A GILTWOOD LARGE PIER MIRROR

Lot 94
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 15 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1071186
Lot 94 | A GILTWOOD LARGE PIER MIRROR
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
A GILTWOOD LARGE PIER MIRROR

EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, POSSIBLY ADAPTED AND EMBELLISHED IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The pierced cresting centred by a shell flanked by eagle's masks above a double-arched bevelled divided plate flanked by female term supports above Ionic capitals and plain framed pilasters hung with tapering husk-pendants, the base gadrooned, the cresting, figures and capitals early 18th century, the plates possibly 18th century and reused

105 in. (268 cm.) high; 46 ½ in (118 cm.) wide





Provenance

Probably Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys of Ombersley (1764-1836) and by descent.



Literature

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS, in 'The State Bedroom'.
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