A GEORGE III CARVED AND GILT COMPOSITION MIRROR

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III CARVED AND GILT COMPOSITION MIRROR
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Surmounted by a vase issuing flowers and supported by winged serpents and scrolling foliage, the arched plate with a foliate cornice and beaded inner border, flanked by rams' heads and drapery swags, and with an apron of linked rosettes centred by a lion mask, regilt, inscribed in pencil, '5/11/49'
66½ X 40½ in. (169 X 103 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired from Partridge, 7 July 1964.

Literature

H.F. Schiffer, The Mirror Book, 1983, p.182, fig.473 (either this mirror or its pair).

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Lot Essay

This mirror recalls the oeuvre of Thomas Chippendale the Younger (d.1822) at Harewood House, and Burton Constable, Yorkshire. The antique vase and profusion of elaborate scrolls relate to engravings dated 1779 (I. Hall, 'The Engravings of Thomas Chippendale, Jnr, 1779', Furniture History Society, 1975, plates 123-127).

The pair to this mirror was sold from the collection of H. J. Joel Esq, 15 Grosvenor Square, W.1., Christies, London, 17 April 1980, lot 55 (£11,000 including premium).

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