A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES

The design of these girandoles fully displays the full idiom of the rococo. They are related to a number of designs from various pattern books published in the 1750s, including Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, 1754, Thomas Johnson, Twelve Girandoles, 1755, Collection of Designs, 1758, One Hundred and Fifty New Designs, 1761 and A Society of Upholsterers' Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste, circa 1765.