A George II carved giltwood wall mirror, circa 1740

the boldly carved frame re-gilt and with a later mirror plate

This mirror is impressive but will require remedial attention. There are losses to the later gilt surface. There are losses to some carved detail. Some movements to construction. The mirror and backboard appear to be 19th century and later.
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This mirror relates to a pair that were formerly in the collection of Sir Hugh Percy, later 1st Duke of Northumberland (1714-1786), which hung at Stanwick Park his Yorkshire seat. Illustrated and discussed, Helen, 8^th Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick, Furniture in the Collection of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Privately Published, 1930, item number 118.

The design of the building and interior decoration of this great house are associated with Lord Burlington, William Kent and their circle. See a commode and bookcase sold recently, Treasures, Sotheby's London, 9 July 2014, lots 7 and 8. The mirror recalls the work of carvers Matthew Goodison and the published designs of Matthias Lock. It is a culmination stylistically of the Baroque and the Rococo, for some Lock designs which relate see Elizabeth White (ed.) Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p.325. The drawings reproduced by White (op. cit) are from Matthias Lock, Six Sconces, 1744, pls.1-6.