Live Auction 5971An English Look - Robert Kime, Piers von Westenholz, David Bedale and James Graham-Stewart
Christie’s roundel
Lot 469

A GEORGE IV GOTHIC-REVIVAL GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR

CIRCA 1825

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 23,750

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A GEORGE IV GOTHIC-REVIVAL GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR
CIRCA 1825
With linked quatrefoils and trefoil spandrels, inscribed in chalk 'V3143', apparently original plates and gilding
72 in. (183 cm.) high; 58¼ in. (148 cm.) wide

Geoffrey Bennison, 1965.
Michael Briggs, Midford Castle, Bath.

Specialist note

Midford Castle was built in 1775 for Henry Disney Roebuck from designs by John Carter in the shape of a trefoil plan formed by three semi-circular towers conjoined in the gothic style. Michael Briggs and his wife, the author Isabel Colegate, bought Midford in 1961 and carried out extensive renovation, incorporating the chapel into the garden as a picturesque ruin.