Lot 8
8
A GILTWOOD MIRROR
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A GILTWOOD MIRROR

PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY AND EMBELLISHED

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A GILTWOOD MIRROR
Probably 18th century and embellished
The rectangular plate in a sandwork and echinus-moulded frame, surmounted by a triangular pediment enclosing an armorial cartouche issuing foliate scrolls, regilt, the reverse inscribed in chalk 'LENYGONS(?)' and '4597' and '4745'
58¾ x 29 in. (149 x 73.5 cm.)
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Lot Essay

The unusual arched top to the plate supporting a scalloped cartouche in a broken pediment, appears on a George II giltwood pier glass illustrated in G. Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, 1990, p. 87, fig. 83 and on another George II pier glass sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 10 July 1992, lot 68.

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