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CIRCA 1755
Details
A GEORGE II GILTWOOD FIRE SURROUND
CIRCA 1755
With a molded serpentine-form cresting issuing acanthus and floral vinery centered with an open pierced cartouche with a ruffled-edge C-scroll heart-shaped cartouche, the pierced scrolling sides carved with floral vinery, lattice-work, ruffles and C-scrolls, on scrolled feet, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
56 in. (142.2 cm.) high, 64 1/2 in. (163.8 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1755
With a molded serpentine-form cresting issuing acanthus and floral vinery centered with an open pierced cartouche with a ruffled-edge C-scroll heart-shaped cartouche, the pierced scrolling sides carved with floral vinery, lattice-work, ruffles and C-scrolls, on scrolled feet, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
56 in. (142.2 cm.) high, 64 1/2 in. (163.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired from Hotspur, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1992.
Literature
The Connoisseur, May 1966, vol. 162, no. 651, pl. LXXIX.
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