Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 14th July 2021

Lot 795

A large late-Victorian silver-gilt easel mirror

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2800

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Description

A large late-Victorian silver-gilt easel mirror,

apparently unmarked, circa 1890,

upright shaped rectangular form, pierced and embossed foliate scroll decoration, the central cartouche initialled, but later mounted with a cherub holding a trumpet, velvet easel back, length 113.5cm.

Provenance: sold by direction of the executors of the late Sylvia Quance. From the collection of Gordon W Quance.

purchased from Graham Fothergill, Bournemouth, 26th July 1964.