Lot 142
142
A GEORGE III OVAL GILTWOOD MIRROR with later plate within a gadrooned frame adorned with scrolling acanthus sprays and surmounted by an acanthus-enriched arched cartouche above confronting C-scrolls and rockwork, above a pierced apron centred by a stylised anthemion springing from an acanthus bud, regessoed and regilt, restorations, with numbered label to the reverse

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A GEORGE III OVAL GILTWOOD MIRROR with later plate within a gadrooned frame adorned with scrolling acanthus sprays and surmounted by an acanthus-enriched arched cartouche above confronting C-scrolls and rockwork, above a pierced apron centred by a stylised anthemion springing from an acanthus bud, regessoed and regilt, restorations, with numbered label to the reverse
42½in. (108cm.) wide; 68in. (173cm.)

Lot Essay

This oval medallion pier-glass with ribbon-twist border entwined with acanthus scrolls and pagoda-sweep pediments, as well as its Grecian palmette-spray, relates to the neo-classical mirror designs of John Linnell (d.1796) cabinet-maker of Berkeley Square dating from around 1770.

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