A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR with oval plate in fluted frame surmounted by a ribbon-tie and framed by berried laurel

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR with oval plate in fluted frame surmounted by a ribbon-tie and framed by berried laurel
42 x 31¼in. (107cm. x 79.5cm.)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Edwin Lascelles, later Lord Harewood (d. 1795), for the 'Lodging Rooms' at Harewood House, Yorkshire
Thence by descent to George, 7th Earl of Harewood, sold in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 79

Lot Essay

This oval 'medallion' frame is fluted in the 'antique' manner and festooned with ribbon-tied 'poetic' laurel, a motif associated with the Louis XV 'Grecian' fashion of the late 1750's. Related berried-laurel garlands appear on a pair of pier-glasses supplied by Thomas Chippendale for the Music Room at Harewood House (see: C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, fig. 289)

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