A GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR Circa 1735

Losses to gilding and gesso.

Sold, Christie's, Los Angeles, The Duquette Collections, March 12-14, 2001, lot 1560 ($215,000)

Overall good condition; most of the gesso and gilding lost; scroll to left of mask within the shell to the cresting lacking; large chip to bottom of apron;
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The present mirror concieved in the Roman / Palladian manner as championed by William Kent and Lord Burlington relates to an Apollo-headed mirror that was supplied in the 1730s for Ragley Hall, Worcestershire while its mask displayed in a feathered scalloped cartouche relates to that of a mirror supplied to the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood House. (illustrated Edwards and Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1983, vol. II, pp. 335 and 338, figs. 62 and 70)  It also relates to a mirror possibly made for Sir Richard Hoare, of Barns Elms by William Linnell and now at Stourhead (illustrated in H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol.II, p.92, fig.177). Another similar mirror  was sold at Christie's London, November 30, 2000, lot 59 (£25,000). Another surmounted by a shell cartouche with Neptune mask was sold by the late Mrs. S. Winkworth, Sotheby's, London, May 26, 1967, lot 122.