AN EARLY GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR by Thomas Chippendale with later oval plate in narrow gadrooned frame encircled by bold upsweeping branches carved with flowerheads, husks and foliage, asymmetrically crossed at the top and evenly at the base, the lower section of the branches replaced, some minor restorations, re-gilt

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AN EARLY GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR by Thomas Chippendale with later oval plate in narrow gadrooned frame encircled by bold upsweeping branches carved with flowerheads, husks and foliage, asymmetrically crossed at the top and evenly at the base, the lower section of the branches replaced, some minor restorations, re-gilt
72 x 38½in. (183 x 98cm.)

Provenance

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 80

Literature

Ivan Hall, 'Newly Discovered Chippendale Drawings relating to Harewood', Leeds Art Calendar, no. 69 (1971), pp. 5-17
C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, figs. 118 and 119

Lot Essay

The design of the flower-entwined acanthus stems, which wreath the watery-gadrooned border of the oval 'medallion' frame and form an asymmetrically scrolled crest, represents a transitional phase between the curvaceous Louis XV forms illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Directors, 1754 - 63 and the Louis XVI 'arabesque' forms illustrated in his son Thomas's Sketches of Ornaments, 1779. What appears to be a manuscript design for this frame dating from circa 1765, although lacking its flower-sprays, is amongst the Chippendale drawings in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (see: Gilbert, op.cit., fig. 118)

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