A Pair of Monumental George III Parcel Gilt Mahogany Mirrors Height 72 x width 30 inches.

CIRCA 1760

each crest having a swan neck pediment with egg-and-dart decoration and centered by a Ho-Ho bird finial, the shaped vertical mirror plate within a conforming frame carved to show an egg-and-dart border and flowering vines.

Height 72 x width 30 inches.

Property from a Midwestern Collection Provenance: Nicholas Brown (1729-1791), of Providence, Rhode Island; To his daughter Hope (1773-1855), who married Thomas Poynton Ives (1769-1835), a successful Providence merchant, in 1792. The mirrors furnished their home, the Thomas Poynton Ives house (completed 1805), in Providence; Thence by descent through family owners of the house to their son Moses Brown Ives (1794-1857), who married Ann Allen Dorr (1810-1884); To their daughter Hope Brown Ives (1839-1909) who married Henry Grinnell Russell; To her cousin, R.H. Ives Goddard, when he inherited the Thomas Poynton Ives house in 1910/1911; To his grandchildren Sold: Sotheby's New York, January 22, 2005, Lot 829 Illustrated: Snow, Barbara, Living with Antiques: The Providence Home of Mrs. R.H. Ives Goddard, The Magazine Antiques (May 1965): p. 581

Each in overall stable, attractive condition. Scattered areas of lifting, splits and repairs to the mahogany veneer. Re-gilded by R. Wayne Reynolds, New York. Ho-Ho bird finials re-attached with modern hardware. Each back with an applied paper label from N. M. Vose Gallery in Providence, RI, stating: "The mirror frame repaired and touched up by us, August 3, 1950." Additional images available upon request.

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A Pair of Monumental George III Parcel Gilt Mahogany Mirrors Height 72 x width 30 inches.

CIRCA 1760

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