George III oval giltwood mirror (c. 1770 England)

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carved giltwood

67.50cm wide    110.00cm high    (26.57 inches wide  43.31 inches high)

With Charles Lumb & Sons, Harrogate, 1972

This mirror is illustrated page 156, Fanfare for Europe The British Art Market exhibition January 1973. Sotheby Publications.

An almost identical mirror is illustrated in The Samuel Messer Collection of English furniture, Christies London, 5 December 1991, page 70, lot 50.

Very fine condition, re-gilt, later plate.

A fine George III period giltwood mirror, the oval plate in a crossed-palm frame carved with flowerheads, foliage and entwined with ribbons, the cresting with an acanthus spray entwined with opposing C-scrolls, the apron with crossed branches and C-scrolls.