POSSIBLY BY FELL AND NEWTON, CIRCA 1795

Details

A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION MIRRORS
POSSIBLY BY FELL AND NEWTON, CIRCA 1795
Each with rectangular mirrorplate headed by a wheat-sheaf carved-tablet, within fluted pillasters, the mirror plates possibly original and re-silvered
62 in. (157.5 cm.) high, 28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) wide

Literature

K. Tweed, ed., and R. Lynes, The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators, New York, 1964, p. 90 (illustrated in situ in The Morning Room, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan).

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Lot Essay

With its distinctive carved stiff-leaves on a burnished ground, these mirrors recall the furniture supplied in the 1790s by James Newton of Fell and Newton for the 1st Marquess of Exeter (d.1804) at Burghley House, Lincolnshire (G. Ellwood, 'James Newton', FHSJ, XXXI, 1995, figs. 4-8). Interestingly the distinctive heraldic crest or garb of a wheatsheaf is borne by several hundred families – including the Marquesses of Exeter and the Dukes of Westminster – but with the distinctive garland, these mirrors are perhaps closest to the crest of the Zachary family of Arley Hall, Worcestershire.

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