CIRCA 1760

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A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRRORS
CIRCA 1760
Each with a cartouche-shaped central plate within a frame carved and fitted with mirrored slips and scrolling foliage, each cresting centered by a large foliate clasp and with a base centered by conforming C-scrolls, the plates mostly re-used from an earlier 18th century mirror, re-gilt
85 in. (216 cm.) high, 48 in. (122 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

The M.C.P. Group, Foliejon House, Windsor; Christie's, London, 1 October 1992, lot 40.
The Collection of Lord and Lady White of Hull; Christie's, New York, 30 April 1997, lot 227.

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Lot Essay

In their elaborate design, bold proportion, distinctively exaggerated rockwork and florid exuberance, these Scottish pier-glasses can be compared to examples supplied by William Mathie (fl.1733-60) of Cockenzie to William, 5th Earl of Dumfries for the State Rooms at Dumfries House, circa 1759 (see Christie's catalogue, Dumfries House, 13 July 2007, lots 55, 80 and 240). The reuse of earlier mirror plates is seen frequently in Mathie's work, for instance in the pier glass in Lady Bute's Upstair's Bedroom (lot 240 in the Christie's catalogue cited above), at Dumfries.

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