AFTER A DESIGN BY JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1760

Details

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
AFTER A DESIGN BY JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1760
With later oval plate within a carved ribbon-tied rush frame, with chalk inscription A8775 to backboard
40 ½ in. (102.8 cm.) high, 29 in. (73.6 cm.) wide

Provenance

Acquired from Stair & Co., New York.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This wreathed pier glass, of Roman medallion form, is conceived in the George II picturesque or 'Modern' style and relates to a flower-entwined pier glass at Uppark, West Sussex. Such mirrors are derived from a pier glass which featured in a design of circa 1760 for a side of a room by John Linnell illustrated in H. Hayward & P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, vol. II, London, 1980, p. 115, fig. 220. A closely related white-painted pier mirror was supplied to Brownlow, 9th Earl of Exeter for Burghley House, Lincolnshire; although no specific bill remains, Exeter is known to have employed Linnell during the 1760s.

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