FDA-A.1047-2020
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.1047-2020
Object type
Identification
Title
Browning Mirror
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Italian carved giltwood mirror, in early 18th-century style, rectangular plate, putto on each side, two candlearms, carved with scrolling foliage
Comments
Literature: The Brownings Collections: A Reconstruction, p. 503, no. H0401.
H0401 Mirror. Large, carved wood gilt, frame of scroll design with 2 amorini at sides, each supporting 2 candle branches; 4 ft. 8 in. high x 4 ft. 2 in.; used at Casa Guidi. Illustrated in Browning Collection, 15, facing p. 112.
See also H0047.2 Browning Collection, lot 1312, purchased by Sotheran. See also H0047.2 Browning, E.B. Mirror and dining-room chair. Two ink sketches, a mirror (see H0401) and a dining-room chair.
H0401 Mirror. Large, carved wood gilt, frame of scroll design with 2 amorini at sides, each supporting 2 candle branches; 4 ft. 8 in. high x 4 ft. 2 in.; used at Casa Guidi. Illustrated in Browning Collection, 15, facing p. 112.
See also H0047.2 Browning Collection, lot 1312, purchased by Sotheran. See also H0047.2 Browning, E.B. Mirror and dining-room chair. Two ink sketches, a mirror (see H0401) and a dining-room chair.
Description
Age
1850-1900
Dimensions
height (actual size): 1340mm
width (actual size): 1100mm
depth (actual size): 220mm
width (actual size): 1100mm
depth (actual size): 220mm
Material
gilding
wood
wood
Materials & techniques note
giltwood
Physical description
Italian carved giltwood mirror; in Italian early 18th-century style, with a rectangular plate surmounted by a scrolling leaf carved cresting with trailing foliage, with a putto at each side supporting two candlearms in the form of trumpets, the whole carved with C-scrolls and boldly scrolling foliage
Production
Date
1850-1900
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 - 29 June 1861) and Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889), Casa Guidi, Florence, Italy; by descent to Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, known as Pen Browning; sold through 'The Browning Collections: Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Drawings & Prints; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; Books … the Property of R.W. Barrett Browning, Esq.', Sotheby's, London, 1913 (Lot 1312); from which sale purchased by Sotheran; sold through Sotheby's, London, 29th June 1923 (Lot 91); from which sale purchased by Muriel and Betty Edwards; by whom sold to Eton College in 1995
References
• Kelley, P. & Coley, B. (eds.), The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction, 1984 (p. 503, no. H0401)
