ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHIAS LOCK, CIRCA 1750

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHIAS LOCK, CIRCA 1750
With pierced scrolling foliate cresting centered by a cabochon, the sides with bearded masks and the apron centered by a female mask and carved with icicles, flowers and foliate scrolls, the mirror plate replaced, with paper label to reverse printed C.H., pencil inscription Bland [?] and backboard with orange chalk B1971, inscribed in pencil to reverse Lounge Hill, the cresting and some outer elements of carving replaced, the mirror plate probably 19th century
68 in. (173 cm.) high, 35 in. (89 cm.) wide

Provenance

Acquired from Stair and Company, New York and London.

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Lot Essay

This elaborate scroll-framed pier-glass is designed in the George II 'picturesque' fashion with reeds embellished with paired scrolled herms, is derived from a 'sconce' pattern published by the carver Matthias Lock (d.1765) in his Six Sconces, 1744, pl. 4. (M. Snodin ed, Rococo; Art and design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, pl. XIII and L4). Other closely related mirrors by Lock include a pier glass with matching table supplied to the 2nd Earl Poulett for the Tapestry Room at Hinton House, Somerset (c.1735) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (D. Fitz-Gerald, Georgian Furniture, 1969, pl.40); and a pair supplied to Uppark, Sussex (Uppark: National Trust Guide Book, 1985, p. 18).

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