A George III giltwood oval mirror circa 1770

the oval plate within gadrooned frame carved with rocaille and surmounted by a honeysuckle flower and acnthus leaf cresting with pendant husks.

Overall good condition; re-gilded; later mirror plate; carving is crisp and fine, the whole with good proportions and very minor nicks and wear to gilding.
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This mirror with its large honeysuckle flower head cresting and pendant husks is similar to a design for a pier glass of 1767 by John Linnell, a pair of which he supplied to Sir Rowland and Lady Winn at Nostell Priory (illustrated, C. Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, New York, 1978, vol. II, p. 154 figs. 281, 282).  The form is similar to two designs for pier-glasses by John Linnell, circa 1770 supplied to William Mostyn Owen, Esq. for his family seat, Woodhouse, Shropshire (illustrated, H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, New York, 1980, p. 103, fig. 197); the other is a pen and ink sketch of a table surmounted by a pier glass of 1765 (Ibid, 150, fig. 294). Linnell often made use of the gadrooned inner border as well as with long pendant husks.  The former drawing has an apron which is very similar to the apron of the present mirror.  Linnell did make use of the honeysuckle flower motif as seen in a on a cresting for a rectangular mirror in a sketch of 1776 (Ibid, p. 103, fig. 199)