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The trade card of Francis and John Booker c. 1760. Reproduced by permission of The Irish Architectural Archive.
A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD AND GESSO MIRRORS , English, circa 1740
Height: 5 ft 9¾ in; 177.5 cm
Width: 2 ft 11¼ in; 89.5 cm
Width: 2 ft 11¼ in; 89.5 cm
4443241
£100,000 +
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Note: The mirrors retain the original bevelled mirror plates. The gilding has been refreshed. These mirrors have certain features which are in a design by William Jones in The Gentleman...
Note: The mirrors retain the original bevelled mirror plates. The gilding has been refreshed.
These mirrors have certain features which are in a design by William Jones in The Gentleman or Builders Companion, 1739.
Provenance
Jeremy Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, USA.
Literature
The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, 2007, pp. 140-46.
Christie’s, ‘Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’, sale catalogue, New York, 27 October 2015, pp. 62-3, lot 73.
Illustrated:
Advertised by Jeremy Ltd in The Connoisseur, July 1970.
Herbert Schiffer, The Mirror Book: English, American and European, 1997, p. 86, fig. 186
