A GEORGE III GREEN-PAINTED OVAL MIRROR

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A GEORGE III GREEN-PAINTED OVAL MIRROR
The plate in a foliate and fruit-carved frame below a pierced shell and cabochon cresting, with scrolled acanthus and shell apron, dry-stripped and with traces of gilding
52¾ x 32 in. (134 x 81.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's South Kensington, 5 April 2000, lot 103 (£23,500).

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

The oval pier-glass, with festoons of fruit and flowers issuing from a bubble-embossed and fretted cartouche surmounted by the Nature deity's shell badge, relates to the George II French 'picturesque' style introduced by architects such as James Paine (d. 1789) and popularised by Matthias Lock's Six Sconces, 1744.

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