A MONUMENTAL GERMAN ETCHED-GLASS PIER MIRROR

Lot 24
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Lot 24 | A MONUMENTAL GERMAN ETCHED-GLASS PIER MIRROR
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£ 50 000 – 80 000
A MONUMENTAL GERMAN ETCHED-GLASS PIER MIRROR
ATTRIBUTED TO SPIEGELMANUFAKTUR LOHR AM MAIN, CIRCA 1721
Finely and elaborately engraved overall, with a plumed scrolling cresting etched with arabesques, cannons and centered by a mask above the arms of Jean-Philippe-Eugène, Comte de Mérode, above a later rectangular beveled mirror plate within wide mirrored frame etched and cut with spherules and foliage, inset with panels of knights in armor, equestrian battles and allegories of war and peace, the military flags inscribed with the initials C VI for Charles VI, the reverse inscribed in yellow chalk 1201 and an old paper label inscribed 3134, some replacements to plates
132½ in. (336.5 cm.) high, 60½ in. (154 cm.) wide




Provenance

Eugène-Philippe de Merode (1674-1732), Baron de Merode, Maréchal de Camp to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.
Almost certainly acquired by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874) or his daughter Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890),
thence by descent until sold, The Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore; Sotheby's, London, 18-20 May 1977, lot 837.
Acquired from Mallett, London, in 1988.
'Property from the Collection of Mona Ackerman', The Exceptional Sale; Christie's, New York, 11 December 2014, lot 42,
where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

L. Synge, Mallett's Great English Furniture, London, 1991, p. 198.
Mentmore, Edinburgh [privately printed], 1884, Vol. II, p. 62.
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