Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
A PAIR OF GEORGE III CONVEX GILTWOOD MIRRORS
Lot 187

A PAIR OF GEORGE III CONVEX GILTWOOD MIRRORS

BY JOHN HUNTER, LATE 18TH CENTURY, LATER FOLIATE CARVING AND CRESTING

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 10,000

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III CONVEX GILTWOOD MIRRORS
BY JOHN HUNTER, LATE 18TH CENTURY, LATER FOLIATE CARVING AND CRESTING
One with original convex plate, each hung from ribbon-tied floral swags, re-gilt, one with later plate and lacking backboards
42 in. (106.5 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide (2)

Acquired from Kentshire Galleries, Inc., New York.
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 19 April 2001, lot 26.

Specialist note

When acquired by the present owner in 2001, one of the mirrors bore an 18th century paper label to the reverse of the backboard for 'HUNTER,/GLASS GRINDER, CARVER, GILDER,/CABINET, & FRAME MAKER/No. 44 Piccadilly,/at the Corner of Swallow Street facing,/ST. JAMES'S CHURCH'. The original plate, label and backboard to this example are now lacking.
The maker John Hunter was active at his Swallow Street address from 1779-1793. The same label is affixed to a mezzotint portrait of Sir Edward Astley published in 1771 in the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd (label reproduced in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p.269, fig. 502).