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A GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR
The central oval plate in a C-scroll slip surrounded by a shaped mirrored border with rockwork, C-scrolls, pilasters and acanthus scrolls, surmounted by a music trophy, with a rockwork cresting, the sides with a bull and a stag, above a C-scroll shaped apron, the apron centred by a stylised C-scroll cartouche, the gilding with a lacquered surface, minor losses
96½ in. x 81 in. (245 cm. x 206 cm.)
The central oval plate in a C-scroll slip surrounded by a shaped mirrored border with rockwork, C-scrolls, pilasters and acanthus scrolls, surmounted by a music trophy, with a rockwork cresting, the sides with a bull and a stag, above a C-scroll shaped apron, the apron centred by a stylised C-scroll cartouche, the gilding with a lacquered surface, minor losses
96½ in. x 81 in. (245 cm. x 206 cm.)
Provenance
By repute the 1st Earl of Halifax, Hickleton Hall.
Sale room notice
Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire was built by James Paine for Godfrey Wentworth in the later 1740s, and enlarged in the later 1850s.
A related mirror at Pomfret House, London is illustrated in C. Sykes, Private Palaces, Life in the Great London Houses, p. 143.
A related mirror at Pomfret House, London is illustrated in C. Sykes, Private Palaces, Life in the Great London Houses, p. 143.