AFA Summer 2020

Summer 84 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Chandelier, England, 1700–1715. Elm, oak, iron, pewter, gesso, and gold leaf. Museum Purchase (1955-41). This gilt wooden chandelier was fashioned in the baroque style much popularized in Holland and England by French Huguenot designer Daniel Marot (1661–1752). Immensely talented, Marot designed rooms, furniture, upholstery, and gardens for the elite, including England’s King William III and Queen Mary. He also published his designs, including several for chandeliers. Marot’s decorative schemes, while ornate, were restrained and precise as compared with later rococo works. This chandelier combines orderly carved foliage with human faces cast in pewter. Its brilliant gold surfaces would have sparkled in sunlight during the day and reflected candlelight at night. Looking glass, possibly by Moore and Gumley, England, 1700–1720. Wood, gesso, gilding, and glass. Museum Purchase (1977-1). Monumental in scale, this looking glass may have been made in the London workshop of James Moore and John Gumley, cabinet and looking-glass makers to King George I. The carved and gilded coat of arms at the top of the frame is that of Richard Grenville and Hester Temple, who married in 1710. Records reveal that Moore produced gilt furniture for Hester’s father, Sir Richard Temple, between 1714 and 1718.