Irish gilt mirror
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A George III Irish carved giltwood mirror
The later rectangular plate, within a moulded frame flanked by leaf sprouting boughs and S-scrolls, the pierced cresting centred by a pagoda within a cartouche flanked by scrolls and pierced rocaille, with a pierced cartouche and scroll work apron below, regilded, 70cm wide, 113cm high (27.5" wide, 44" high).
Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The design of the present mirror has affinities with two mirrors by Francis and John Booker, illustrated in The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, 2007, P. 146, pl. 198 and p. 266, pl. 243.

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