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A REGENCY CREAM-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION OVERMANTEL MIRROR
Lot 9

A REGENCY CREAM-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION OVERMANTEL MIRROR

BY THOMAS FENTHAM, CIRCA 1800

Closed17 February 2015

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A REGENCY CREAM-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION OVERMANTEL MIRROR
BY THOMAS FENTHAM, CIRCA 1800
The moulded cornice and foliate-decorated frieze above a rectangular plate flanked by reeded twin-column stiles with inset ivy leaf decoration, with partial original paper label to the reverse London / Tho. Fentham / Frame Maker & Glass Grinder / Somerset House, Strand
77 ¼ in. (196 cm.) high; 51 ¼ in. (130 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Thomas Fentham, carver, gilder, glass grinder and picture-frame maker, occupied several addresses in the Strand between 1774 and 1825. He worked from 136 The Strand between 1794-1820. His label appears on closely related pier glasses illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 200-203.