LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS JOHNSON

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A GEORGE III STYLE GILTWOOD MIRROR
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS JOHNSON
The arched cresting centred by a squirrel above the rectangular marginal mirror panel currounded by rocaille, rockwork and C-scrolls, various losses
85½ in. (217 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The pier-glass pattern, designed in George II picturesque fashion with mirrored frame of rustic water-dripped and shrub-entwined pilasters, derives from Thomas Johnsons, Collection of Designs, 1758 (pl. 4; left side; also reissued in One Hundred and Fifty New Designs, 1761, pl. 22). Its squirrel can be related to those on mirrors, after another Johnson design, at Corsham Court, Wiltshire (see R. Edwards and M Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955 fig. 75)

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