拍品 57
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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR, the rectangular bevelled plate surmounted by a further shaped rectangular bevelled plate within a rockwork C-scroll and cabochon-enriched frame, the pierced cresting with central foliate-spray flanked by foliate-swags and supported by pilaster-strips, flanked by an acanthus C-scroll and Gothic fret terminating in towers, above a pierced waved acanthus and C-scroll apron, incorporating earlier bevelled plates

細節
A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR, the rectangular bevelled plate surmounted by a further shaped rectangular bevelled plate within a rockwork C-scroll and cabochon-enriched frame, the pierced cresting with central foliate-spray flanked by foliate-swags and supported by pilaster-strips, flanked by an acanthus C-scroll and Gothic fret terminating in towers, above a pierced waved acanthus and C-scroll apron, incorporating earlier bevelled plates
65¼ x 35½in. (166 x 90cm.)
來源
Almost certainly supplied to Peter Brooke (d.1783)

拍品專文

This pattern of pier-glass was largley invented in the mid-18th Century to incorporate the glass and head-glass removed from older mirrors. Its various features with rusticated Gothic pilasters, which are wrapped by serpentined acanthus-scrolls and ribbon-folds and support a watery-embossed 'cartouche' cornice with flower-festooned pediments, are typical of the 'picturesque' style illustrated by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Directors, 1754-62, to which Richard Gillow subscribed.

This is the 'pier-glass in gilt frame' recorded in the Second Drawing-Room in the 1840 Inventory