Description
An English George III-period carved oval giltwood mirror. Mid-18th century.
Flanked, in an elegantly-shaped frame, by a well-carved foliate border, incorporating crisply-carved acanthus leaf decoration and bold ‘C’ scrolls: typical of this period.
This sophisticated antique looking glass dates from the height of the eighteenth-century Rococo fashion in England.
It retains its lovely soft water gilding, and period shallow-bevelled mirror plate, with merely the lightest of foxing. In superb condition throughout.
Literature:
Ralph Edwards CBE FSA, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, Hamlyn (Fourth edition 1972) p. 365, illustration 46, for a related mirror dated 1755.
Geoffrey Wills, English Looking-glasses: A study of the Glass, Frames and Makers (1670-1820), Country Life Ltd, London (1965) p. 90, illustration 70. (Messrs Mallett & Son Ltd). Also see p. 95, illustration 83 (Messrs. John Keil Ltd)[sic].
Percy Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd, Vol. I (1904) p. 318, fig. 723.
