THE PROPERTY OF MRS. H.A. DU BOULAY (Lots 125-134)
A GEORGE I GILTWOOD MIRROR

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A GEORGE I GILTWOOD MIRROR
The divided rounded arched rectangular plate with mirror-panelled surround, the moulded frame surmounted by a foliate shell cresting between scrolling acanthus and pendant husks, inscribed twice in blue chalk to the reverse '4998', the gilding refreshed, possibly previously with apron wall-lights or reduced in height, restorations, the lower plate replaced, some plates re-silvered
65½in. x 30in. (166.5cm. x 76cm.)

Lot Essay

A mirror-framed and arch-cornered pier-glass at Chevening, Kent, has a carved cresting with nymph-mask and Venus-shell badge, but this mirror's foliated shell relates more closely to that of a pier-glass supplied in the early 1720s for the principal bedroom at Erdigg, Denbighshire by John Belchier (d.1753) of St. Paul's Church Yard (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed, 1954, vol. II, p. 325, fig. 38 and R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, rev. ed., 1955, fig. 36).

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