A PAIR OF GEORGE I CARVED GILTWOOD AND GESSO MIRRORS

A PAIR OF GEORGE I CARVED GILTWOOD AND GESSO MIRRORS
English, circa 1720
Height: 57 in; 145 cm
Width: 25¾ in; 65.5 cm
Depth: 9 in; 23 cm
REF No. 4421641
Price Range: £100,000.00 +
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An outstanding and very rare pair of George I carved and gilt gesso mirrors retaining their original gilding, with arched bevelled plates within bevelled mirror borders, having a scrolled broken pediment centred by a later crest of a rampant lion, and with aprons decorated with acanthus leaves and flowering plants upon a pounced ground, having later scrolled glass candle arms.
Note: Retaining one original and having one 18th century replaced bevelled centre plate. The lion crestings are of a later date.

Literature: R. W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, 1955, p. 152, fig. 207.
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, 1990, p. 74, pl. 44.