ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS FENTHAM

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A REGENCY GILTWOOD AND EBONISED CONVEX TWO-LIGHT MIRROR
Attributed to Thomas Fentham
The circular plate with a reeded slip and concave frame with spheres, below a scrolled acanthus cresting surmounted by an eagle with outspread wings holding swagged chains, with a pair of scrolled candle- branches with turned nozzles and foliate drip-pans, with a scrolled acanthus apron, with 'Lawrence and Hall Ltd. Harrogate' depository label on the reverse, inscribed in pencil '272 Hid & Dunbar' and with further paper label inscribed in ink 'L. S. Gaisleys'
61½ x 39 in. (156 x 99 cm.)

Provenance

L. S. Gaisleys.
Acquired by Colonel Norman Colville M.C.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This mirror closely relates to several girandole mirrors made by Thomas Fentham of The Strand. Fentham, carver, gilder, glass grinder and picture-frame maker, occupied several addresses on the Strand between 1774 and 1825. His label appears on closely related convex mirrors illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 28 and 204-205, figs. 344-347. Another convex mirror by Fentham was sold by the Executors of the late Marquess of Abergavenny, K.G., O.B.E., in these Rooms, 5 April 2001, lot 198.

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