A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GILTWOOD CONVEX MIRROR

BY WILLIAM FREEMAN

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GILTWOOD CONVEX MIRROR
By William Freeman
The circular plate in a reeded ebonised slip and moulded columnar frame with Grecian palm flowers surmounted by an associated displayed eagle with two scrolling candlebranches with turned gadrooned nozzles and gadrooned drip-pans, and cut-glass drip-pans each hung with rectangular lozenges, with paper label to the reverse 'WILLIAM FREEMAN,/NO.1,UPPER/LONDON STREET, NORWICH/CARVER, GILDER AND PRINT SELLER,ARTIST'S COLOUR MAKER,/MANUFACTURER OF LOOKING GLASSES MIRRORS AND PRINT FRAMES', restorations to the gilding, the cut-glass drip-pans possibly associated
33½ in. x 27¼ in. (85 cm. x 69 cm.)

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The eagle-born frame with its Grecian reeded and palm-flowered torus moulding corresponds to the George IV French style after the antique manner, such as the curtain-pelmet patterns provided by John Stafford, Upholsterer of Bath, for Rudolph Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, 1820. The Norwich carver, gilder and looking-glass manufacturer William Freeman is listed in London Street in the 1820s. His previous address at No. 2 London Lane, features on a labelled candelabrum-stand provided for Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, while he was in partnership with Jeremiah Freeman (d.1823), (The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 21).

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