Details
A mid-Victorian white-painted overmantel
the oval plate within a beaded and twist surround, raised on further marginal plates and outswept scrolling corner spandrels, all the plates overpainted with autumn coloured leaves and blackberries -- 57½in. (146cm.) high, 63½in. (161cm.) wide
Provenance: HRH Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
Duchess of Teck (1833-1897) Grand-daughter of King George III
This looking glass was formerly at her home, The White Lodge, Richmond Park, where it was part of the furnishings of the Boudoir of her daughter HRH The Princess May of Teck, (1867-1953) who later became HM Queen Mary. The boudoir was decorated in white with terracotta walls and was furnished with white painted furniture and a carpet with a white centre.
Literature:
Beautiful Britain, Published by The Werner Company of Chicago, London, 1894, p.5, reproduced here.
Life in the English Country House, Mark Girouard, Yale University Press, 1978, p.288
the oval plate within a beaded and twist surround, raised on further marginal plates and outswept scrolling corner spandrels, all the plates overpainted with autumn coloured leaves and blackberries -- 57½in. (146cm.) high, 63½in. (161cm.) wide
Provenance: HRH Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
Duchess of Teck (1833-1897) Grand-daughter of King George III
This looking glass was formerly at her home, The White Lodge, Richmond Park, where it was part of the furnishings of the Boudoir of her daughter HRH The Princess May of Teck, (1867-1953) who later became HM Queen Mary. The boudoir was decorated in white with terracotta walls and was furnished with white painted furniture and a carpet with a white centre.
Literature:
Beautiful Britain, Published by The Werner Company of Chicago, London, 1894, p.5, reproduced here.
Life in the English Country House, Mark Girouard, Yale University Press, 1978, p.288