A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER MIRRORS

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Los 447 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER MIRRORS
A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER MIRRORS

ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHIAS LOCK, CIRCA 1755

Each with cartouche form frame with a flower basket cresting flanked by ho-ho birds above a central mask within a foliate cartouche, the sides with trailing floral garlands terminating in ram’s masks above a pomegranate and a pineapple perched in bullrushes ending in a scrolled apron with a central bacchic cartouche, the border divides with floral wrapped leaves and garlands, the central plates and some border plates replaced, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

97 1/2 in. (247.5 cm.) high, 48 1/4 in. (122.5 cm.) wide





Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Robert Trevor (1706-1783), 4th Baron Trevor and 1st Viscount Hampden, Hampden House, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

Thence by descent to John Hampden Mercer Henderson, 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Sold from Hampden House, Curtis & Henson, Hamnett Raffety & Co., house sale, 17-22 April 1939, lots 1155-1156.

J. Botibol, circa 1950.

James V. Rank.

Sold by Mrs. James V. Rank; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1952, lot 128.

G. Jetley.

James A. Lewis, circa 1965.

Eric Moller, Thorncombe Park, Surrey; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1993, lot 87.



Literature

R.W. Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, p.32.

R.W. Symonds, 'English Looking-Glasses,' The Connoisseur, vol. CXXV (1950), p. 84, fig. XVI.

G. Wills, English Looking Glasses, London, 1965, p. 89, pl. 67.



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