SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The oval plate within a moulded and gadrooned surround, elaborately carved and surmounted by scrolling foliage and flower heads including acanthus, husks and roses, the apron with a shell, the plate probably replaced, the backboard replaced, the six foliate clusters possibly re-used
56 x 42 in. (142 x 107 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The pier glass, with its Roman-medallion frame wrapped by Roman foliage, relates to a frame pattern invented by the Rome-trained artist William Kent (d. 1748), Master Carpenter to George II's Board of Works and Portrait Painter to the King (illustrated as the frontispiece to John Vardy's Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent, London, 1744).

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