THE VARDY MIRROR (AL31039)
A white painted ‘looking glass’, the rectangular bevelled
edge plate within a broad flowering vine carved frame
centred by gilt palm leaves, the sides with palm leaves
encroaching from the frame onto the plate, with a
broken swan neck pediment above centred by acanthus
leaves and a large shell.
ARISTOCRATIC OPULENCE
The original mirror was commissioned by John, 1st
Earl Spencer, circa 1755 for Spencer House and is
attributable to the architect John Vardy, whose triumph
was the construction and design of Spencer House,
London
The original mirror was removed from the celebrated
Palm Room at Spencer house and placed at Althorp in
1926 where it now hangs in the South Drawing Room.
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