A GEORGE II SILVER, SILVERED-BRONZE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TABLE MIRROR - photo 1
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A GEORGE II SILVER, SILVERED-BRONZE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TABLE MIRROR

Starting price
$ 30 000
Auction dateClassic
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -04:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
USA, New York
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ID 1027449
Lot 32 | A GEORGE II SILVER, SILVERED-BRONZE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TABLE MIRROR
A GEORGE II SILVER, SILVERED-BRONZE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TABLE MIRROR

BY EDWARD AMORY, CIRCA 1730

The shaped rectangular frame with scrolling foliate mounts and cast shells and flower festoons enclosing panels of mother-of-pearl, the pediment centered by a female mask, resting on two pad feet and easel support, with wood backing and two labels on the reverse, engraved on easel support Ed. AMORY Fecit

29 ¼ in. (74 cm.) high





Provenance

Acquired by Baron James de Rothschild (1792 - 1868) in 1857 from Rouzé, Paris.

Grand Hall, in the Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, Exposition de 1865, Palais de l'Industrie, Musée rétrospectif de 1867, Paris, 1867, No. 4020, where described as "Cadre de miroir en nacre de perle, monté en argent doré; au sommet, un masque de femme coiffée de plumes, d'où partent des enroulements feuillagés et des pentes de fleurs dans le genre de Bérain. Signé : E. Amory fecit. Travail français. (Commencement du XVIIIe s.) M. le bar. J. de Rothschild."



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

L. Yangzhen ed., Timepieces Collected by the Qing Emperors in the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995.

H. Roberts, Country Life, 23 November 1995.

T. Murdock in 'Time’s Melody’, Apollo, November 2013.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l'Industrie, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, Exposition de 1865.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Shell, Silver
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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