Live Auction 6337Stephane Boudin at 5 Belgrave Square, Les Objets de l'Empire & Mount Kennedy, Ireland. Three Private Collections
AN IRISH GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
Lot 236

AN IRISH GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR

CIRCA 1730-40

Closed16 March 2012

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GBP 5,000

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AN IRISH GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
CIRCA 1730-40
The later plate within a moulded foliate-carved border, surmounted by a scrolled pediment centered by an acanthus leaf and flanked by a cornucopia and mask to each side, the apron centred by a helmet, repairs to gesso, re-gilt, plate replaced, originally with candle branches
45in. (114.3 cm.) high; 27in. (68.5 cm.) wide

Sotheby's London, 28 May 2009, lot 116.

Specialist note

The unusual ornament of the cornucopiae and Knight's helmet on the present mirror relates to a pair of mirrors supplied to either Sankey Winter, Archdeacon of Killala and Dean of Kildare (d. 1736) for his Dublin house, or for his brother, Francis Winter (d. 1743) and by descent in the Winter family at Agher House, Co. Meath (see Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture 2007, pl. 217).