BY AGRELL AND THORPE, SAN FRANCISCO, 1996, AFTER A DESIGN BY LOCK AND COPLAND

Details

A GEORGE II STYLE GILTWOOD FIRE SURROUND AND OVERMANTEL MIRROR
BY AGRELL AND THORPE, SAN FRANCISCO, 1996, AFTER A DESIGN BY LOCK AND COPLAND
The fire surround exuberantly carved with C-scrolls, acanthus, dripping rockwork and scrolling foliage, the overmantel designed in the Chinese Chippendale taste, the cresting with a Chinaman flanked by ho-ho birds, the sides with seated Chinese figures and further birds, the plates within a pierced frame carved with entwined branches, dripping rockwork and a balcony, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
The fire surround: 59 in. (150 cm.) high, 73 1/2 in. (187 cm.) wide, 7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm.) deep
The mirror: 92 1/2 in. (235 cm.) high, 72 in. (183 cm.) wide, 7 in. (18 cm.) deep

Provenance

Commissioned from Agrell & Thorpe Ltd., San Francisco, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1996.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Ann and Gordon Getty commissioned the San Francisco-based specialist British classical carving firm Agrell & Thorpe, Ltd. to execute this fire surround and overmantel mirror in the George II style. Serving as a central focal point of the Green Drawing Room, this modern masterpiece of 18th century technique closely follows a design published by Matthias Lock and Henry Copland in their 1752 pattern-book A New Book of Ornaments [V&A E.5051-1907]. At the time of its execution, Adam Thorpe was the world's youngest Master Carver, having apprenticed under Ian Agrell.

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