A fine pair of George III giltwood oval pier mirrors in the manner of Thomas Chippendale circa 1765

Each oval mirror plate within a rocaille-carved frame within an outer frame carved with acanthus leaves decorated with carved floral sprays, the whole surmounted by a ho ho bird cresting.

Apter-Fredericks, London, 2002

Overall good condition; the gilding with some areas of wear and some small chips and losses; some old repaired breaks to extremities; nicely carved; gilding re-freshed.
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The present mirror is almost identical to a manuscript design for an oval mirror frame from the Chippendale Albums in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated, C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. II, p. 77, fig. 118; see also detail of a similar pier frame from Harewood House, op. cit., p. 77, fig. 119. It corresponds to a mirror supplied by Chippendale to Edwin Lascelles, later Lord Harewood, for one of the 'lodging rooms' at Harewood House, and sold at Christie's, London, July 9, 1992, lot 50.

The inclusion of the ho-ho bird to the cresting is almost idenitcal to a mirror at Dingley Hall (illustrated Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., Woodbridge, 1983, p. 344, fig. 90).  This mirror relates more closely to two designs for a pier-glasses by John Linell of 1774 one inscribed 'Mr. Mount' (V&A E. 3497 1911), as well as a mirror in the design for a side of a room (V&A E. 312 1929) (illustrated, Helena Hayward and Pat Kirkham, William and John Linnell, vol. II, p. 102, fig. 196; p. 115, fig. 220).