THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
Third quarter 18th Century
The rectangular later plate in a rockwork and foliate-carved frame surmounted by a confronted C-scroll cartouche enclosing a lozenge, with conforming apron with pierced foliate spray, regilt, losses to carving, the reverse with paper label 'to Billiard Room/Castle'
63¼ x 37¼ in. (160.5 x 94.5 cm.)

Provenance

Bertram Wodehouse Currie (d. 1896), at either Minley Manor, Farnborough, Surrey or 1 Richmond Terrace, London and by descent.

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Lot Essay

The French-fashioned watery rocaille border of this mirror and the foliate drops derive from a pattern in Matthias Lock's Six Sconces, 1744, plate 5. The unusual feature of a stylised flowerhead in a lozenge framed by confronted C-scrolls relates to pier glasses supplied to The Earl of Dumfries for Dumfries House, by William Mathie in 1759. Two (differing) pier glasses supplied for the bedchambers at Dumfries feature St Andrew's saltire and combine Hogarthian serpentine S-scrolls and foliate drops (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, pls. 14-15).

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