Live Auction 22125The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection: Temple of Wings
WILLIAM BURGES (1827-1881)
Lot 78

WILLIAM BURGES (1827-1881)

Dressing Mirror, Circa 1858

Closed14 June 2023

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WILLIAM BURGES (1827-1881)
Dressing Mirror, Circa 1858
ebonized walnut, inlaid with hardstones
The rectangular beveled plate surrounded by beveled roundels and shaped plates, in a molded frame between uprights with marble knobs, above a rectangular base enclosing an ebonized drawer with rouge griotte panels centered by a lapis lazuli roundel with heart-shaped pendant handle with 'JAY' cypher, the handles marked EE (possibly for the firm E & E Emanuel), on bracket feet
29 1/2 in. (75 cm.) high, 22 1/2 in. (57 cm.) wide, 9 3/4 in. (25 cm.) deep

Designed by William Burges as a wedding present for the Reverend J.A. Yatman and his wife Anna Hamilton (d.1922), The Hall, Winscombe, 1858.
Osmond Tricks, Bristol [auctioneers], 9 September 1983, part of lots 502-3.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 October 1998, lot 754.
Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E., London Residence, sold; Christie's, London, 25 November 2004, lot 151.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

The cypher on the handle is that of 'J. A. Y.' for the Reverend John Augustus Yatman, of Winscombe, brother of Herbert George Yatman of Haslemere. The latter commissioned William Burges to design a superb painted cabinet which has since become known as 'The Yatman Cabinet' (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum) in 1858. In the same year, the Reverend J. A. Yatman got married, and Burges' gifted the couple an entire painted bedroom filled with furniture, consisting of a side table, an half-tester bed, two wardrobes and the present lot. The room has since been overpainted but a side table, bed, two wardrobes and the present dressing mirror survive (J. Mordaunt Crook, loc. cit.).