A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRRORS after a Hepplewhite design, each with later oval plate in a beaded border and moulded frame below a gadrooned urn filled with wheat-ears and flowers and hung with swagged husks suspended from flowerheads, with foliate boss, one inscribed in pencil 28/2/58, the other with printed paper label of A. & N. AUX. C.S., inscribed in crayon 71, re-gilt and with later backboards

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRRORS after a Hepplewhite design, each with later oval plate in a beaded border and moulded frame below a gadrooned urn filled with wheat-ears and flowers and hung with swagged husks suspended from flowerheads, with foliate boss, one inscribed in pencil 28/2/58, the other with printed paper label of A. & N. AUX. C.S., inscribed in crayon 71, re-gilt and with later backboards
37½in. x 17in. (95cm. x 43cm.) (2)

Provenance

Bought from Biggs of Maidenhead on 1 September 1958 for #600

Literature

Country Life, 17 April 1958, M. Harris and Sons. advertisement

Lot Essay

These mirrors correspond, in a slightly simplified form, to a girandole pattern illustrated in a 'Plan of a Room, - showing the proper distribution of Furniture' in A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 1788, pls. 124-125
The type evolved from Adam designs and there is a 1775 Linnell design for a two-tier girandole of this type, to be made for Lord Ely. It is illustrated in H. Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell in the Victoria and Albert Museum', Furniture History, 1969, p. 100, fig. 100

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