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A George I carved giltwood pier mirror in the manner of John Belchier
20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,250 inc. premium
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A George I carved giltwood pier mirror
in the manner of John Belchier
The shaped rectangular bevelled plates within a strapwork carved border and paterae carved outer border, surmounted by a stylised scrolling leaf and 'C' scroll cresting flanked by eagles heads and scrolling acanthus leaves with trailing bellflowers, regilded, 121cm high, 63cm wide, (47.5" high, 24.5" wide) .
The shaped rectangular bevelled plates within a strapwork carved border and paterae carved outer border, surmounted by a stylised scrolling leaf and 'C' scroll cresting flanked by eagles heads and scrolling acanthus leaves with trailing bellflowers, regilded, 121cm high, 63cm wide, (47.5" high, 24.5" wide) .
Footnotes
Elements of the present mirror such as the eagle heads to the cresting are paralleled on a pier glass supplied by John Belchier (d. 1753) to John Meller in 1726 for Erddig Park, Denbighshire, Wales at a cost of £50 (see R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, rev. ed., London 1946, p. 99, fig. 33 where they are erroneously attributed to Moore and Gumley).
See also P.Maquoid & R.Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol II, p.318, fig. 30 for a mirror with similar eagle heads and pierced cresting from Castle Howard, Yorks.











