THE GLASS EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, INCORPORATED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY INTO AN ARCHED GILT-COMPOSITION FRAME
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A QUEEN ANNE ENGRAVED GLASS OVERMANTEL MIRROR
THE GLASS EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, INCORPORATED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY INTO AN ARCHED GILT-COMPOSITION FRAME
The later bevelled arched upper plate engraved with the monogram AEJ for Audrey Evelyn James, above divided bevelled plates, all within engraved scallop bevel-edged border plates applied with painted card leaves and paste gems, within a fluted and leaf-tip carved gilt frame with foliate edge
48 ¼ x 65 ¾ in. (122.5 x 167 cm.)
THE GLASS EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, INCORPORATED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY INTO AN ARCHED GILT-COMPOSITION FRAME
The later bevelled arched upper plate engraved with the monogram AEJ for Audrey Evelyn James, above divided bevelled plates, all within engraved scallop bevel-edged border plates applied with painted card leaves and paste gems, within a fluted and leaf-tip carved gilt frame with foliate edge
48 ¼ x 65 ¾ in. (122.5 x 167 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired by Mrs. Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie for Julians Park by 1956 (illustrated in a watercolour sketch of the Entrance Hall by Cecil Beaton, dated 1956 - see the introduction to this catalogue).
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