THE EDWARD JAMES OF WEST DEAN ATLAS MIRROR, English, circa 1815
Height: 55½ in; 141 cm
Width: 35 in; 89 cm
Depth: 12 in; 30.5 cm
Width: 35 in; 89 cm
Depth: 12 in; 30.5 cm
4425941
£100,000 +
A Regency bronze painted and parcel gilt convex mirror.
Note: The mirror retains the original plate, most of the original gilding and most of the original bronze painted surface.
A Regency bronze painted and parcel gilt convex mirror.
Note: The mirror retains the original plate, most of the original gilding and most of the original bronze painted surface.
Provenance
Dolly Mann Ltd., Arlington Street, London, England;
Edward James, Monkton House, West Dean Park Estate, West Sussex, England;
Hotspur Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, England.
Literature
George Smith, A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pl. 135.
Illustrated:
Norris Wakefield, ‘A memoir of Edward James and the creation of Monkton’, Christie’s, Review of the Season, 1986, pp. 206–12.
