A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
3 More
Specified lots are being stored at Crozier Park Ro… Read more
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR

CIRCA 1790

Details
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
CIRCA 1790
The rectangular plate with border plates in a gadrooned frame, surmounted by an entablature with ribbon swags issuing scrolling foliate tendrils and surmounted by a Prince-of-Wales feathered finial within a coronet
78 ½ x 42 in. (199.5 x 106.5 cm.)
Special notice
Specified lots are being stored at Crozier Park Royal (details below) or will be removed from Christie’s, 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT by 5.00pm on the day of the sale. Christie’s will inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. If the lot has been transferred to Crozier Park Royal, it will be available for collection from 12.00pm on the second business day following the sale. Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Crozier Park Royal. All collections from Crozier Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com. If the lot remains at Christie’s, 8 King Street, it will be available for collection on any working day (not weekends) from 9.00am to 5.00pm Cancellation under the EU Consumer Rights Directive may apply to this lot. Please see here for further information.

Brought to you by

Amelia Walker
Amelia Walker Director, Specialist Head of Private & Iconic Collections

Lot Essay


The chivalric plume of ‘three-ribboned feathers’ adopted in 1780 by George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), was popularised in 1788 as an ornamental patriotic motif through Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.’s pattern-book entitled, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide, whose publication coincided with a time that the Prince was expected to act as Regent during his father’s temporary illness. The Prince’s badge featured at this period on the furnishings of his apartments at the Queen’s House, St. James’s (now Buckingham Palace). They appear, for instance, on the Prince's torcheres invoiced in January 1782 by the St. Martin’s Lane cabinet-maker William Gates (d. circa 1800), a pair of which was sold by the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Charitable Trust, removed from Old Warden Park, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, Christie's, London, 8 July 1993 lot 50 (£144,500).

More from Apter-Fredericks: 75 Years of Important English Furniture

View All
View All