Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
A PAIR OF VENETIAN GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
Lot 7

A PAIR OF VENETIAN GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS

CIRCA 1830

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 9,375

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A PAIR OF VENETIAN GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
CIRCA 1830
The plates etched with figures of Proserpina and Pluto, minor losses, lacking candle-arms, re-gilt
31 in. (80 cm.) high; 18 in. (47.5 cm.) wide (2)

Purchased by John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) in July 1860 from Annoot & Gale, 16 Old Bond Street:- 'To 3 carved & gilt old Venetian girandoles with engraved silvered plates of glass...£24', for Spencer House, London, and by descent there.
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), removed by him to Althorp, Northamptonshire, circa 1926.

Specialist note

Charles Annoot traded as Annoot and Gale from 1854 to 1862 at 16 Old Bond Street, and was an exhibitor at the 1862 Exhibition held in the South Kensington Museum.