A George III cut-glass mirror chandelier Irish circa 1790

the oval mirror with a border of faceted drops,  the chandelier with seven lights with a slender baluster stem surmounted by a canopy hung with drops above the candle arms, similarly hung, with a pendant finial below

Overall good condition. Exceptionally large. One drip-pan is a later replacement and three candle nozzles are also later. Minor chips consistent with age and use. The oval mirror plate has some marks to the silvering throughout, consistent with age.
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This girandole conforms to a distinctive Irish Georgian pattern, first introduced in 1780s, which combines the more usual `jewelled' mirror with a cut-glass chandelier of the type associated with the great glass making centres of Waterford and Cork. Similar examples have been recorded in the collections of Alfred Beit, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, the National Museum of Ireland, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford.

Another example is recorded, bearing the signature of J D Ayckboum, a German born glass-manufacturer who moved to Ireland around 1780 when legislation was passed allowing for the export of Irish glass, previously outlawed by the Excise Act of 1745.This piece was sold by Marion Johnson Wise, Sotheby`s New York, 19th October 1991, lot 350. This and other examples are discussed and illustrated in Martin Mortimer, `The Irish Mirror Chandelier', Country Life, 16 December 1971, pp.1741-42, Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, 1990, p.145 and Martin Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, 2000, pp.163, 167-8.

 The present example is rare in that the chandelier with seven lights, is exceptionally large. Most examples have only two or three lights.