An Important Pair of George III Giltwood Mirrors Attributed to Thomas Chippendale Circa 1770

each shaped mirror-plate within a frame carved with beading, guilloche and leaf tips, the apron fitted for candle arms and carved with acanthus leaves and scrolling foliage above a stepped rectangular plinth.  The mirror glass replaced.

Almost certainly commissioned by Edwin Lascelles for Harewood House, Yorkshire

Thence by descent until sold by:

The Harewood Charitable Trustees, sold Christie’s, London, April 10, 1986, lot 81

Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, p. 181, fig. 32

The present pair of girandoles is closely associated with two other pairs from Harewood House which were also sold by The Harewood Trustees, April 10, 1986, lots 82 and 84. The first is of a more regular oval-form with incurved foliate scrolls at the base, also formerly issuing candle branches, and resting on rectangular tablets as in the present examples but applied with goats’ masks (Gilbert, op. cit., p. 180, fig. 321). The second, in silvered wood and also of oval-form, similarly rests on oblong tablets below sprays of laurel leaves and hung with heavy swags of flowers.