A REGENCY GILTWOOD AND EBONIZED CONVEX MIRROR

This Regency mirror reflects the highly fashionable chinoiserie style favoured by the Prince Regent (later George IV, 1762–1830) at Carlton House, London, and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. The remarkable furniture designed for the latter included side and console tables with winged dragons, supplied in 1817 by Bailey & Sanders, and the same year, a sideboard table with winged dragon brackets by Robert Jones (RCIN nos. 197, 2603, 1817, 810, 26110), all intended to corresponded with the magnificent 'Chinese' interiors created by Frederick Crace and Robert Jones in 1817. The influence of the Pavilion was such that following a number of visits to Brighton in the 1820s, Marianne, Lady Clifford Constable, designed an elaborate dragon chair for the Chinese Room at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, which was carved in 1841 by Thomas Wilkinson-Wallis (1821-1903).