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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT MIRROR
The later shaped rectangular bevelled plate within a foliate-carved gilt slip frame and moulded outer frame with re-entrant curved top corners, the elaborate shaped cresting with stylised foliate spray and applied c-scroll and rockwork and acanthus carving flanked by broken swan-necks carved with C-scrolls and acanthus cabochons, the pierced sides trailed with further acanthus and grapes, above a waved apron applied with acanthus and C-scrolled cabochons and with central foliate spray, with panelled back and remains of paper label
51 x 25¾ in. (130 x 65.5 cm.)
The later shaped rectangular bevelled plate within a foliate-carved gilt slip frame and moulded outer frame with re-entrant curved top corners, the elaborate shaped cresting with stylised foliate spray and applied c-scroll and rockwork and acanthus carving flanked by broken swan-necks carved with C-scrolls and acanthus cabochons, the pierced sides trailed with further acanthus and grapes, above a waved apron applied with acanthus and C-scrolled cabochons and with central foliate spray, with panelled back and remains of paper label
51 x 25¾ in. (130 x 65.5 cm.)
Provenance
Bought from Norman Adams, 18 June 1982.
Literature
C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 415
Special notice
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