Girandoles- pair

Object/Artifact

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Boscobel House and Gardens

Name/Title

Girandoles- pair

Entry/Object ID

2018.1 a-g - 2 a-g

Description

Opposite pair of diminutive girandoles with eagles. One eagle faces left, one eagle faces right. Eagles have chain hanging from beak with a ball on the end of the chain. Convex mirrors with candle branches. Wooden gessoed and gilded with glass drip pans, blown and cut, and glass prisms. Gilt-brass candle cups and bobeches. Convex mirror plate.

Category

Lighting

Acquisition

Accession

2018.1 a-g - 2 a-g

Source or Donor

Lila Acheson Wallace

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of funds from Lila Acheson Wallace and others, by exchange

Made/Created

Artist

Henry Marks

Date made

circa 1810

Place

Country

England

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

Signed and inscribed: Henry Marks/CARVER AND GILDER/Looking Glass and Picture Frame/Maker and General Undertaker/93 Blackman St. Boro./Bed and Window Cornices and Gold Mouldings for Rooms/Old frames Regilt, Old Glasses Re-polished & Silvered/on the lowest terms

Dimensions

Height

28-1/4 in

Width

11-1/2 in

Depth

6-1/2 in

Material

Mirror glass, Wood, Gesso, Gilding, Blown and cut glass, Metal

Condition

Notes

Minor restoration of guilding. If not original, appropriate bobeches and prisms.

Provenance

Notes

-Hirschl & Adler -Freeman's, sale November 13, 2014; lot 284 (10,000-20,000 estimate, realized $31,250) -Louis Alan Tally (Washington, D.C.), c. 1984-2014 -Robert Helyer Thayer, 1959-84. (Thayer, 1901-1984, was Asst. United States Ambassador to France from 1950-54; Minister ot Rumania 1955-58, the Asst. Secretary of State for Cultural and Educational Affairs until 1962.) -Israel Sack, Inc. (recorded on reciept dated April 17, 1959 and correspondence describing the previous owner as "an old time dealer in Philadelphia.")