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A fine quality gilt-wood over-mantel mirror, English, circa…
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Auction Location:
Hobart
Date:
23-Oct-2011
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Description:
A fine quality gilt-wood over-mantel mirror, English, circa 1830 the anthemion decorated frieze flanked by cinquefoils, the backboard bearing the trade label of 'Buchan & Sons, / House Decorators, / and Wholesale Glass Factors, / 159 High St. Southampton. / Picture Frames Made of Every Description / and Size, and a Very Large Variety of Patterns in / Compositions and Papier Mache, to Imitate / Oak, For Prints and Drawings Constantly / Kept. Pier, Chimney, Console, Dresden, / Girandole, and Dressing Glasses. Old / Frames Re-Gilt, Window-Cornices in Great Variety. Paintings Carefully Cleaned, Lined, Repaired, and Varnished. / Tariff Prices of Every Description of / Glass, and Drawings of Looking / Glasses, and C., Forwarded By Post. / Artists and Amateurs Supplied with Material For / Painting and Drawing.', the conspicuous use of cinquefoils on the present mirror allude to the great connoisseur and collector, William Beckford (1759-1844), and to Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, the vast mansion built in partnership with the architect James Wyatt. Cinquefoils were central to the heraldry of the Hamilton family, to whom Beckford was related both through his mother, Maria Hamilton, a granddaughter of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn, and through his daughter Susan Euphemia, who in 1810 married Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton. Beckfor
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Category:
Furniture: Mirrors - Overmantlel/Wall/Consoles