Details
A giltwood mirror of George III style, the rectangular plate in a rockwork and notched surround, the C-scroll and arcaded cresting surmounted by a figure of a winged bird resting on an arch, flanked on either side by castellated towers and winged putti portrait masks, the sides carved with further bands of C-scrolls and interlaced oak foliage, the cresting with confronting C-scroll clasp, centred by a shell, bearing a paper label inscribed Turner, Carver and Gilder, Wholesale Picture Frame Manufacturer, Paradise Street, Birmingham & W. Hampton Street, Dudley, 19th Century, 68½in. x 44in. (174 x 111.5cm)
Further details
Thomas Turner, of Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, Worcestershire, is recorded as a carver, gilder, picture frame and looking glass manufacturer, circa 1840, (See: Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, The Furniture History Society, 1986, Leeds, p.912