A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND DECORATED MIRROR

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The elegant George III 'Roman' style of interior decoration with figurative tablets and medallions re-used in ceilings, walls, doors and furniture after 'the manner of the ancients', was promoted during the 1760s by Hugh (Smythson) Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (d.1776) and his Rome-trained architect Robert Adam (d.1792) at both Syon House, Middlesex and Northumberland House, London. Adam brought to England the Italian artist Michaelangelo Pergolesi, who helped introduce from 1760 this dainty 'antique' ornament, and worked alongside the artist Giovanni Battista Cipriani, R.A. (d.1785). Pergolesi, in his Designs for Various Ornaments, published between 1777 and 1801, recorded that he had been assisted by other artists such as Angelica Kauffman, Cipriani, Antonio Zucchi etc.; and he dedicated No. 12 of the first volume 'To the Memory of the Late Most High and Puissant Prince, Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland'. In addition Pergolesi's, Original Designs in the Etruscan and Grotesque Style, were issued posthumously in 1814. Amongst the leading firms of japanners and papier-maché manufacturers that helped popularise this fashion was Henry Clay (d.1812), who was established in Birmingham in 1772 before transferring his business to King Street, Covent Garden, London in the 1780s.

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND DECORATED MIRROR

LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, ORIGINALLY WITH A DIFFERENT PANEL TO THE TOP, NOW INCORPORATING A LATE 18TH CENTRUY OIL-ON-COPPER PANEL

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND DECORATED MIRROR
LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, ORIGINALLY WITH A DIFFERENT PANEL TO THE TOP, NOW INCORPORATING A LATE 18TH CENTRUY OIL-ON-COPPER PANEL
The plate surmounted by a circular painted copper panel within a reverse decorated fanned oval, above a rectangular plate, redecorated and possibly adapted in size
66in. (167.5cm.) high; 43¼in. (110cm.) wide

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