SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD WALL MIRRORS
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with a foliate scroll arch broken pediment centred by a scroll cartouche, the frieze hung with floral swags, with stylised cornucopia trailing to foliate scrolls, the later plates on a stipple ground and foliate border flanked by tassle-hung drapery swags, with a scallop shell in the shaped apron below, later gilt
61in. (155cm.) high, 31in. (79cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Culloden House, Inverness
Sir James Younger, Arnsbarae, Clackmannanshire, Christie's London, 25 May 1972, lot 94.

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Lot Essay

The pier-glasses, with architectural tablet corners and ionic-scrolled temple pediments, are designed in the George II Roman fashion promoted by James Gibbs's Book of Architecture, 1728, and William Jones's The Gentleman or Builders Companion, 1739.

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