PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER GLASS
PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY
The later oval plate within a moulded and pierced foliate surround with oak leaves and acorns and with an asymmetrical rocaille and C-scroll cresting with a sunburst, re-gilt
53 x 29 in. (136 x 74 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The Roman-medallion pier-glass, conceived in the George II 'picturesque' manner, evokes Jupiter as deity of the Elements, and the Roman concept of collegit ut spargat. Its sun-rayed and water-scalloped temple-pediment is supported by Jupiter's sacred oak, which issues from reeds and a cartouched water-pouring urn. Such an urn, together with a related pediment, feature in a pattern in Matthias Lock's Six Sconces, 1744 (pl. 4).

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