Furniture and Works of Art - 8th January 2015
Lot 189
An early George III Irish giltwood overmantel mirror
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £7500
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Description
An early George III Irish giltwood overmantel mirror, the three shaped plates with a rocaille and scroll carved frame with rockwork and flowers, the pagoda surmount flanked by a carved cockerel and a seated squirrel eating a nut, 94 x 153.2cm.
Provenance: Lady Leconfield Petworth House, Sussex, (neé Beatrice Violet Rawson), married Charles Henry Wyndham 3rd Lord Leconfield in 1911 and by descent.
The pair to this mirror was sold Mealy's, Castlecomer, 22nd November 2005, lot 352.
See Glin and Peil, Irish Furniture, p.264 plate 237 for a similar overmantel mirror with characteristic flat carving and with squirrels.