AN IRISH GEORGE III GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE GLASS OVAL MIRROR CHANDELIER
AN IRISH GEORGE III GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE GLASS OVAL MIRROR CHANDELIER
AN IRISH GEORGE III GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE GLASS OVAL MIRROR CHANDELIER
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AN IRISH GEORGE III GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE GLASS OVAL MIRROR CHANDELIER

THE MIRROR LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE CHANDELIER LATER

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AN IRISH GEORGE III GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE GLASS OVAL MIRROR CHANDELIER
THE MIRROR LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE CHANDELIER LATER
The mirror border with alternating glass tiles, the chandelier issuing three-branch candelabra with some 18th century glass elements, losses and replacements
29 ¼ x 18 in. (74.5 x 46 cm.)
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Please note that the second line of the description should read as follows and not as in the printed catalogue: THE MIRROR LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE CHANDELIER LATER

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Lot Essay

A similar pair of mirror chandeliers were sold Christie's London, 27 May 2010, lot 40, and a single Irish mirror chandelier, now in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford is illustrated in M. Mortimer, 'Irish Mirror Chandeliers', Country Life, 16 December 1971, fig. 4, p. 1741; M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge,2000, p. 164, figs. 101-102 and The Knight of Glin & J. Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven and London, 2007, p.269, no. 254. The latter mirror-chandelier bears the inscription of the Grafton Street, Dublin glass-cutter and retailer 'John D. Aykbowm' who, in 1800, advertised his 'New Venice' glass and crystal manufacture on the Blackrock Road, Dublin.

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