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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILT-GESSO MIRRORS
Each with later divided, arched bevelled rounded rectangular plate engraved with flowers in the upper section and in a moulded frame with flowerhead inner border and gadrooned outer border, below a pierced swan-neck cresting with rockwork cartouche centre and carved on a pounced ground with elongated leaves, the sides with tasselled drapery and with waved apron centred by a scallop-shell, regilt, the drapery of the sides possibly of later date
70½ x 32 in. (179 x 79 cm.) (2)
Each with later divided, arched bevelled rounded rectangular plate engraved with flowers in the upper section and in a moulded frame with flowerhead inner border and gadrooned outer border, below a pierced swan-neck cresting with rockwork cartouche centre and carved on a pounced ground with elongated leaves, the sides with tasselled drapery and with waved apron centred by a scallop-shell, regilt, the drapery of the sides possibly of later date
70½ x 32 in. (179 x 79 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 7 July 1994, lot 121.
Literature
G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990, p. 81, fig. 65.
Special notice
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