SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILT-GESSO GIRANDOLES
Second quarter 18th Century
Each with rectangular bevelled plate in a strapwork frame surmounted a shaped cresting centred by foliage, above a serpentine apron, with two associated brass candle-branches, refreshments to the gilding, one with fragementary Salisbury depository label to the reverse 'General Mathew' 255'
46½ x 25 in. (118 x 63.5 cm.) (2)

Provenance

General Mathew.

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Lot Essay

A pair of related mirrors is illustrated in G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, pp. 78 & 101, fig. 57. The latter was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 22 April 1999, lot 142 ($46,000). A related pier glass with similar husk-carved scalloped plume and guilloche-enriched border was invoiced by John Belchier in 1723 for Erdding in Wales (R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955, p. 137, fig. 36). A closely related mirror was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 22 April 1999, lot 137.

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