A GEORGE I GILT GESSO GIRANDOLE WALL MIRRORIN THE MANNER OF JOHN BELCHIER, CIRCA 1720With a paper label verso inscribed in ink 'Willi... Gilt Mirror... Given by Right Honble... Bought June 19th 1917', the gilt brass candle arms are detachable91cm high, 50cm wideJohn Belchier (d.1753) is first listed in 1717 as a cabinet-maker at 'The Sun' on the south side of St. Paul's Church yard and described himself as 'a cabinett and lookinf glafs-maker' who 'grinds and makes all sorts of fine peer and chimnet glafses and glafs sconces.... at reasonabel rates'. His most significantmission was for John Mellor at Erddig, Wales, amission which included a state bed, pier tables, and numerous pier glasses, along with an impressive bureau-cabinet. Significantly it is Belchier's bureau cabinets that are most frequently labelled, and due to his ability to work with glass all have mirrored doors to the cabinet sections. His work at Erddig is discussed by Martin Drury, 'Early Eighteenth Century Furniture at Erddig', Apollo, July 1978, pp. 46-48, in which many of the pier-mirrors are illustrated. A closely related girandole was sold Sotheby's, Bond Street, London, Important Furniture, Silver & Ceramics, 6th July 2010, lot 8 (42,050). A further similar mirror was sold Christie's, London, The Property of a Gentleman, 22nd November 2007, lot 652 (42,500) and another Christie's, London, Property of Anne, the late Lady Hollenden, 23rd November 2006, lot 31 (50,400).