Lot Details
Lot 354
Pair of William III Black-Japanned and Parcel-Gilt Pier Mirrors
Late 17th century
Each arched beveled two-part mirror plates within a black-japanned cushion-molded frame surmounted by a pierced cresting with scrolling foliage and strapwork centered by a cartouche with an Earl's coronet above a pheon and flanked by cherubs and vasiform finials. Height 57 3/4 inches (147 cm), width 22 inches (56 cm).
Provenance:
Commissioned for the Sidney family, Earls of Leicester, for either Leicester House, London, or Penhurst Place, Kent.
Mallett, London.
Upon his succession to the earldom in 1698, Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester (1649-1702), began refurbishing Leicester House, his London residence on what is now the site of Leicester Square. The crestings of a pair of mirrors, whose design is after Daniel Marot, bear the Leicester heraldic device of a cartouche containing a pheon below an Earl's coronet. A verre églomisé mirror with an identical cresting hangs in the Drawing Room at Penshurst Place in Kent, given to Sir William Sidney by Edward VI in 1552.
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