Lot 167: A CHARLES II GILTWOOD PIER MIRRORCIRCA 1680

Name: A CHARLES II GILTWOOD PIER MIRRORCIRCA 1680
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: aea1ad5342

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USApril 24, 2013

Item Overview

Description

Restorations, mirror plates replaced, later gilded.
height 5 ft. 11 in.; width 4 ft. 3 in.
180.3 cm; 129.4 cm

Literature

Possibly referred to in An Inventory of the Household Furniture belonging to the Right Hon. the Earl Brooke in Warwick Castle, 21st June, 1756 (Mss. WRO CR 1886, TN926), in the Green Damask Bedchamber, the Great Cotton Room, and the Red Room three mirrors are described: 'one large looking Glafs in a gilt and carved frame'.

Warwick Castle, Heirlooms Inventory,circa 1900, listed in the Blue Boudoir where it is described as a 'Venetian MIrror 6ft 6in by 4ft.'

Provenance

Probably Greville, 5th Baron Brooke, (d. 1676) or his brother Fulke Greville, 6th Baron Brooke, (d. 1710) Warwick Castle
Thence by descent to the Earls of Warwick
Sold, Sotheby's, London, The Sale at Syone Park, Middlesex, May 14-16, 1997, lot 16

Auction Details

Important English and European Decorative Arts

Sotheby's

April 24, 2013, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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