CIRCA 1760, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS JOHNSON

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TWIN-BRANCH GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
CIRCA 1760, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS JOHNSON
Each shaped plate within AN asymmetric frame carved with rockwork, C-scrolls and dripping water, each issuing two branches with later naturalistically-cast lacquered-brass drip-pans and nozzles with later nozzle liners, the gilding refreshed
Each 31 x 13 in. (79 x 33 cm.) overall

Provenance

Acquired from Edward Hurst, September 2009.

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Lot Essay

These mirrors are conceived in the French picturesque manner popularised by 'Girandole' patterns issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, Third edition, pl. CLXXVIII, and the carver Thomas Johnson's Twelve Girandoles, 1755.

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