Lot 116
116
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR with later shaped oval plate within a pierced frame carved with scrolling foliate branches and surmounted by a pierced cresting with asymetrical reeds above a splayed pierced apron, the backboards replaced, numbered to the reverse 5133

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR with later shaped oval plate within a pierced frame carved with scrolling foliate branches and surmounted by a pierced cresting with asymetrical reeds above a splayed pierced apron, the backboards replaced, numbered to the reverse 5133
52½in. x 33¾ (134cm. x 86cm.)

Lot Essay

This ovoid mirror-frame, designed in the George III 'picturesque' style corresponds to a pattern for palm-wreathed 'convex or concave glasses' that Messrs. William Ince and John Mayhew published in their Universal System of Household Furniture 1762, pl. LXXII.

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