CIRCA 1760

Details

AN EARLY GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR
CIRCA 1760
The pierced frame with C-scrolls, foliage and icicles with fully sculpted ho-ho birds surrounding a later divided mirror plate, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
96 in. (243.8 cm.) high, 43 in. (109.2 cm.) wide, 7 ½ in. (19.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Mallett, London, circa 1975.
Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York, to Ann and Gordon Getty in 1976.

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Lot Essay

This mirror exemplifies the English ‘picturesque’ style popularized by designers such as Thomas Chippendale in his The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director (1754-1762), Thomas Johnson, and Matthias Lock, who likely supplied designs for Chippendale’s publication. The wonderfully sculptural and exotic ‘ho-ho’ birds recall those in the extraordinary rococo interiors at Claydon House, Buckinghamshire by the carver Luke Lightfoot (1722-1789).

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