A PAIR OF ENGLISH GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO PIER MIRRORS

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ID 1337068
Los 1029 | A PAIR OF ENGLISH GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO PIER MIRRORS
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
A PAIR OF ENGLISH GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO PIER MIRRORS
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY AND INCORPORATING 18TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
The arched cornice centering a female mask with ostrich plumes enclosed by eagle heads and a leaf-carved tympanum and scaled ears terminating in leafy scrolls leading to a leafy scroll-shaped border and enclosing a subsidiary faceted mirror plate with female mask mounts and leaf-carved slip frame enclosing a rectangular mirror plate above a shaped apron centering a shell
96 in. (243.8 cm.) high, 40 in. (101.6 cm.) wide




Provenance

The Collection of Dame Barbara Cartland (1901-2000);
By descent to her daughter Raine, The Viscountess Lewisham (later Countess Spencer).
With Stair & Company Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above in 1985.



Literature

A. Coleridge, 'Furniture in the Collection of Viscount and Viscountess Lewisham', Connoisseur, November 1962, p. 147., fig. 12.
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