Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
AN EARLY GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR
Lot 39

AN EARLY GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR

CIRCA 1760

Closed19 October 2023

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AN EARLY GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR
CIRCA 1760
The pierced frame with C-scrolls, foliage and icicles with fully sculpted ho-ho birds surrounding a later divided mirror plate, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
96 in. (243.8 cm.) high, 43 in. (109.2 cm.) wide, 7 ½ in. (19.5 cm.) deep

With Mallett, London, circa 1975.
Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York, to Ann and Gordon Getty in 1976.

Specialist note


This mirror exemplifies the English ‘picturesque’ style popularized by designers such as Thomas Chippendale in his The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director (1754-1762), Thomas Johnson, and Matthias Lock, who likely supplied designs for Chippendale’s publication. The wonderfully sculptural and exotic ‘ho-ho’ birds recall those in the extraordinary rococo interiors at Claydon House, Buckinghamshire by the carver Luke Lightfoot (1722-1789).