A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO PIER-GLASSES

CIRCA 1730, POSSIBLY IRISH

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO PIER-GLASSES
CIRCA 1730, POSSIBLY IRISH
Each later rectangular plate within a gadrooned slip and incised strapwork on a pounced ground within an egg-and-dart border, below a pierced swan-neck foliate-carved cresting with flowerhead terminals and flanking an elaborate cartouche, the frieze centred by a scallop shell flanked by stylised oak leaves and tripartite motifs, the serpentine apron centred by a fleur-de-lys and with flowerheads, partially re-gessoed and re-gilt, one cartouche replaced, minor variations including one built up with later backboards, replacements to carving
70½ x 38 in. (179 x 96.5 cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

The crests of this pair of mirrors - the central cartouche flanked by broken swan-neck applied with flowerheads - as well as their shell motifs and egg-and-dart edge carving are similar to an Irish giltwood pier glass probably supplied to Rt. Hon. William Connolly (d. 1754) for Castletown House, Co. Kildare, Ireland, which hung in Lady Louisa Connolly's Boudoir (The Knight of Glin & James Peill, Irish Furniture, Yale, 2007, p. 261, fig. 223). They also share similarities with a pair of Irish George II gilt-gesso pier-glasses supplied by John Booker in 1743 to Jenico, 10th Viscount Gormanston (1707) for the saloon at Gormanston Castle, Ireland (op. cit., pp. 84-5, fig. 107).

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