Lot Essay
A similar mirror in the Lady Lever Art Gallery is illustrated in X. Brooke, Catalogue of Embroideries, 1992, p. 195.
Details
A WILLIAM AND MARY RAISED-WORK AND WHITE-METAL THREAD DRESSING-MIRROR
The later rectangular plate in a later gilded slip, in a shaped eared frame woven in wools, silks and metal thread, with a lady with a bird, snail, caterpillar, flowers and foliage to one side and a gentleman with a bird, snail, rabbit, flowers and foliage to the other side, the cresting with a native guarded city flanked on the left by a man harvesting grapes and on the other by a lady warming herself in front of a fire, the apron with mythological animals flanking a fountain, flanked on the left by a man harvesting corn and on the right by a seated lady by a basket of flowers, all on a yellow silk background, losses
24¾ in. x 21¾ in. (63 cm. x 55.5 cm.)
The later rectangular plate in a later gilded slip, in a shaped eared frame woven in wools, silks and metal thread, with a lady with a bird, snail, caterpillar, flowers and foliage to one side and a gentleman with a bird, snail, rabbit, flowers and foliage to the other side, the cresting with a native guarded city flanked on the left by a man harvesting grapes and on the other by a lady warming herself in front of a fire, the apron with mythological animals flanking a fountain, flanked on the left by a man harvesting corn and on the right by a seated lady by a basket of flowers, all on a yellow silk background, losses
24¾ in. x 21¾ in. (63 cm. x 55.5 cm.)
Provenance
Violet Trefusis (1894-1972), La Tour, St. Loup de Naud, France.
Thence by descent.
Thence by descent.
Literature
S. Roche, Mirrors, New York, pp. 128 & 9, figs. 172 & 3.