An Irish George II giltwood mirror, mid-18th century

The scallop shell apron coupled with the broad, flat style of carving on this mirror are characteristic of Irish mirrors in the eighteenth century (see also lot 64). For another example of this style, see James Peill and the Knight of Glin, Irish Furniture; Woodwork and Carving from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, p.260, fig. 220.