One of the pair illustrated in the 1957 Antique Dealers’ Fair and Exhibition handbook.
Wateringbury Place, Kent, 1978. Courtesy of the Winterthur Library, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRRORS, English, circa 1765
Width: 3 ft 5½ in; 105.5 cm
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Note: The frames have been re-gilded and the mercury silvered mirror plates are of later date.
These exceptionally well carved mirrors are in the manner of Thomas Chippendale and take their inspiration from a design for a pier glass frame published in 1754. The spirit of the drawing is apparent in these mirrors. The design of the ho-ho birds relates in much detail to the well documented girandoles with ho-ho birds at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Provenance
Vyse Millard Ltd., Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, until 1957;
David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent, England, until 1978;
Private collection, London, England.
Exhibitions
The Antique Dealers’ Fair and Exhibition, London, 1957, with Vyse Millard Ltd.Literature
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director, 1st edition, 1754, pl. CXLIII.
Christie’s, ‘Dumfries House’, sale catalogue, 12 July 2007, vol. I, pp. 209–15, lot 60.
Illustrated:
The Antique Dealers’ Fair and Exhibition handbook, 1957, p. 63; one of the pair illustrated.
