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A QUEEN ANNE GREEN JAPANNED PIER MIRROR

england , circa 1710

A very fine and rare Queen Anne green and gilt chinoiserie japanned pier mirror. The pierced cresting and cushion with particularly fine gilded chinoiserie decoration on a rare green japanned background. The original divided mirror plates with bevelled edge.  In particularly fine original condition.

Provenance

With Norman Adams, London, October 1972
Private Collection UK
With Ronald Phillips, London, 2007
Private Collection UK
 

Stock number

R05.95
Height: 60 in (152.5 cm)
Width: 22¹/₂ in (57 cm)
For comparison, a pair of similar pier-glasses formerly in the important collection of Percival Griffiths - see R.W.Symonds, English Furniture from Charles Ii to George II, London, 1929, p. 284, fig. 227
C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 412
Ronald Phillips, Antique English Furniture 2007, p.244
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