A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
The later rectangular bevelled plate within an eared panelled frame, the corners centred by a flowerhead and with an egg-and-dart edge, surmounted by a maiden's mask flanked by scrolling acanthus and by a broken scrolled pediment with stiff-leaf and egg-and-dart band terminating in a flowerhead, the apron centred by a scallop-shell and flanked by scrolling acanthus, the plinth to the top previously with further ornament and the flowerheads to the pediment previously with further foliage, re-gilt with traces of previous gilding
65 in. x 37 in. (165 cm. x 94 cm.)

Lot Essay

The mirror is conceived in the George II Roman manner and, with its flowered 'tabernacle' frame surmounted by flowered pediment and accompanied by a Vestal mask and Venus-shell badge, it relates to mirror patterns published in William Jones's, The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739 (pls. 41-6).
A related mirror, one of a pair, was illustrated by M. Harris and Sons in The Connoisseur, July, 1972 and another related pair was sold by the Westmoreland Museum of Art, Sotheby's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 363.

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