Lot 132
132
The Property of
A GILTWOOD MIRROR with later shaped rectangular plate within a channelled pilaster-strip frame with acanthus capitals, the pierced cresting surmounted by a ho-ho bird upon a branch within a C-scroll and rockwork cartouche flanked by rockwork platforms to the sides, the pierced scrolling foliate and C-scroll outer-frame above a pierced apron centred by a rabbit with central acanthus-carved cabochon, restorations, regilt and with traces of earlier gilding

Details
A GILTWOOD MIRROR with later shaped rectangular plate within a channelled pilaster-strip frame with acanthus capitals, the pierced cresting surmounted by a ho-ho bird upon a branch within a C-scroll and rockwork cartouche flanked by rockwork platforms to the sides, the pierced scrolling foliate and C-scroll outer-frame above a pierced apron centred by a rabbit with central acanthus-carved cabochon, restorations, regilt and with traces of earlier gilding
54½ x 32in. (138.5 x 81.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The pattern for this frame, with its rusticated pilasters supporting a grotto-like cresting with bird-inhabited tree and asymmetrically-scrolled cartouche, is mostly inspired by Thomas Johnson's Collection of Designs, 1758, pl. 1

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