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A GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR by William Clarkson, the shaped rectangular plate within a stiff-leaf slip and florally-carved outer frame, the cresting with rockwork-carved broken pediment centred by a fruiting spray above an acanthus and rockwork clasp above a shaped scrolled apron with further foliate clasp and trade label to the reverse William Clarkson Upholder, Appraiser, Cabinet-Maker & Undertaker, At Kings Head, the Corner of Old Bedlam, Moorfields London..., restorations and regilt

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A GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR by William Clarkson, the shaped rectangular plate within a stiff-leaf slip and florally-carved outer frame, the cresting with rockwork-carved broken pediment centred by a fruiting spray above an acanthus and rockwork clasp above a shaped scrolled apron with further foliate clasp and trade label to the reverse William Clarkson Upholder, Appraiser, Cabinet-Maker & Undertaker, At Kings Head, the Corner of Old Bedlam, Moorfields London..., restorations and regilt
51¾ x 26¼in. (131.5 x 66.5cm.)

Lot Essay

There is another copy of this trade card in the Heal collection at the British Museum (see: Sir A.Heal. The London Furniture Makers, London, 1953, p.27). The label contintues that he 'Makes and Sells all Sorts of Upholstery, Cabinet Goods. viz. Four Post & other Bedsteads. wth Damask, Mohair, Moreen, Harratteen, Cheney, Cotton and Check Furnitr. Feather Beds, Blankets, Quilts, Mattresses, Counterpanes, Coverlids, and Rugs Desks and Bookcases, Chests of Drawers & c, Chairs, Ding. Card and other Tables, in Mahogony & Walnut-tree. Looking Glasses in Carv'd, Gilt & othr Frames, wth Carpets & Papr Hanggs of all sorts. NB Estates, Stocks in Trade, and Houshold (sic) Furniture, Both. Sold BY COMMISSION.
Visible on the fragmentary label attached to this mirror is a 'silver' table of similar type to lot 203 in this sale but with cluster column legs and an X-shaped stretcher. The label in Heal also shows a clothes-press of the type often associated with Giles Grendey with fielded panelled doors. It was clearly a popluar and fashionable type. Examples by Grendey himself and by Philip Bell are illustrated in Heal, op. cit., figs. 23 and 37 respectively

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