PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF FREDERICK POKE FORMED UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF R.W.SYMONDS (LOTS 118-123)

A GEORGE I WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE I WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The bevelled rectangular plate within a carved acanthus and gadrooned surround, surmounted by a scrolled pediment centred by a cartouche above a female mask, with carved fruit and foliate trails and a serpentine apron, the cresting apparently original, the plate apparently original but possibly re-silvered circa 1855
59 ¾ x 33 in. (152 x 84 cm.)

Provenance

Claude D. Rotch, Esq., The Elms, Surrey.
Frederick Poke (d.1974), Langholm, Parkside, Wimbledon, and thence by descent

Literature

P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. I, p. 328, fig. 77
Apollo, January - June 1931, p. 200, fig. 7.
R.W Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, fig. 37.
Everybody's Weekly, 13 September 1941, pp. 8 - 9.

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Lot Essay

Claude Rotch, like his contemporary Percival Griffiths, was heavily influenced by the connoisseur R. W. Symonds. His bequest of early to mid-Georgian furniture to the Victoria and Albert Museum was described at the time of his death in 1962 as 'The most remarkable single gift of English Furniture ever presented to the Museum'. The mirror, along with many other examples from the Rotch collection, is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, among other publications.

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