CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
CIRCA 1770
Each with a wheat husk cresting and lambrequined canopy with leaf carved supports and oval mirror plates with beaded frames within flowerhead garlands supported on a waisted socle flanked by griffins on a rosette and fluted tablet hung with vine garlands against a pendant foliate apron, regilt, small replacements to carving, each vaguely stencilled 9653 (?)
56¼ in. (143 cm.) high, 24 in. (61 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

with Frank Partridge, New York, 1945.
Collection of Roger van der Straeten.

Lot Essay

The carved brackets with their Apollo griffin-guarded altars reflect the George III Roman fashion popularised by R. and J. Adam in their Works in Architecture, 1773-9, while Hepplewhite's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788 (pl.114) illustrates a related girandole pattern with oval foliage-wreathed mirror. A related laurel-wreathed girandole, dated to the mid 1770s is illustrated C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite Furniture, 1996, fig 162.

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