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Description A pair of unusual?George III style ivory and blue painted gesso and gilt mirrors
in the manner of Thomas Chippendale
the oval plates in moulded frames applied with running borders of beading, acanthus and guilloche
178cm. high, 56cm. wide
Condition Report Very decorative. Paint would benefit from a clean or through being refreshed. Losses to decorative gesso borders - and chips to some raised details.
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Literature Inventory, 1885, p. 32, both in the morning room;
Inventory, 1926, p. 26,?in the dining room;
Peter Thornton, The Furnishing of Mersham-le-Hatch, Part I,?
Apollo,?April?1970, p. 271, fig.9.
Notes The present mirrors follow Thomas Chippendale's design for 'A large oval glass in a rich carv'd frame painted blue & white' supplied on 14 October 1767 for the 'Anti-Room' at Mersham (Thornton,
op. cit., p. 270, fig. 8) and presumably belong to the group of fine and historically sensitive copies executed in the 19th century.