A George III Gilt-Decorated and Painted Pine Overmantel Mirror, circa 1801
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April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A George III Gilt-Decorated and Painted Pine Overmantel Mirror
circa 1801
30½ x 64 in. (77.5 x 157.5 cm.)
National Art Galleries, Inc., American Furniture, the Collections of King Hooper, Inc., Hyman Kaufman & Herbert Lawton, December 3-5, 1931, lot 478
Mrs. J. Insley Blair, Tuxedo Park, New York
Christie's, New York, Property from the Collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, January 21, 2006, sale 1618, lot 572
Wolf Family Collection No. 1257 (acquired from the above)
Mrs. J. Insley Blair, Tuxedo Park, New York
Christie's, New York, Property from the Collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, January 21, 2006, sale 1618, lot 572
Wolf Family Collection No. 1257 (acquired from the above)
Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley, The Wood Carver of Salem: Samuel McIntire: His Life and Work, Boston, 1916, pl. CIII, CIV, pp. 127-8
A similar overmantel mirror hung in the Pierce Nichols House in Salem, Massachusetts and is pictured in Edgar G. Miller, Jr., American Antique Furniture, pl. 1231, p. 673. Wood samples from the reverse side were sent to Harry Alden for testing and determined to be red pine.
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