Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Property from a Private American Collection
A JAMES II SILVER CHINOISERIE MIRROR, CIRCA 1685
Lot Closed
April 22, 04:12 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collection
A JAMES II SILVER CHINOISERIE MIRROR, CIRCA 1685
the rectangular frame flat-chased with exotic birds and plants and applied at the angles with stylized foliage, the detachable shaped cresting flat-chased with birds and plants and centered by a fountain, all below a cartouche chased with pseudo Chinese characters, wood backed with easel support
apparently unmarked
20 x 17 ¼ in.
50.8 x 44.2 cm
Two mirrors with similar chinoiserie decoration, one maker’s mark only D in script, circa 1685 and another by Jacob Bodendick, London, 1680 were in the Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection of 17th Century English Chinoiserie Silver, sold Sotheby's New York, May 21, 1992, lots 154 and 155. The cresting of the 1685 example is also centered by a fountain; however, the jets of water issue from a trident held by a Triton seated on a dolphin.
Another example of chinoisierie decoration including a fountain is on a tankard attributed to Thomas Cooper, London, 1683 from the collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III, sold Sotheby's New York, January 19, 2019, lot 897. The two-tiered fountain has dolphin supports, a female figure stem, and dragon spout. A baroque fountain also appears on the cup and cover probably by John Ruslen, 1680, in the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths illus. David M. Mitchell op. cit p. 392.