A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR

The later rectangular plate within a band of ribbon-tied flowers and a sanded border with outset angles with central paterae and an egg-an-dart border, enclosing a field at the top with a drapery hung mask, the sides with fruiting oak-trails, surmounted by an overhanging pediment with dentil and egg-and-dart cornices
88in. x 49in. (223.5cm. x 124.5cm.)

Provenance

Mr. David and Lady Pamela Hicks, Britwell House, Oxfordshire, sold Sotheby's house sale, 20-22 March 1979, lot 625

Lot Essay

The 'tablet' frame, with pediment, acanthus-wrapped trusses and foliage festooned flowered corners, is designed in the George II antique or Palladian manner promoted by architects such as James Gibbs (d.1754) and William Kent (d.1748), and corresponds to a pattern popularised by Edward Hoppus's, Gentleman and Builder's Repository, 1737, pl. LIII. It's veil-festooned plaque, revealing a bearded river-god head within an acanthus-wrapped cartouche, also relates to a pattern in the Repository, pl. XLVII

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