POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A GILTWOOD PIER GLASS
POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY
With later rectangular plate between pierced scrolled serpentine sides, with a foliate cresting and apron, regilt
62 x 34 in. (158 x 86.5 cm.)

Provenance

Bought from Thorpe & Foster, Dorking, Surrey, 22 April 1986.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The mirror frame, flowered and fretted in the George II 'picturesque' or 'Chippendale' manner of the 1750s, relates to one at Tyttenhanger illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964 (p. 365, fig. 46).

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