£5,544
Auction: Five Centuries
in the form of a Chinese fretwork tea house, the pierced and scrolling pagoda cornice with grotto motifs and hung with bells above a fenced terrace, over a rectangular mirror plate flanked by Chinese figural volutes and clambering vines
Note: This mirror takes its inspiration from the door surrounds in the Chinese Room at Claydon House, Gloucestershire, which was designed and executed by the London-born woodcarver Luke Lightfoot in the mid 1700s.