PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY AND INCORPORATING 18TH CENTURY ELEMENTS

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A PAIR OF ENGLISH GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO PIER MIRRORS
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY AND INCORPORATING 18TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
The arched cornice centering a female mask with ostrich plumes enclosed by eagle heads and a leaf-carved tympanum and scaled ears terminating in leafy scrolls leading to a leafy scroll-shaped border and enclosing a subsidiary faceted mirror plate with mask mounts and leaf-carved slip frame enclosing a rectangular mirror plate above a shaped apron centering a shell
96 in. (243.8 cm.) high, 40 in. (101.6 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Collection of Dame Barbara Cartland (1901-2000);
By descent to her daughter Raine, The Viscountess Lewisham (later Countess Spencer).
With Stair & Company Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above in 1985.

Literature

A. Coleridge, 'Furniture in the Collection of Viscount and Viscountess Lewisham', Connoisseur, November 1962, p. 147., fig. 12.

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Lot Essay

This beautiful pair of mirrors was formerly in the collection of the prolific British romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland. They descended to her only daughter, Raine McCorquodale. In 1948, Raine married the Hon. Gerald Humphry Legge. He succeeded to the courtesy title Viscount Lewisham in 1958 and became the 9th Earl of Dartmouth in 1962. The mirrors were photographed in the couple's Mayfair townhouse in November 1962 (see: A. Coleridge, Connoisseur, 1962, p. 147., fig. 12).

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