MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
MID-18TH CENTURY
In the Chinese taste, the rectangular plate headed by a later frieze plate contained by 'C' scrolls, the elaborate cresting with a figure holding a leafy umbrella beside a bricked ruin, inset with a later mirror plate, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
70 in. high (177.8 cm.), 37 in. (94 cm.) wide

Provenance

From the Collection of the Late Mrs. E. Chadburn, Papplewick Hall, Nottinghamshire,
Until sold; Sotheby's, Chester, Papplewick Hall, Papplewick, 29 September 1982, lot 361.
Acquired from Partridge, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1983.

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Lot Essay

Papplewick Hall was built in the 1780s by the Hon. Frederick Montagu (1733-1800), a lifelong bachelor who retreated to its neoclassical splendor after retiring from politics in 1790. The house descended in the Montagu family until debts forced them to sell it after World War I, and it was bought by Claude and Ethel Chadburn in 1919. The couple added a ground-floor billiard room extension, and this mirror was probably acquired by the Chadburns during their refurbishment of Papplewick in the 20th century.

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