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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TWIN-BRANCH GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TWIN-BRANCH GIRANDOLE MIRRORS

CIRCA 1760, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS JOHNSON

Fermé14 September 2021

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TWIN-BRANCH GIRANDOLE MIRRORS
CIRCA 1760, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS JOHNSON
Each shaped plate within AN asymmetric frame carved with rockwork, C-scrolls and dripping water, each issuing two branches with later naturalistically-cast lacquered-brass drip-pans and nozzles with later nozzle liners, the gilding refreshed
Each 31 x 13 in. (79 x 33 cm.) overall

Acquired from Edward Hurst, September 2009.

Note du spécialiste

These mirrors are conceived in the French picturesque manner popularised by 'Girandole' patterns issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, Third edition, pl. CLXXVIII, and the carver Thomas Johnson's Twelve Girandoles, 1755.