MID-18TH CENTURY, IN ITS ORIGINAL GILTWOOD FRAME, CARVED CIRCA 1758 BY WILLIAM GOULD

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A CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE-MIRROR PAINTING
MID-18TH CENTURY, IN ITS ORIGINAL GILTWOOD FRAME, CARVED CIRCA 1758 BY WILLIAM GOULD
The rectangular plate depicting a Chinese lady playing a flute, beside chrysanthemums, blossom, butterflies and birds in branches, in a pierced moulded rococo giltwood frame, the reverse inscribed in ink 'W. Gould' and 'For Mrs. Chase', regilt, traces of earlier gilding
23 x 17¼ in. (58.5 x 44 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Chase (in the 18th century).

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Lot Essay

William Gould (active 1758-1812) was apprenticed on 24 June 1758 to George Kemp, a glass-grinder, cabinet-maker, joiner and upholder. The rococo style of the frame suggests a date of the late 1750s and may have been made whilst an apprentice. Gould is recorded as a cabinet-maker, glass-grinder, upholder and looking-glass manufacturer at 78 Gracechurch Street, London. After 1796, his son William joined his firm and they were known as William Gould & Son. Their label is found on many Regency mirrors and frames as well as a pier mirror of circa 1765 (Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 360 and 504 and C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, pp. 31-32 and 230-231).

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