A CHINESE EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTED MIRROR IN A GEORGE III GILTWOOD FRAME

Lot 3
01.02.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1126394
Lot 3 | A CHINESE EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTED MIRROR IN A GEORGE III GILTWOOD FRAME
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
A CHINESE EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTED MIRROR IN A GEORGE III GILTWOOD FRAME

THE MIRROR QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760, THE FRAME CIRCA 1775



The associated mirror painting depicting a landscape scene along the Pearl River, featuring an amorous couple reading together while seated on a bench, within a rectangular giltwood frame with a guilloche-carved border, surmounted by the figure of a standing owl with outspread wings, grasping a book with one talon, flanked by a trumpet and a caduceus, all on a scrolled stand flanked by further scrolls and draped with husk-garlands, the sides carved with a pierced scrolling acanthus border, the pierced apron centered by a lyre encircled by a laurel crown and flanked by acanthus-carved scrolls, an old label adhered to the back of the owl and inscribed E4, the frame with losses



38 in. (96.5 cm.) high, 28 in. (71.1 cm.) wide





Provenance



The frame probably supplied to Lady Charlotte Lee and her husband Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount, for Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire.

By family descent at Ditchley Park.

Almost certainly acquired with the house from Arthur, 18th Viscount Dillon (1876-1934) by Ronald and Nancy Tree in 1933.
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