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Boston, circa 1820, retaining their original gilding and mirror plates, 72 x 40-1/2 in.
Provenance: Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York; Mr. Charles O. Smith, Jr., Moultrie, Georgia; Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, January 27, 1983, sale 5001, lot 359 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $82,500); Virginia F. White Interiors, Atlanta, Georgia; The Furnishings from Historic Iris Court: An Important Edward Vason Jones Interior
Exhibited: According to William R. Mitchell, Jr.'s book on Edward Vason Jones, these mirrors were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ( n.d.) Mitchell, William R., and Van Jones Martin. 1995. Edward Vason Jones, 1909-1980 : Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector. [Savannah, Ga.], Athens, GA: Martin-St. Martin Pub. Co. ; Distributed by the University of Georgia Press, page 125.
Two closely related mirrors, surmounted by shells rather than eagles, are illustrated in Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1999, catalog no. 12.
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Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York; Mr. Charles O. Smith, Jr., Moultrie, Georgia; Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, January 27, 1983, sale 5001, lot 359 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $82,500); Virginia F. White Interiors, Atlanta, Georgia; The Furnishings from Historic Iris Court: An Important Edward Vason Jones Interior