendell

拍品專文

Carton pierre, similarly to papier mâché, was developed in the eighteenth century to imitate wood and stone. Various compositions of paper pulp were cast in oiled box-wood molds and lightly stove-dried (baked). Manufacturers’ recipes were jealously guarded, but analyses prove that the pulp was frequently mixed with flour, chalk, sawdust, sand and plaster and bound with wax, resin, animal glues or gum arabic. Papier mâché was often made from paper stripped from billboards while carton pierre derived from waste cardboard, and its ‘composition’ material comprised a greater ratio of plaster to paper. Two pairs of girandoles of the same design were sold Sotheby’s, Charlottesville, The Collection of Patricia Kluge, 8-9 June 2010, lots 161 and 162. A related pair of carton pierre mirrors from the collection of the Earl of Rendlesham sold Sotheby’s, New York, 16 October 2008, lot 103. The design of young boys holding birds, cages and baskets of the present lot and the abovementioned comparable girandoles almost certainly derive from contemporaneous French engravings.

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