A GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER GLASS, English, circa 1765
Height: 6 ft 4 ¼ in; 194 cm
Width: 3 ft; 91.5 cm
Width: 3 ft; 91.5 cm
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£50,000 - £100,000
A mid 18th century Chippendale period carved giltwood rectangular mirror retaining the original divided bevelled mirror plates within a fine giltwood frame of C-scrolls and carved leaf, having an open...
A mid 18th century Chippendale period carved giltwood rectangular mirror retaining the original divided bevelled mirror plates within a fine giltwood frame of C-scrolls and carved leaf, having an open pierced apron with central cartouche and open cartouche cresting flanked by opposing ho-ho birds.
Provenance
Collection of Lord Hesketh, Easton Neston, Northamptonshire.Literature
H. Avray Tipping, ‘English Homes, Period IV', vol. II, ‘The Works of Sir John Vanbrugh and his School, 1699-1736’, 1928, pp. 119-40.
James Lees-Milne, ‘English Country Houses: Baroque, 1685-1715’, 1970, pp. 138-47.
