ID 1027449
Lot 32 | A GEORGE II SILVER, SILVERED-BRONZE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TABLE MIRROR
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
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 |
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| Medium: | Gilding, Silver, Shell |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Gilding, Silver, Shell |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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