拍品專文
This mirror is conceived in the George II 'Modern' or 'pittoresque' fashion first popularized in the 1750s and 1760s, and disseminated through pattern books such as Thomas Chippendale's Director in 1754 (1st edition). The design for this mirror, with its central oval plate surrounded by border plates framed by C-scrolls, foliage and garlands, relates to a drawing of circa 1760-5 by the Linnell firm, father and son, illustrated in H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell: Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, p. 114, fig. 220.