拍品专文
Papplewick Hall was built in the 1780s by the Hon. Frederick Montagu (1733-1800), a lifelong bachelor who retreated to its neoclassical splendor after retiring from politics in 1790. The house descended in the Montagu family until debts forced them to sell it after World War I, and it was bought by Claude and Ethel Chadburn in 1919. The couple added a ground-floor billiard room extension, and this mirror was probably acquired by the Chadburns during their refurbishment of Papplewick in the 20th century.