Mayhew & Ince - A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR

Date	1760
Period	1750-1850, 18th century
Origin	England
Medium	Giltwood
Dimensions	179 x 70 cm (70¹/₂ x 27¹/₂ inches)
Gallery	Ronald Phillips Ltd

Description
Technical

A most unusual mid 18th century Chippendale period carved giltwood mirror, retaining the original divided bevelled mirror plates within a cabochon ruffled frame applied with trailing garlands of flowers and fruit to the sides and top, having a pierced and shaped apron with open leaf clasp and crested by a large running ho-ho bird with outstretched wings and flower garland in its beak.

Note: A strikingly similar mirror with very similar bird and also hung with garlands is in the collection at Burghley, Lincolnshire, in the ‘Brown Drawing Room’. This mirror is also attributed to Mayhew and Ince, who supplied many furnishings to the house in the 18th century.

Date: 1760
Period: 1750-1850, 18th century
Origin: England
Medium: Giltwood
Dimensions: 179 x 70 cm (70¹/₂ x 27¹/₂ inches)
Provenance: Mallett & Son Ltd., London.
Private collection, USA.
Literature: Lady Victoria Leatham, Jon Culverhouse and Eric Till, Burghley, England’s Greatest Elizabethan House, 2009, p. 32.
Illustrated:
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, 1990, p. 110, pl. 128.
Lanto Synge, Mallett Millennium, 1999, p. 190, fig. 243.
Categories: Furniture