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

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.