LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER GLASSES
Late 18th century
Each with rectangular later bevelled plate in a stiff-leaf and beaded frame within a ribbon-tied moulded border, surmounted by scrolling foliage and leaf-wrapped urn and anthemion finial, with conforming later apron, regilt, elements from the cresting replaced, probably reduced in height, one with printed label, possibly from a sale catalogue, attached to the reverse 'By Direction of the Executors of The Late THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF LEVEN AND MELVILLE: THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF LEVEN AND MELVILLE:',
67 x 29¼ in. (170 x 74 cm.) (2)

Provenance

The Earls of Leven and Melville (according to a label on the reverse). Bought from Ossowski, 1995.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The rectangular frames, with pearled and beribboned reed borders, are embellished with acanthus scrolls and palm-flowered sacred urns in the 'Etruscan' or 'Roman columbarium' fashion popularised by the architect Robert Adam (d.1792), and featured in Mathias Lock's New Book of Frames, 1769, and Matthias Darly's Architectural Designs and Ornaments, 1769.

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