AN IRISH GEORGE III OVAL CUT-GLASS MIRROR
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AN IRISH GEORGE III OVAL CUT-GLASS MIRROR

Details
AN IRISH GEORGE III OVAL CUT-GLASS MIRROR
The plate in a border of faceted rectangular beads
27¾ x 17¾ in. (70.5 x 45 cm.)
Provenance
Phillips, Bond Street.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

An almost identical Irish mirror, with glass chandelier, now in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford is illustrated in M. Mortimer, 'Irish Mirror Chandeliers', Country Life, 16 December 1971, fig. 4, p. 1741 and M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, p. 164, figs. 101-102. The latter mirror-chandelier bears the inscription of the Grafton Street, Dublin glass-cutter and retailer 'John D. Aykbowm' who, in 1800, advertised his 'New Venice' glass and crystal manufacture on the Blackrock Road, Dublin.

See also lot 79 in this sale.

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