CIRCA 1765

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD OVAL MIRROR
CIRCA 1765
The oval plate within an egg-and-dart moulded frame with a pierced scrolling foliate surround, surmounted by a basket of flowers and the apron centred by a cherub's head, formerly regilt and now dry-stripped to the earlier gilt surface, with 19th century printed gilder's label to the reverse "J.BUTTIFANT CARVER AND GILDER Printres...&c.,/... STREET, CARLISLE..No. 5S. frames of EVERY DESCRIPTION, Old frames Cleaned & Re-Gilt MAPS, PLATES, MOUNTED & VARNISHED", the basket of flowers cresting partially replaced, the mirror plate probably 19th century
64 in. (163 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This Roman medallion pier-glass decked with urns relates to Thomas Chippendale's 1760 Glass Frame patterns in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 3rd ed. 1762, (pl. 172). It relates closely, although lacking ho ho birds on either side of the basket finial, to a pier-glass which was acquired after 1951 for Cannon Hall, Yorkshire by the County Borough of Barnsley ("Cannon Hall", Guide Book, c.1970, pl.12).

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