A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER-GLASSES
CIRCA 1755
Each with central divided later plates below an overhanging foliate canopy with flaming finial flanked by hoho birds, with broad mirrored borders of scrolls and elongated scrolls entwined with climbing trees and with squirrels, the base with rockwork side angles and with confronting C-scrolls filled with a foliate spray, re-gilt, the border plates largely original, the central plates probably replaced in the 19th century, replacements to the cresting and squirrel's tail of one mirror
96 x 43 in. (244 x 109 cm.) (2)
A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER-GLASSES
CIRCA 1755
Each with central divided later plates below an overhanging foliate canopy with flaming finial flanked by hoho birds, with broad mirrored borders of scrolls and elongated scrolls entwined with climbing trees and with squirrels, the base with rockwork side angles and with confronting C-scrolls filled with a foliate spray, re-gilt, the border plates largely original, the central plates probably replaced in the 19th century, replacements to the cresting and squirrel's tail of one mirror
96 x 43 in. (244 x 109 cm.) (2)