A pair of George I carved giltwood and gesso mirrors. Note: The mirrors retain the original bevelled mirror plates and border glasses and virtually all the original gilding. The lion crestings and scrolled glass candle arms are of later date.
Literature:
Illustrated:
R. W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, 1955, p. 152, fig. 207.
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, 1990, p. 74, pl. 44.
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Provenance
The Moller Collection (formed under the guidance of R. W. Symonds).
Private collection, New York, USA.
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