An Irish George II Giltwood Mirror
CIRCA 1745
Height: 70.5" Width: 30.25"
Inventory Number 7960-271
Price
$78,000
Description
The rectangular beveled plate within a bead-and-reel molded slip surmounted by a swan's neck pediment terminating in floral roundels and centered by a cartouche, set above finely carved cornucopiae over a cushion-molded frieze finely carved with laurel wreath decoration; the shaped apron centered by a scallop shell issuing acanthus sprays.
Condition
Mirror plate apparently original and re-silvered.
Illustrated
F. Lewis Hinckley, Queen Anne & Georgian Looking Glasses, 1987, p. 118, ill. 119.
Additional Information
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