Queen Anne-style gilt wood and verre eglomise overmantel mirror, possibly by Lenygon, early 20th century, with triple plates divided by gold-colored strapwork strips, the arched frame decorated in gold on red and blue ground depicting armorial devices, animals and signs of Zodiac. This mirror seems to be a direct copy of a chimney glass circa 1700-1720 illustrated in A. Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740, Woodbridge, 2009, p. 273, pl. 6:11. Provenance: Thomas Hugh Weguelin; sold Christie's, London, 13 December 1923, lot 120; Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964; sold Christie's, New York "American Collecting in the English Tradition: Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" sale, October 27, 2015, lot 165. F. Lenygon, Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760, London, 1924, p. 209, fig. 311 (Weguelin). Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 133, fig. 162, pp. 33-34. [47 1/2" H x 70 1/4" W]. Damages and cracks to mirror plates; lot sold "as-is".

Damages and cracks to mirror plates; lot sold "as-is".