CIRCA 1805

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A REGENCY GILTWOOD CONVEX MIRROR
CIRCA 1805
The frame modelled as a pair of intertwined serpents issuing removable sconces with cut-glass drip-pans hung with prisms, the replaced convex plate with ebonised slip, the decoration refreshed
39 x 33 in. (99 x 83.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Mirrors with similarly entwined serpents include: a mirror sold Christie's, New York, 7 April 2006, lot 262 ($14,400 inc. prem.). A mirror of this model bore the trade label of S. Lindsay, 45 Lower Strafford Street, Dublin, and was included in an exhibition of Irish Georgian Furniture, Johnston Antiques, Dublin, 2000, no. 16, later sold Christie's, New York, 30 April 2007, lot 187 ($30,000). Another related mirror was photographed in the parlour at Stanton Harcour Parsonage, Oxfordshire (J. Fowler, J. Cornforth, English Decoration in the 18th Century, London, 1978, p. 193, fig. 177). A further example sold Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lot 61 ($11,250 inc. prem.).

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